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Posted on 08/30/2004 10:31:43 AM PDT by crushelits
Washington — As a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, I may not agree with many positions taken by speakers this week at the Republican National Convention. Even so, I believe our broadcast media owe us more coverage of an event that remains an important component of the presidential campaign. Yet tonight, if people around the country tune in to the commercial broadcast TV networks, most will not see any live convention coverage. That's not right.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Memo to Copps: Then if you don't like your own policy, RESIGN!
Are the alphabet networks denying coverage to the Republican National Convention!?
from what I heard, yes..
It's called freedom & it does have some downside to it. What should we do - force everyone to watch gavel-to-gavel conventions once every 4 years, have mandatory reading lists, censor movies & books?
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