It seems this week that “change” is on everyone’s lips, with every presidential candidate from Barack Obama to Duncan Hunter claiming to embody the word. But change isn’t limited to the campaign trail — with some fanfare, the National Association of Broadcasters announced this week that it was jumping in the game with some changes of its own. 
Change certainly would be welcome a the NAB, which took some rather oddball positions last year, arguing for subsidies to ensure that “no TV set…gets disenfranchised” (“One TV Set, One Vote: Broadcasters Assert Rights for Televisions“), and asserting simutaneously that broadcasters do and do not compete with satellite radio (“National Association of Broadcasters v. National Association of Broadcasters“).
So now will NAB retract these silly positions, starting out the new year fresh, with better-grounded arguments on behalf of its members? Sadly, no. The change implemented at the NAB is a new logo. And a new tagline: “Advocacy. Education. Innovation.” NAB President David Rehr says this will embody the interest group’s “reinvigorated sense of advocacy.”
Right. Now if only it can work on reinvigorating a sense of good policies to advocate.
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