Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:00 AM
Left Coast2020 (1,482 posts)
Senator Sanders is proposing to break up BIG media!!
This would be a good time to get other Senators to Co-sponsor legislation he may propose. I want to see this happen. It needs to happen. Lets all make this happen!!!
http://signon.org/sign/restore-the-airwaves I sent him a link to this dispite the facy I'm not in Vermont. But hey! What do I know. I'm just trying to make this change in our democracy (for what its worth) because its important to me. And I'm serious when I write that. I started this before KPOJ went to sports. I just want a response to the foul-mouth Mark Lavin. He needs to be sent to China for a couple of years. Nuf said. If you have not signed, please do so and tell your friends!!
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24 replies, 1691 views
| Author | Time | Post | |
| Left Coast2020 | Dec 2012 | OP | |
| sasha031 | Dec 2012 | #1 | |
| putitinD | Dec 2012 | #2 | |
| sabrina 1 | Dec 2012 | #3 | |
| Dark n Stormy Knight | Dec 2012 | #6 | |
| Art_from_Ark | Dec 2012 | #13 | |
| rhett o rick | Dec 2012 | #4 | |
| aquart | Dec 2012 | #5 | |
| femrap | Dec 2012 | #7 | |
| sheshe2 | Dec 2012 | #8 | |
| xxqqqzme | Dec 2012 | #9 | |
| Berlum | Dec 2012 | #22 | |
| Cha | Dec 2012 | #10 | |
| onestepforward | Dec 2012 | #11 | |
| LeftInTX | Dec 2012 | #12 | |
| Unknown Beatle | Dec 2012 | #14 | |
| Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin | Dec 2012 | #15 | |
| dmr | Dec 2012 | #16 | |
| HiPointDem | Dec 2012 | #17 | |
| MrYikes | Dec 2012 | #18 | |
| Egalitarian Thug | Dec 2012 | #19 | |
| Snotcicles | Dec 2012 | #20 | |
| mahina | Dec 2012 | #21 | |
| woo me with science | Dec 2012 | #23 | |
| Left Coast2020 | Jan 2013 | #24 |
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:04 AM
sasha031 (6,700 posts)
1. I signed & tweeted it earlier
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this would be a dream if it could be done.
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:07 AM
putitinD (291 posts)
2. signed, sealed and delivered
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:11 AM
sabrina 1 (34,021 posts)
3. He's always on top of the important issues.
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I wish we had so many more like him. What a great country we could be.
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Response to sabrina 1 (Reply #3)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:33 AM
Dark n Stormy Knight (1,176 posts)
6. Yes! I have so much respect for him.
Response to sabrina 1 (Reply #3)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:59 AM
Art_from_Ark (16,883 posts)
13. We used to have a bunch of very distinguished Senators
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J. William Fulbright, Frank Church, Mike Mansfield, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, William Proxmire, and even some decent Republicans like Everett Dirksen and Margaret Chase Smith, come immediately to mind.
As Joni Mitchell sang, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone..." :sigh: |
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:16 AM
rhett o rick (26,604 posts)
4. I wish the Democrats were more like Sen Sanders. nm
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:34 AM
femrap (13,418 posts)
7. Our only
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Socialist. I always think that if things get too horrible, I can always move to VT.
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:39 AM
sheshe2 (4,731 posts)
8. Done!
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K&R
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:13 AM
xxqqqzme (13,426 posts)
9. Signed.
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Recalling Howard Dean suggested this when he ran for President. The media trashed him less than a week later w/ the 'Dean scream' playing on an endless loop and branding him 'unelectable'.
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Response to xxqqqzme (Reply #9)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 06:27 AM
Berlum (3,659 posts)
22. Wow. I'd never put the sequence of events together before
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stunning
thanks for the Major Freaking CLUE , xxqqqzme
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:16 AM
Cha (124,322 posts)
10. Signed Sealed & Delivered! Thanks Left Coast..
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how could I not sign this petition that trying to Smarten up our US "media".
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:30 AM
onestepforward (3,086 posts)
11. Signed!
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:46 AM
LeftInTX (2,171 posts)
12. Done
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 02:10 AM
Unknown Beatle (371 posts)
14. Signed
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 02:56 AM
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (6,600 posts)
15. You go Bernie
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If our current FCC commissioner would do his job this wouldn't be necessary.
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Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 03:09 AM
dmr (25,763 posts)
16. Here's a link to Sen. Sanders' petition:
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http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=E1247B9D-8968-4282-B880-569CF64032A8
Media Monopolies December 6, 2012 Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference why he is fighting a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule change which would allow media conglomerates to dominate broadcast and print media. “We’re going to do everything we can to prevent it from happening,” Sanders told Bill Moyers in an interview that will air this weekend on Moyers & Company. “We cannot live in a vibrant democracy unless people get divergent sources of information and have the opportunity to have serious debate about the major issues of the day,” Sanders said at the news conference. |
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 03:40 AM
HiPointDem (16,760 posts)
17. kr
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 05:24 AM
MrYikes (668 posts)
18. signed and thank you for posting
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 05:36 AM
Egalitarian Thug (7,004 posts)
19. Done. n/t
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 05:37 AM
Snotcicles (4,925 posts)
20. I would sign if I didn't get put on another stinking mailing list.
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 06:23 AM
mahina (5,322 posts)
21. Dread...last time I heard that
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it was Howard Dean, right before the 'Dean Scream' water torture of big media mic'ing that moment up and repeating it 100k times.
Bernie is pretty safe though! God bless and protect him. I've signed and will support. |
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 11:34 AM
woo me with science (19,547 posts)
23. Kick
Response to Left Coast2020 (Original post)
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 07:35 PM
Left Coast2020 (1,482 posts)
24. Thank you all for signing.
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I just saw on here the other night that the Seattle station switched. So it is a given that we fight back on this. As I may have posted elsewhere, this is not a time to lay back and hope that things will be better in the morning. Ain't going to happen.
And if there are any organizations you can think of that would be willing to help push this(believe me this is a heavy lift for just one person), then it would not only be appreciated, but it would build the momentum that much more. Again, to those in Seattle, I'm sorry you lost your voice(and Stephenie Miller, or Thom Hartmann), but we can have our day. We just have to work for it. Now as big Ed would say, "lets get to work". Again, thank you so much for helping keep my dream alive to end corporate media. |

