Posted 9:55 AM by Gene

The problem is, Mr. Howard Stern Jr., THE MARKETPLACE ISN'T WORKING. It was THE MARKETPLACE that drove quality programming off the air in the first place, with a flood of advertising dollars tied to dubious audience-measurement schemes -- and even if you buy the notion that HBO provides quality programming, which is largely a thing of the NEWS HACK zeitgeist (and besides, once a TWXster, always a TWXster), what all its subscribers pay in one year -- $5 billion, perhaps? and your former fellow TWXsters have to divvy that up with the cable robber barons -- is a FRACTION of the $50 BILLION The American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers pays to keep junk on the air -- and we're not counting radio, awash in many more billions. And despite huge network audience declines in the last two decades, THE MONEY STILL FLOWS TO THE BIG FOUR as if nothing has happened. This is just the umpteenth version of the glibertarians' diversity schtick -- and 500 channels and nothing to watch is yet another function of a MARKETPLACE dominated by five or seven companies, and all those ad dollars.

And of course you misspell Newton Minow's name once. The more you do your TWXstering the more I think you're just a glibertarian Frank Rich who gets his inspiration trying to bring on a stroke in front of a mirror before typing. Go to daddy, little Howard, and cwy about your options. And sorry little Howie, the MARKETPLACE "worked" there too.