Reply #12: More than one way to skin that cult.

[jotsy]

Not sure if these are the kind of remarks you're looking for, but a couple/few things you might consider as you collect and compile.

If your area has a local community type radio station, they're likely to have someone handy that could help you get your legal bearings as it applies between communication venues and the variables in the rules that govern them.

The fact that Fixed Noise is woefully inadequate as a reliable and objective information source is already pretty well accepted among those who care to be in the know. I've posted more than the occasional article here about the importance of independent media only to get the response of crickets, and at DU, I guess it's akin to preaching to the choir. My point is, the more avidly we support work in the vein of Bill Moyers or Amy Goodman, Seymour Hersh, Greg Palast or our own Brad Friedman, the sooner we can mute Murdoch's megaphone of miscommunication.

Have you considered looking into the bed of cash big pharma provides through the advertising of the multitude of medicine we're all supposed to ask our doctors about? If Pfizer had a big fine to pay, how's about making their peddlers culpable? Or how the ad budget affects price structure to consumers.

Lastly, while strolling through a coastal touristy trap type town recently, I got up a little nerve an asked the worker at an eatery about what was on their big screen. I had said I wondered why it was on in places like doctor's offices or tire shops accompanied by little signs advising viewers to 'not change the channel' if it was because of a price break or something. She said she didn't know about the other places I mentioned, but did in fact believe the boss had some kind of deal to that effect. Easy to boast of being top rated if you're buying your audience in such a fashion I suspect. A demographically aged audience at that.

I contend they are on their way out, they know it, and it's why we see such desperate attempts by the likes of worms like the pimply O'Keeffe and his ego maniacal mentor, the over aged Breitbent boy to sway the talk back to their topics and packaging.

Technology is a nifty new tool for independence if we keep it free of the kind of collusion that has us bearing witness to the fall of nearly all it touches. Watch the net neutrality debate and see that the hand of censorship doesn't continue to taint our new world wide easy access library.

Good luck, and just because I've taken so much time and space here I'll try and provide a tidbit in keeping with what you asked for. I believe both Larry Craig and the page pursuing guy from Florida, Foley I think, were identified as democrats in this station's coverage of their respective scandals.