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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:00 PM
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43. regulating ownership is one thing, government oversight of news divisions quite another
I'm open to the former; I don't see the latter as a workable solution (and don't think it would be a good idea even if it were).
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  -We Need A National Debate On What To Do With The Media 20score  Feb-15-09 04:56 PM   #0 
  - Thank you to those who gave me the hearts! You are great people!  20score   Feb-15-09 05:14 PM   #1 
  - the pigmedia MGHT consider doing something  pretzel4gore   Feb-15-09 05:16 PM   #2 
  - I think Thom Hartmann has it right when he says  ihavenobias   Feb-15-09 05:19 PM   #3 
  - Thom Hartmann is usually right.  20score   Feb-15-09 06:03 PM   #10 
  - The Fairness Doctrine stood for 60 years or more . . . it is part of the remedy we need . . .  defendandprotect   Feb-16-09 11:26 PM   #57 
  - I wholeheartedly agree....  gblady   Feb-15-09 05:25 PM   #4 
  - simple, logically. . near-impossible, politically  annabanana   Feb-15-09 05:29 PM   #5 
  - That has to change...  loudsue   Feb-15-09 08:33 PM   #17 
  - K&R  Greyhound   Feb-15-09 05:30 PM   #6 
  - Thanks!  20score   Feb-15-09 05:35 PM   #7 
  - Greyhound  lsewpershad   Feb-15-09 05:39 PM   #8 
  - Agreed. When we have 2 reporters (Williams and Liasson) drawing checks from NPR & Faux Noos, ...  Fly by night   Feb-15-09 05:46 PM   #9 
  - "been impossible for the media to be less informed than the people they were informing." How true!  suede1   Feb-15-09 06:14 PM   #11 
  - Thanks!  20score   Feb-15-09 07:15 PM   #13 
  - I'm hoping people will get as pissed at the media as I am. To repeat from earlier,  20score   Feb-15-09 06:40 PM   #12 
  - Nothing more important!!!  punkin87   Feb-15-09 07:29 PM   #14 
  - Agreed. If we had an informed public....  20score   Feb-15-09 10:57 PM   #20 
  - Go back to making laws where a few can't own all the media  lunatica   Feb-15-09 07:36 PM   #15 
  - You are right  keepthemhonest   Feb-15-09 08:10 PM   #16 
  - Thanks!  20score   Feb-15-09 08:33 PM   #18 
     - true at least we can trust him  keepthemhonest   Feb-15-09 08:41 PM   #19 
  - There you go....  hbskifreak   Feb-16-09 01:40 AM   #21 
  - Thanks, my man! You rock!  20score   Feb-16-09 04:12 AM   #23 
  - K&R  EFerrari   Feb-16-09 01:43 AM   #22 
  - i think you  barbtries   Feb-16-09 08:18 AM   #24 
  - Thank you very much!  20score   Feb-16-09 11:04 AM   #29 
  - the 'fairness doctrine' ISN'T the answer.  dysfunctional press   Feb-16-09 08:21 AM   #25 
  - We were able to stop the 2003 rule changes using just the internet and independent media.  20score   Feb-16-09 03:43 PM   #40 
     - We did not stop those rules changes, we lost  mentalslavery   Feb-16-09 04:40 PM   #45 
        - I do remember the Senate and the House voting overwhelmingly against the FCC rules that year.  20score   Feb-16-09 04:58 PM   #47 
           - We did move congress. We did show the power of a free and  mentalslavery   Feb-16-09 05:17 PM   #51 
              - Thanks!  20score   Feb-16-09 05:20 PM   #52 
  - we need to get them in the pocketbook, boycott their stations.  bdamomma   Feb-16-09 08:33 AM   #26 
  - K&R'd. Everyone, pls get ACTIVE about this issue.  snot   Feb-16-09 10:24 AM   #27 
  - Kick n/t  ihavenobias   Feb-16-09 10:50 AM   #28 
  - I totally agree, 20score, the corporate either never learned or don't care for having  Uncle Joe   Feb-16-09 11:27 AM   #30 
  - Thanks! Appreciated!  20score   Feb-16-09 11:57 AM   #31 
  - Refs are drawn from the pool of Americans. As long as Americans are stupid, so too will the refs be.  BlooInBloo   Feb-16-09 11:59 AM   #32 
  - A National Debate...and Charlie Gibson can be the moderator!  progressoid   Feb-16-09 12:04 PM   #33 
  - Any way we could drown them in the bathtub?  Kablooie   Feb-16-09 01:56 PM   #34 
  - Write to your Representatives  blaze   Feb-16-09 02:08 PM   #35 
  - End megamedia monopolies or near monopolies IMHO.  SmileyRose   Feb-16-09 02:11 PM   #36 
  - Agree, I don't think you can change a thing w'out breaking up the  harun   Feb-17-09 07:59 AM   #60 
  - Stop letting "The View" dictate all our domestic policies!  Initech   Feb-16-09 02:12 PM   #37 
  - A new reality series! American Anchor!  LeftHander   Feb-16-09 02:15 PM   #38 
  - Great!  20score   Feb-16-09 03:27 PM   #39 
  - Why are they even allowed to sell some of their products?  Usrename   Feb-16-09 03:50 PM   #41 
  - That's a damn good suggestion.  20score   Feb-16-09 03:58 PM   #42 
  - Thank you. I think it is too. This is a very serious subject.  Usrename   Feb-16-09 05:15 PM   #50 
  - Excellent points. Inciting genocide also. Kill the terrorist!!!!  mentalslavery   Feb-16-09 06:55 PM   #54 
  - regulating ownership is one thing, government oversight of news divisions quite another  fishwax   Feb-16-09 04:00 PM   #43 
  - It wouldn't be oversight as in looking over the shoulder. That would be terrible. But since  20score   Feb-16-09 04:22 PM   #44 
  - How about call it what it is, a crime. If this is legal, if this is freedom of  mentalslavery   Feb-16-09 04:54 PM   #46 
  - And one more thing!  mentalslavery   Feb-16-09 05:03 PM   #48 
  - Thank you! And your point about a crime. Spot on!  20score   Feb-16-09 05:13 PM   #49 
  - We need to keep the pressure on one of Pres. Barack Obama's campaign promises  nc4bo   Feb-16-09 05:41 PM   #53 
  - Without reinstating the Fairness Doctrine breaking up media monopolies  Lorien   Feb-16-09 07:01 PM   #55 
  - Wikipedia on The Fairness Doctrine and how it lost its value.  earcandle   Feb-16-09 08:25 PM   #56 
  - Stop giving them your eyeballs...  The_Commonist   Feb-17-09 07:18 AM   #58 
  - SUCCINCT!!: if the media had broadcast real news for the last few years,  BlancheSplanchnik   Feb-17-09 07:53 AM   #59 
  - Thank you!  20score   Feb-17-09 06:24 PM   #63 
  - The CEOs of the major media outlets  The Wizard   Feb-17-09 08:45 AM   #61 
  - An independent Fourth Estate is essential to maintain a Democracy.  olegramps   Feb-17-09 09:27 AM   #62 
 

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