Licensed broadcasters can dodge public-interest duties by paying others to fulfill them

Evidence

Peggy Charren, the founder of Action for Children’s Television, had this to say about the outsourcing of this obligation as though being granted use of the public airways carries no public responsibility: “What kind of idea is this, trading away children’s rights and having one station fulfill the obligation of others? … Allowing stations to simply pay another station to do programming does not fulfill stations’ obligations to serve the needs of children” (Hall, 1995). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 981

Categorization

• CANDY: A genuinely odd regulatory dodge — a station could literally pay another station to meet its children’s programming mandate, trading away the obligation like a commodity.