jonathan and a few others, but we don't have as many reporters covering the that place, covering what mike copps is to ignore julius genachowski or anyone else. it's good to have that coverage and the people need to have that coverage. so i think that -- and this is probably a longer discussion -- but i think from some of the bad private-sector decisions that have been made and the bad public sector with traditional media that we are skating close to denying the american people the depth and breadth of information that they needed to dispatch and discourage the responsibilities as citizens and final spot, i am worried that the new media is starting down the road of traditional media. too much consultation to private sector decisions, too many bad public sector decisions. >> and i think that jonathan make will have a followup on that. but first, one more follow-up with regard to broadband. do you see if i universal service fund -- how do you see it being effected with money going towards traditional telephone services and broadband and do you see the need for increasing the usf? >> we need the un

got good folks like jonathan and a few others, but we don't have as many reporters covering what mike copps is doing or julius genachowski or anybody else. and it's good to have that coverage, and the people need to have that coverage. so i think that, and this is for a longer discussion but some of the bad private sector and public sector decisions that have been made with our media, that we are skating per perilously close to denying the public, and i am worried that new media is starting down that same road as traditional media of too much consolidation, too many bad private sector decisions, too many bad public sector decisions. >> host: and i think jonathan will have a follow up on that. first, one more follow up with regard to broadband. do you see the universal service fund, how do you see it being affected with money going toward traditional telephone services and broadband, and do you see a need for an increase in the usf? >> guest: yeah. we need to use universal service, it's a critical tool to help us reach our objectives. by no means is it the only tool that's going to get broad