So it is time—it is long past time—for the FCC to consider and approve a set-aside, like 25 or 35 per cent of prime-time hours, for independent producers and creators. There’s just so much more creativity and genius out there than our media currently reflect. More independent programs would be a wonderful boon to diversity, localism and competition—the three building blocks of a healthy and dynamic media environment. And you know, these building blocks aren’t luxuries, nice things to have if we can afford them. Diversity, localism and competition are necessities for a thriving American media, and we can’t afford not to have them. They are essential for the quality of entertainment our citizens enjoy, and they are essential for the vitality of America’s civic dialogue—a civic dialogue that I think is in serious, serious trouble—but that’s another speech. We need these building blocks across our entire media landscape. And your FCC ought to be nourishing these all-American traits. Instead it has been busy subverting them.
Ge the full document (blech it's a Word doc so much for open standards) here.
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