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1. Do broadcasters use radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities needs and interests? Give examples to support your answer.

I think that broadcasters do you radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities and interest to some extent. I think that they are usually on top of alerting people to important information however they aren't always geared towards the correct audience. For example if a News organization reports a story about an outbreak of a virus, people watching or listening to the report who aren't from that area may get worried and take action so . I think that there is a need for more local news outlets.
A way that broad casters do effectively respond if they report on something that is relevant the whole audience. For example, If the report on how the stock markets plummeted that day, that's news that going to effect every one regardless of where you live.

2. Are there certain kinds of local programming (Public Media Values) that should be available, but are not being provided by broadcasters? what could some examples of these be?

There are certain types of programing that should be available that arent being provided by their broadcasters. One type would be an outlet for local media such as music, enviornaental and social group to allow they vioces and opinions to be heard by the community that they may not have had teh chance to do before. The author says that if the bigt companies are going to come into the small towns and tear up the streats and disrupt life, then the should have access to channels to have their voices be heard by their community.

3. What could the Federal Communication Commission do to promote localism in broadcasting? Explain three of these examples of public-service-oriented projects that are already in process across the US.

One thing that the FCC could do to promote localism in broadcasting, is to have " Lacalism Hearings" in town accross the US giving people the chance to voice their concerns to the FCC. Another thing that the FCC could do, aside form the hearings, is set up local offices where people can go and give opinions with out going to the actual FCC offices. The last this that the FCC is doing is giving more Local organization channels on TV and radio so they can get their vioce out there.

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What is the "spectrum" that the authors refer to?
Spectrum refers to public airwaves. Public airwaves are the ways that people get their information whether it be TV, Radio, Internet or some other kind of outlet.