Love him or hate him, agree with him or not, Rush Limbaugh, on the air for 24 years today, has been a transformational figure in American media. To those who were alive and politically engaged and conservative, the media landscape on August 1, 1988 couldn’t be more different than today. There are two changes that Rush instigated: talk radio and the ideological content of major media.
Speaking at his organization's 10th Annual Access to Capital and Telecommunications Policy conference as reported at RBR.com, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council President David Honig called for a new Telecom Act that would give even more power to the Federal Communications Commission, and called for the commission to hasten the sale of unused spectrum for broadband suppliers. Honig's call for some deregulation is welcome, by contrast, but why stop there? S. T. Karnick asks.
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