Not All Politics Is Local

November 11, 2005

If you’re looking for information about local candidates for office, you’d better not waste your time with local TV news. But one watchdog group thinks programmers can do better. The Media Access Project is asking the FCC not to renew the licenses of stations in Milwaukee and Chicago, pointing to new data showing paltry local election coverage by those stations. Bob talks to Robert Lichter, president of the group that compiled that data


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