Political Quotes

“the Markey amendment is really very important to this bill. I will tell you that for us to have a free Nation, for people who are going to elect those of us who are their representatives in Government, they have to have different points of views. I have had some experience in the broadcast industry for 24 years, and in fact I worked for Westinghouse, which is one of the companies who just this last week made national history in buying CBS, ABC is being bought by Disney. I am talking to my colleagues in the business. They said, look, we are already merging news rooms. You have four or five different entities, radio and TV owned by Westinghouse and by CBS, we are merging news rooms, so before as a Member of Congress or as any public servant you may have three or four different people there gathering points of view you now have one. So this is not a divergence of viewpoints. We are bringing all the viewpoints in there. We are creating information czars. We are creating a situation where a handful of people will in fact be able to control the opinions across this Nation, and what we are saying is, no, we do not want that, we want free broadcast, we want the broadcast signals which are owned by the people of this Nation, which are licensed by the FCC for these large corporations to broadcast on to continue. I urge you to support the Markey amendment.”