racism, had a lot of power and on the other side there were others who were more mainstream, the lowell thomas world that radio had tremendous power and then came television. television was really good, specially when we started having a news broadcast for television. and when it came to a 30 minute, that took a while and that was a big breakthrough to have news every night for 30 minutes a night, it really helped involve the american public and what was going on. but, guess what happen? in the reagan years, with the complicity of congress, we decided we were going to change that and what we did is turned everything back to the rich and powerful by consolidating the press. certain companies now own more than 1000 radio stations, multiple tv stations so what happened is that the rich and powerful in the time we were colonies until recent times, suddenly became the voice of the rich and powerful. the rich and powerful were controlling everything. it is pretty interesting. after was wrongly decided that bigger is better, the next few decades saw unprecedented consolidation and collaboratio