Vote for Dean to protest his media/DLC assassination!

[mzmolly]

If your candidate of choice is no longer, please vote for Dean to demonstrate your support for Grass Roots with out media intervention. Or, if your on the fence, there is good reason to switch to Dean...

Dean claimed long ago he would break up the media monopolies. He is the ONLY candidate who has taken this very important stand in regaining our democracy.

WE can't make progress if the RW media keeps telling people how to think.

Vote for Dean to protest the media assassination! :hi:

[no name no slogan]

1. Sorry I can't

Dean's NOT the only one talking about breaking up media monopolies. And now that his campaign is being run by a former telecom lobbyist, it makes me even more suspicious. Especially since he's already taken big contributions from senior executives at (AOL) Time Warner.

I agree with your message-- it's the messenger that troubles me, really.

:hi:

[liberalhistorian]

3. I have to agree, and I think

Dean himself is the main cause of all of his recent problems, he brought it on himself and I don't think he'll survive next week's primaries.

[mzmolly]

4. Telecommunications is not the mass media.

Also what other candidates are discussing this? Do you have a link. I'd like to read up on them.

Thanks

[blm]

5. Here's why the media muted Kerry for most of last year:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2003


Kerry Seeks to Reverse FCC's "Wrongheaded Vote"
Commission decision may violate laws protecting small businesses; Kerry to file Resolution of Disapproval

Washington, DC - Senator John Kerry today announced plans to file a "Resolution of Disapproval" as a means to overturn today's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise media ownership caps and loosen various media cross-ownership rules.

Kerry will soon introduce the resolution seeking to reverse this action under the Congressional Review Act and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act on the grounds that the decision may violate the laws intended to protect America's small businesses and allow them an opportunity to compete.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerry expressed concern that the FCC's decision will hurt localism, reduce diversity, and will allow media monopolies to flourish. This raises significant concerns about the potential negative impacts the decision will have on small businesses and their ability to compete in today's media marketplace.

In a statement released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision, Kerry said:

"Nothing is more important in a democracy than public access to debates and information, which lift up our discourse and give Americans an opportunity to make honest informed choices. Today's wrongheaded vote by the Republican members of the FCC to loosen media ownership rules shows a dangerous indifference to the consolidation of power in the hands of a few large entities rather than promoting diversity and independence at the local level. The FCC should do more than rubber stamp the business plans of narrow economic interests.

"Today's vote is a complete dereliction of duty. The Commissioners are well aware that these rules greatly influence the competitive structure of the industry and protect the public's access to multiple sources of information and media. It is the Commission's responsibility to ensure that the rules serve our national goals of diversity, competition, and localism in media. With today's vote, they shirked that responsibility and have dismissed any serious discussion about the impact of media consolidation on our own democracy."

[mzmolly]

6. I respect that position, but what will be do when he's elected?

Do you have any information on his future plans in this regard?

[NashVegas]

11. "Sirs, I Disapprove!"

Well that's effective. What did Kerry do to get this resolution passed?

[blm]

12. He submitted it to the Senate in September.

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[KittyWampus]

13. Kerry's Largest Campaign Contributors Are Telecom Lobbyists.

And he voted For Telecom and AGAINST public interests.

and the question is NOT how much Kerry got divided over how many years he has been in the Senate...

The question is WHEN did he get the money and WHEN did he vote on Telecom Issues.

[blm]

14. He got the donations over 18 years.

Little bit at a time.

Where was the quid pro quo on ONE year, 1996? Would Kerry's brother and his coworkers have NOT donated in 1996 if that telecom bill not gone through? They would NOT have donated from 1984-2003 if Kerry hadn't supported a telecom bill in 1996?

Please point to the reason behind your conclusion.

[mzmolly]

19. Is that the same brother who was convicted for trying to cut phone lines?

:shrug:

[artr2]

21. And one of Kerry biggest corporate donations came from..

Time- Warner over 100,000 dollars - trust kerry - not as far as I could throw him

[no name no slogan]

7. Telecom = Mass Media, after the 1996 Telecom act

The 1996 act allowed the merging of Telecom companies and media companies into massive conglomerates-- that's why you have ISPs offering phone service, and phone companies offering cable service. Which in turn own (or are owned by) mass-media companies.

And, if you have not read it already, I encourage you to visit http://www.kucinich.us/issues/media_reform.php, where DK lays out his plan for reforming the media. To quote from that page:

Media conglomerates are currently among the most powerful lobbyists against media reform, but Kucinich believes that were the media to provide substantive coverage of politics it would actually boost both media ratings and voter turnout.

In addition to requiring free air time for political campaigns, Kucinich will create a greater diversity of viewpoints in the media by breaking up the major media conglomerates, encouraging competition and quality, as well as diversity. Kucinich will place new caps on media ownership and would ban the granting of exceptions to those caps. Kucinich will limit the number of media outlets one corporation can own in a given medium, such as radio, print, or television. He will strictly prohibit cross-ownership and vertical integration.

Kucinich will involve people in the maintenance of their airwaves, creating public media outlets controlled by community boards similar to the model of Pacifica Radio. He will greatly expand funding for public broadcasting channels on television and radio, assuring the existence of media outlets free of the influence of advertisers.

[mzmolly]

10. I don't have a problem with my cable co. offering phone service

I do resent Rupert Murdoch owning all of our tele/radio stations however.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Clark is very progressive too! He is NOT taking this....

crap from Brokow :puke:

There are other candidates out there too.

[dolstein]

8. Leave the DLC and media out of this -- it was Dr. assisted suicide

Stop trying to blame everyone else for Dean's troubles. He brought them on himself. His campaign was as phony as a $3 bill. The fact that he would replace Joe Trippi, who practically invested the "new" Howard Dean, with a Washington insider and corporate lobbyist is proof positive of this.

[mzmolly]

9. Bullshit "he brought it on himself." The DLC protested him early on and

the media has admitted to the bias.

I see NO scrutiny of Kerry in the press. YOU?

I do appreciate your kicking my thread though, thanks!

[blm]

16. HAHAHA...where were you last year when the media muted Kerry

and only "scrutinized" process stories on Kerry?

Unbelievable.

[mzmolly]

18. Im here now and awaiting the *scrutiny* see any?

:shrug: I don't....

[Walt Starr]

15. I'm voting for Dean, but I'm also ABB

Anybody But Bonesmen.

[joshcryer]

17. I like that!

I'm ABB too. :D

[Cha]

20. "ABB"!

The media is now admitting to "suppression of microphone" with Dean!

This was taken from a viewer of Peter Jennings show on the 28th of January!
"Much to my surprise, tonight while watching Peter Jennings, he and Diane Sawyer did a retraction of the Dean Scream story.

They admitted that he had a suppression microphone that muted background noise. When they ran the film without the background noise suppressed, the screams of Dean supporters totally drowned out Dean. Even when yelling at the top of his voice, he could not be heard.

They also reported retractions by CNN, FOX and others, who all admitted they they blew this totally out of proportion.

So what is the moral of the story? Are they willing to destroy an excellent candidate's attempt to run for the highest office in the land? And only retract a day after they learned that they could not beat him after all?

Pardon me for being a little ANGRY!!"