Posted on 02/24/2014 11:00:47 AM PST by Jim Robinson
The FCC is simply a fascist propaganda tool of the democrat party!
DON’T STOP THERE...
How it got started. The Federal Radio Commission was the precursor to the FCC.
http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec023.htm
Early Government Regulation (1903-1941)
A much smaller agency with much less power can enforce decency regulations and station ownership limits(what few are left)
Seems to me that with all the digital media these days, many of the problems the FCC was supposed to deal with are gone anyway.
Yeah, except that most of them don't "lose" their original mission/purpose. The problem is that most of them are Trojan horses, whose real purpose is not their supposed "mission" when they are created.
For the FCC to even think about a plan like that warrants its shutdown.
I grew up the 1970’s when the FCC was going after stations on the basis of liberal Fairness Doctrine complaints.
This was RIchard NixOn’s FCC that actually shut down a radio station owned by a fundamentalist preacher who supported a military victory in Vietnam. His crime was probably not supporting Nixon’s “peace talks” with the commies.
Back then, I heard Dr. Carl McIntire and other victims of the FCC’s wrath call for a new agency strictly limited to regulating technical matters like interference with someone else’s frequency spectrum and nothing else.
The Radio Television News Directors Association and other voices of the MSM back then like “Broadcasting” magazine advocated that the First Amendment applied to broadcasters as well as the newspapers.
These bastards can’t (won’t) even enforce “Do Not Call.” Send them gold-plated evidence of wrongdoing, they sit on your complaint for about a year, then send you a letter saying that they couldn’t fix the problem.
Interesting history here.
http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa639.pdf
Broadcast Localism and the Lessons of the Fairness Doctrine
I’m not sure, but I suspect the FCC is also to blame for all the “public interest” advertising run by stations seeking to ensure license renewals. I wonder, too, if “diversity” requirements are not already responsible for some programming decisions.
Just like the NLRB, this agency’s “mission” at its core will only attract those of a certain political stripe. Their bias is built into the agency’s DNA.
Do not abolish the FCC. Just cut its budget 90% until it does its mission and answers to the people and the Congress.
Its quite interesting that a Republican on the FCC and some GOP congressman were quick to react to this “study” announcement last week.
Its because the Obama FCC was apparently trying to target the increasingly large portfolio of Sinclair Broadcasting Group.
Sinclair controls a large chunk of local television stations and local news across the country.
The new Obama chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, has put on hold the planned sale of Channel 7 (WJLA) in Washington DC to Sinclair.
Sinclair’s ownership supports the GOPe and their candidates for office.
Sinclair stations aired the Swiftboat documentary that took a critical look at John Kerry’s Vietnam service during the 2004 election.
The Leftists have been beating the drums about “localism” attacking Clear Channel in radio and Sinclair in television for years.
A “study” like the FCC wanted was just a prelude to formal regulation so it was important to stop it.
I believe in everybody’s free speech because when I defend the free speech of the MSM or the RINOstream media like Fox, Sinclair and many talk shows, I defend my freedom of speech.
EVERYBODY’S FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
Go FCC!
And take the EPA with you.
The FCC needs to be scaled back to assign frequencies so stations don’t interfere with one another.
That’s ALL they should do.
Is their a Sinclair network?
Oh they just have network affiliates airing Twerking with the Stars and American Gay Idol? or NBC Nightly News? How does this make them an alternative voice?
I had a friend who was working for a local radio station in 1980. It was the same station at which Rush Limbaugh had worked early in his career.
After Reagan was elected this guy told me that his station’s chief engineer was ecstatic. “Why”? I asked him.
“Because Reagan is gonna cut the FCC budget so low, in two years you’ll be able to listen to this station on Jupiter!”
Sadly his prediction did not come to pass.
Just Abolish The FCCAnd the EPA, DHS, ATF, DEA, NPR, etc.
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