Reply #128: I think, once Kerry is in office he should...

[The Animator]

1. Get Powell's stupid kid out of the FCC's chair position.

2. Appoint someone with a back bone.

3. Get said person to crack down on yellow journalism.

4. Re-instate, the equal time policy.

5. Stop independant news organizations from being gobbled up by large corporations.

6. Bust up current Media Monopolies.

7. Provide grants and initiatives for start up news organizations.

8. Create a special fact-checker division of the F.C.C. and inflict stiff fines to News organizations that mislead people.

9. Enforce the code of jounalistic ethics as a law.

10. Redraw the now, very blured line between News, and Commentary, between fact and opinion, News of Substance, and Fluff.

11. If your going to have a T.V. Show, and it will be called a "News" show, it should actually contain... well.. News. Not someones opinion of the news, but real news. (exemptions for dramas, sitcoms, and the Daily Show)

12. Require by law that any Newspaper forced to print a retraction, do so on the front page. (the penalties is two fold, because it essentially forced to advertise that it made a mistake, and the newspaper must sacrifice prime page real estate because of their screw-up = more motivation to get their facts straight before they go to print.

13. Same as 12, but applied to T.V. News, if force into retraction, said retraction must be aired at the beggining of the show.