Mass Media | Political Candidates Should Receive Free Television Airtime

Today we want to talk about whether the medium of free television could be used to diminish the impact of excessive money in politics and about whether it can be used, therefore, to reform our system in a way that makes it better and, ultimately, that leads to better decisions for the American people. It is now commonplace—everybody will tell you—that campaigns cost too much, and it takes too much time to raise the money, and the more money you raise from a larger number of people, the more questions will be raised about that.

Major party committees spent over 3 times as much...

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