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FCC takes calls to pull Fox's broadcast licenses 'very seriously'
The Hill ^
| 5/9/12
| Brendan Sasso
Posted on 05/10/2012 9:36:11 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: dead
I think they didn't hack in that manner. See, the play that the UK media took was to use the term 'hack' without explaining it. When the usual guy hears hack, he thinks "intercepting or breaking into a secure network for nefarious purposes, usually financial."
In this case, if I am not mistaken, they got a second hand old phone that some politics or media star owned. I believe, and i could be wrong, that the so-called 'hacking' consisted of beating the password on a product that THEY NOW OWNED and that they had the right to do with as they wished. This isn't truly hacking, but you know how the media blurs terms on purpose.
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posted on
05/10/2012 10:49:01 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
To: ColdOne
First admendment?
First admendment?
We doon need no stinking first admendment!
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posted on
05/10/2012 10:59:55 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: Deb
They went to prison for lying to police and conspiracy. I don't know what you are talking about. Neither faced charges for "lying to police".
Clive Goodman plead guilty to conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority, in the case of three aides to the royal family.
Glenn Mulcaire plead guilty to the unlawful interception of communications and conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority.
So you're contending that they conspired to obey the law?
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: ColdOne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski
Education
Genachowski grew up in Great Neck, New York. He attended yeshiva and studied in Israel.[3] He entered Columbia College of Columbia University as a pre-med student, but earned a Bachelor of Arts in History (1985) magna cum laude. He was an Editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator. After working in Washington, D.C. for then New York Congressman Chuck Schumer, he entered Harvard Law School and earned a Juris Doctor (1991), also magna cum laude. He was a Notes Editor at the Harvard Law Review when his classmate Barack Obama was its president. Genachowski clerked for The Honorable Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justices William J. Brennan and David Souter at the U.S. Supreme Court.[4][5][6][7]
Obama campaign and transition
For Senator Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign, Genachowski was Chairperson of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Working Group, which created the Obama Technology and Innovation Plan.[12] He also advised and guided the Campaigns innovative use of technology and the Internet for grassroots engagement and participation.
After the November election, he co-led the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform Group for President-Elect Obama's Transition Team.[13] On January 12, 2009, several news outlets reported that Genachowski would be President-Elect Obama's choice to head the FCC. This was confirmed by a press release on March 3, 2009.[14]
No bias there, right?
.br
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:06:28 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: Da Coyote
He noted that the law requires that the FCC only grant broadcast licenses to people of “good character.”
Gee, guess all those black “hate” radio stations in large urban areas are in trouble.
To: ColdOne
License renewal “season” for TV stations starts June 1, 2012, when all TV stations in DC, MD, VA and WV file their applications with the FCC.
NC and SC go on August 1; FL and PR go on October 1; and AL and GA go on December 1. The rest of the country goes in various groups of states, until PA and DE file in the last group on April 1, 2015.
Everyone gets to file a “Petition to Deny” against the NBC owned WRC-TV in Washington, DC and the CBS owned WJZ-TV in Baltimore on or before September 4, 2012, as well as the Fox owned WTTG, Washington, DC. A theory which can lead to a hearing before an administrative law judge is “intentional news distortion”.
I think the first Disney/ABC renewal to come up is WXYZ-TV in Detroit next summer.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:09:49 AM PDT
by
nd76
To: dead
You mean like cropping a 911 call to cause a race riot?
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:12:44 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers.....)
To: Cheerio
The FCC does not have the authority to issue licenses to networks or cable service providers.
The FCC can take action against Fox broadcast affiliates (including FOX owned and operated stations) for material sent over the airwaves, but there is nothing the FCC can do about the Fox (cable) News Channel.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Any hearing on it wouldn’t be held until at least 2013; by that time the a-hole Genachowski will be long gone from the FCC.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:13:25 AM PDT
by
nd76
To: Lazamataz
There were lots of accusations of illegally accessing information for thousands of people - politicians, celebrities, people who knew celebrities, the families of soldiers killed in Iraq, and more.
The accusations included illegally accessing phone mail messages, hacking computers, and buying wiretap information from corrupt police.
There was never any information that Murdoch was involved or knew of any of it. Of course the leftists are pounding the issue to try to punish Murdoch for not being sufficiently leftwing (he's hardly a conservative) but the crimes were legitimate and the ethics of the people involved were shameful.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:15:14 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: wac3rd
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:16:06 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: JediJones
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:16:52 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Da Coyote
Well... Yeah. kind of my point really.
Government, doing a job it wasn't asked to do, and doing it badly.
Remove them from the equation and let things settle out amongst the shareholders.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:18:30 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
To: Foolsgold
Not to mention the mainstream media in 2000 declaring that Gore had won Florida while the polling places in the Panhandle were still open (Central time zone)—that has been estimated to have cost Bush 10,000 votes of people who went home rather than waiting in line because they thought it was over. Without that we wouldn’t have had Gore’s battle to win the electoral votes of Florida over the next five weeks.
To: dead
We really should get together before either of us is.... ummm... dead.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:48:41 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
To: ColdOne
Yeah, but not a word about NBC falsifying 911 tapes to incite a race war.
To: ColdOne
During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) pressed Genachowski on whether he plans to do anything about the allegations. When, oh WHEN, will this gentrified corrupt zombie going to FINALLY lie down?
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:52:53 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
To: Dan Cooper
>>>Why does the FCC have any regulatory authority over cable? Its not radio spectrum, its privately owned wiring.
The FCC has jurisdiction because those private “pipes” can leak - and cause issues for users of over the air spectrum... and congress gave FCC additional jurisdiction under the commerce clause... not that I agree or disagree with that - it is what it is.
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posted on
05/10/2012 11:57:20 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: stephenjohnbanker
So their attempts at appeasement of the Left shows the left that maybe Fox doesn’t have good character?
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posted on
05/10/2012 12:13:23 PM PDT
by
Anima Mundi
(ENVY IS JUST PASSIVE, LAZY GREED)
To: Cheerio
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski testified Wednesday that his agency takes calls to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses "very seriously." If they are pulled by this Communist, he should be the first casualty of a new civil war.
I'm serious.
The First Amendment is there for a reason. And so is the Second.
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posted on
05/10/2012 3:39:19 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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