To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Restore Our Public Airwaves to "We the People..."
Restore our public airwaves to the people of America. Media ownership should reflect the fact that women are more than half of the people of America. Media ownership should also reflect that there are large ethnic minorities who are not represented in media ownership. More diversity in media ownership.
Why is this important?
Ownership has privilege and the ownership of American media by 5 or 6 media monopolies has narrowly focused the attention of the TV and radio industry using our public airwaves on a small, thin population band of young white men between the ages of 18 and 25. Most of this media is right wing and attempts to have a more diverse political media have been reversed by large industry owners switching left or politically moderate radio talk stations into sports coverage only. At least four or five left wing talk stations on the West Coast have been switched to sports radio focusing on the 18-25 white male demographic by the industry monopolies who appear to have absolute ownership of our public airwaves. Women, minorities and those who hold political views that are not extreme right wing are shut out.