Americans may finally get to hear the Voice of America over the air for the first time since the network started 68 years ago. As it is, a majority of Americans have no exposure to the media operations costing them around $750 million a year. Meanwhile, cable platforms stateside carry Al Jazeera, and DirecTV carries MHz Networks, home of several international newscasts.

It would be the height of cynicism to assert the Genachowski FCC has become a propaganda machine for the wireless industry. Only the most jaded conspiracy theorist could imagine that a Web entrepreneur temporarily appointed as a government regulator would have a self-serving agenda.

When broadcasters shut down their full power analog signals a year ago, anticipation ran high as to how the public would react.