Government Controlled Media

Four years ago, without public input, the FCC rolled back 30 yr old rules that limited a single company’s ability to be able to dominate local TV, newspaper and radio media markets.

Thankfully, the rules changes triggered a massive public response and through legislation and lawsuit, they were defeated. Now FCC chair Kevin Martin is attempting to do it again by trying to push through a similar set of changes allowing further media consolidation as soon as December 18.

This time, we needn’t wait until we have been sandbagged.

The FCC has been reviewing its ownership rules since a U.S. appeals court threw out a 2003 effort by the agency to revise them. Martin has said he favors easing limits on owning TV stations and newspapers in the same market, a change that would benefit Tribune Co. and News Corp.

It’s important who owns the press, as we’ve just seen and heard…but it’s also important who decides what is news. As during WWII when Hitler went to great lengths for media control, we have seen bush and his spin doctors try to do the same. They paint such a rosy picture of the Iraq OCCUPATION, the economy and instill fear into the hearts of Americans with the threat of terror, reminding us all of what happened on September 11.

Why wasn’t it news the weekend when more than 100,000 people turned out in 11 cities across the country to protest the occupation of Iraq?

If you blinked while watching the national news, you wouldn’t have known it was a story? I attended the protest in Chicag where more than 30,000 people showed their solidarity in their feelings about bush and his faux war on terror, yet to hear Tribune owned TV stations WGN and CLTV. you would think that few, if any, people showed up.

Thus giving ANYTHING that The Chicago Tribune and ANY of its affiliates very little credibility.

You can help by contacting Congress and the FCC now to stop Kevin Martin before he gets away with slipping this one by us.