Politics – The 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.
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.
A free press is the last thing our new fasist regime needs.
This is a very bad day for America. I had always thought that the FCC was created to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
Yeah, it seems all the FCC really cares about these days in censoring the bejeazus out of things.
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.
"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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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.
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.
"It's okay for you to have an opinion that differs from the those in power, we would just as soon you keep it to yourself; followed by marching in step, eyes right, and uhhh, we ran out of KY.. but there's still vaseline available. What sand? Fine.. do without, we're going to keep putting it to you 'til you leave or we have to kill you in response to your revolt." (Martin's favorite dream dialogue?)
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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.
"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...