The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
