CREDO: If you like Fox News, please ignore this email

[L. Coyote]

If you like Fox News, please ignore this email
Friday, May 9, 2008 10:16 AM
From: "Will Easton, CREDO Action" <[email protected]>

CREDO Action: Tools for Change from Working Assets

Stop Big Media's Assault on our Democracy!
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/stop_big_media/

Tell the Senate to reverse the FCC and prevent the media consolidation that is so damaging to our democracy.

In this very important election year, will a small handful of companies gain even more control over what we see, hear and read every day?

Click here to tell your senators and Majority Leader Reid to reverse the FCC's recent decision to allow greater media consolidation.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/stop_big_media/

Senator Dorgan of North Dakota has launched an effort to reverse the FCC's decision to gut the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban, which prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in the same market. Senator Dorgan has introduced a "resolution of disapproval" in the Senate to veto the FCC's decision; the resolution cleared an important committee vote last week, and is headed for a full Senate vote in upcoming days. Your voice is needed now—under Senate rules, this resolution must pass within 60 legislative days, and the clock is ticking.

We all know that democracy can't exist without an informed public—but media consolidation leads to fewer and less diverse voices in the debate, and less competition in the overall media system. When just a few companies are poised to gain control of the messages we see and hear every day, it poses a threat to the very fabric of our democratic society.

Click here to ask your Senators to support the resolution of disapproval and reverse the FCC's decision.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/stop_big_media/

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton, Activism Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

[midnight]

1. So it isn't that we have to worry about the media being to

liberal as we do about being to big and in the control of one.

[L. Coyote]

3. and too centralzed. Dorgan has been all over this since an event in ND

when local radio could not respond to an emergency, if I recall correctly.
The stations were on automatic from somewhere else in the country???

[depakid]

5. That's correct. Clear Channel took them over

911 Calls in North Dakota Town Reveal Dangers of Media Consolidation

Five years ago this week a train derailed in Minot, North Dakota leaking thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the air. One person died and hundreds were treated for immediate health problems. The city’s six non-religious commercial radio stations—all owned by Clear Channel—never aired warnings for local residents.

More: http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/25/exclusive_911_calls_in_north_dakota

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Signed, thanks for posting n/t

[L. Coyote]

4. Great!! n/t