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| | LEXSEE 25 F |
 | | CIO, and that the rights of citizens' access to those forums be included among the basic "privileges, immunities, rights and liberties of citizens." We must determine whether private corporate licensees of the FCC have any more right to exclude citizens from the use of their facilities, than a privately owned "company town," see Marsh v. |
 | | In sum, therefore, "a broadcaster seeks and is granted the free and exclusive use of a limited and valuable part of the public domain; when he accepts that franchise it is burdened by enforceable public obligations...." Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. |
 | | The Commission and the courts must begin to draw guidelines for "reasonable" access to the broadcast frequencies, seeking to ensure that the electronic media of twentieth century communication are as open to the public as the soap boxes, public parks, and town hall meetings of the last century. |
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