@suzannealdrich @HopelessDemigod It was changing the broadcast station ownership rules.

Used to be you could drive across the country and pick up an entirely different set of radio stations every 50 miles. Thousands of stations were privately owned doing their own format.

It was illegal for one business to own more than seven radio transmitters or more than seven newspapers in the COUNTRY.

Then the rules changed and Clear Channel bought up all 7,000 radio stations in the country, Murdoch bought up every newspaper he could.

Now when you drive across country you can tune across the radio dial the whole way and hear the same crap no matter where you are. All the local color is gone, the local opinions, local news. "Hey, this is Jimmy at the mike. Bob Smith is selling his red tractor. Give him a call!"

I used to service little 500 watt stations like that in Wyoming and Nebraska. Now, if they exist at all, they all puke out the same programmed crap that "corporate" feeds them.

The whole thing disgusts me.