FCC OKs controversial media-ownership rule »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 8 months agoThe Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was joined by his two Republican colleagues in favor of the proposal, while the commission's two Democrats voted against it.
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TechnologyExpert8 months ago
Martin pushed the vote through despite intense pressure from House and Senate members on Capitol Hill to delay it.
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It makes one wonder which media conglomerate he will work for when he leaves the FCC. After all it was clear that public opinion and Congress were strongly against this.
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IcCaRus8 months ago
"It makes one wonder which media conglomerate he will work for when he leaves the FCC. After all it was clear that public opinion and Congress were strongly against this."
one of the Democratic Commisioners was on NPR today and said the same things as in the article,namely that:
congress is bipartisanly opposed to this and will overturn this decision,and....
that they were given 28 days (short by governmental standards) to review this proposal,and then at the last minute, the Rep ranking Commissioner made numerous changes,then insisted that they vote anyway...
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bubba28 months ago
Why should they let public opinion stop them? They don't serve the public anyway - that has been apparent for quite some time.
They all only serve the big "cheeses" who donate BIG bucks to their campaigns or otherwise give them money and perks. The regular people of this country do NOT count anymore.
If it were not for the internet, most of us would really be clueless to so much of the CR*P that goes on in government and in corporate America.
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dirtyfratboy8 months ago
Who's going to report these people, when the same people own the media? Lose-lose situation for the public.
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Bacalao8 months ago
obviously Comcast doesn't donate enough money or airspace to a certain political party. They got capped at 3% above their present market share.
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doppich8 months ago
The trivial question now is whether the candy-a55 Congress is going to just roll over, or make some noise and then roll over anyway.
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vvv63vvv8 months ago
Congress has the power to throw out these rules -- and if 100,000 people demand it, they'll have to listen. Sign the open letter to Congress urging them to stop the FCC and stand with the public interest.
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter
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Lurch8 months ago
The FCC doesn`t monitor internet content, right?
I am just wondering what will happen when the next president comes into office and tries to promote condoms as the most effective means to prevent pregnancy on the CDC web site. The Bush admin took that stuff off their web site within a week of taking office.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS8 months ago
Now really, who couldn't see this coming? Write letter, send faxes, call the fat cat congress, and does anyone expect them to do anything? Makes as much sense as spitting into the wind and about as useless.
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unome28 months ago
"You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.": Jefferson, Thomas 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)
"The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.": Stanton, Frank L.
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joeblowe8 months ago
This is a total load of crap. I heard yesterday that in public hearings on this matter, 99% - yes, that's right 99 out of 100 people in the general public who showed up for the hearings were AGAINST allowing this as it puts too much control of the "news" in too few hands. Looks like that is EXACTLY what the FCC wants.
Son of a bitch. Does ANYONE have any idea how we can get our country back? It is VERY clear that the people that have somehow been put in these positions do NOT have the interests of ordinary citizens in mind at all.
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Bacalao8 months ago
I know some of you may have seen me post this link a few days ago, but, it seems as though it is very relevant to this story.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12142007/prof...
this is a Story form Bill Moyers Journel from last week.
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ladylou48 months ago
What an outrage! We need to write our legislators in addition to signing the free press letter. (See vvv63.vvv post and link above.) Protect our freedoms, especially the rights to think, speak, publish and petition!!
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NelsonR8 months ago
America epitome's a corrupt civilization that is run by money grubbing individuals who have an agenda.
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