Re: Is India a model Democracy?

["Cprakash" <Cprakash@goplay.com>]

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Your define of a free press as a public good is an arbitrary one.
what is a public good is the freedom for everyone to express
themselves. In your case, all of my "subscription" could be tune into
my favourite frequency - say a station like - "the hindu re-
emerges"(a fictional one ofcourse). The waves are not created by
anyone, so the best solution for them would be to tell the goverment
to auction off THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM, for a required sum or RENT.
whether i use the station to propogate my views, play music or
conduct pornographic radio plays, blaspheme my hated religions
should not be a concern of the government.
Padmanabha Rao <kvprao@igidr.ac.in> wrote on Tuesday January 9, 2001
at 10:27pm:

>If while my FM is tuned, you come online to tell me that I lack
>the information that six hindus are getting lynched in Dadar you are
>trying to use my weakness for violence. If I truly desired such
>information I would have long subscribed to the necessary systems and
>not depend on a universal medium to fulfil it, simply because I
should not
>expect my personal desires to be fufilled by a universally used
media or
>
>a public good. The Free Press is a public good and a model democrasy
>should do everything in its power to ensure that the Free Press
remains
>a
>public good, a FREE press. The problem lies in the multimedia press
not
>living up to this expectation and getting online with an agenda. That
>makes them private and so naturally a society can be expected to curb
>them
>where their power is too inclined for abuse. A public good cannot be
>allowed to have any power for violence. This last point is perhaps
>debatable ?

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