Although licensing of the mass media seems contrary to the First Amendment, the U.S. Court has permitted licensing of broadcasters for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) the airwaves which broadcasting uses belong to the public, not any private owner.
B) broadcasting is so expensive it was necessary to protect the station operators' investments.
C) the radio industry asked the government to step in and bring order to the chaos in 1927.
D) scarcity of frequencies requires limits on who and how many people transmit signals.
Answer: B
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