Free broadcast TV service is facing displacement by rhetoric, as characterized by three words--“looming spectrum crisis.” Unfortunately, most parroted of the assertions about radio frequency spectrum are as clear as Gulf stream waters, and based on wobbly science at best.

The questionable efficacy of media ownership rules is why they get batted around in court like a ball of yarn at a cat festival. That, and media corporations can afford all the lawyers in the known solar system, while the FCC pays scale.

Under the leadership of a former FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, expletives in “Saving Private Ryan” were found acceptable on the basis of “artistic necessity,” while the same ones were censured in a PBS documentary on the blues. Aside from racist implications in the determination, it was legally random. A law defining indecency can’t rest on subjective analysis.

The follow-up coverage on “Today” pegged out the silly meter with NBC-logoed screen-grabs of Lohan’s tweets. Twitter, after all, is a hotbed of Mensans. Then the feature piece: “Lindsay in Lock Up: What Will Jail Time Be Like for Lohan?” It launched with an interview of a felonious stock broker who now “counsels people on how to survive jail time” because South Africa already has a president.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good campaign.

To Your Health Let’s get one fact out straight away Television is not bad for your health. Too much television, of course can lead to all sorts of problems, like any sedentary activity can, but that’s not television’s fault. As

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