Primaries are Broadcasters' Big Payday

http://alternet.org/columnists/story/73431/

Over $2 billion will be spent in the 2008 presidential race, making it by far the most expensive presidential race in American history. Almost 1/2 of the money will go to paying corporate media to air campaign ads. About 40% of campaign expenditures go to television advertising. With the corporate media charging such high amounts for the candidates to us the PUBLIC airwaves further fuels the need for candidates to raise exorbitant amounts of money.

The Fair Elections Now Act would provide media vouchers to candidates who are publicly financing, a step that would rightly give the right to use the public airwaves back to the people as opposed to our political system being used as an opportunity to maximize profit for big media.

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