Reply #54: The FCC is the Govt. Agency. Colin Powell's Son heads it. There are

[KoKo]

only 2 Democrats on the 5 member Commission. We had a big DU and Move On.org. effort to stop "Media Deregulation." Forced Powell to have district meetings to get local opinion, and phoned and faxed Congress.

We won! Then the Repugs in Congress watered the bill down, and we don't know where it stands today.

Going after the FCC would take bigger guns that any of us have and more money than we have unfortunately.

I still say a phone bank activist effort might be worth it because of the Janet Jackson incident when people all over the country called in during the Super Bowl. Poor Janet was big news for a week and now they are going after censuring Stern and toning down some of the TV shows because of it.

Calimary has some good thoughts in her post. And Paul Begala did say in an article up on Buzzflash last year that Phoning works the best. The right wing has their e-mail banks and phone calls (tune into C-Span's Washington Journal some morning an listen to the phone calls of the idiots who call there. Don't tell me they aren't paid and given their "talking points." The grammar is terrible and they don't know what they are talking about, but they are part of the RW troops who are told to call shows and make a stink.

Keep at it. You may be successful! Don't want to shoot down your hope. Just cautioning like Calimary that there are other ways to do it if you can get a large enough group. DU is probably too disorganized right now, and many folks are tired from the efforts last year to Stop FCC De-reg. and Fight against Iraq Invasion, then the Campaigns took the rest of our energy. It might do some of us good to have a new cause to work for and bring DU'ers together like we were in the old days to try a Phone Campaign, but on the other hand it might "crash and burn."

Good Luck. Something has to be done.