Broadcast Licenses, Public Interest, and Equal Time

Corruption Media

            Pearl River      Every day there’s more drama in the Trump show.  Recently, there was a tantrum provoked by late night host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel in his monologue.  He raised questions about the purity of the recently assassinated and sainted conservative activist and organizer’s positions and the killer.  Several big swinging local affiliates of …

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US Billionaire Boom

Inequity Inflation

            Pearl River      The rigged deck of the Trump’s big bad budget bill was the terrible tradeoff that will force the poor to subsidize the rich by extending and enlarging their tax breaks and favored treatments.  Nowhere is this more evident than in the galloping growth in the list of billionaires. Sure, we are afflicted …

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McDonald’s Goes Rad on Wages

Food Industry Minimum Wage

            Pearl River        There are two “NRAs” that swing big sticks around the US, pushing bad policy for people and workers.  The dangerously effective and scandal-ridden National Rifle Association is perhaps the best known, but the National Restaurant Association, another NRA, is quieter and more comfortable on the back pages and the back rooms, …

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