Posted on 09/13/2004 8:36:02 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Bump!
Right now, it is the conservatives who have token representation in the MSM (Fox) and the libs want to shut it down, witness the demonstrations in NYC during the convention. The libs will always have their MSM representation.
Heads up FreeRepublic. I gave us a plug in an email to Mr. Kurtz. Here's what I said:
Stanley,
If what you are saying is even potentially true, then alternative media and the average concerned citizen need to throw everything that they’ve got into petitioning the FCC to revoke the broadcast license of those folks currently running the CBS network. Those airwaves belong to you and me just as much as they do liberal folks. If we can’t expect a fair airing of our ideas and unbiased coverage of news events from any public of the public outlets, American society is compromised, with the views of one side getting a disproportionate amount of access to hearts and minds. The current debacle at CBS is the outward sign of the inner reality many conservatives have always known existed, now, deliciously there (no bias here ;>) for all to see. The arrogance of CBS to stubbornly cling to the delusion that their story is acceptable practice (which I believe is at the heart of this matter), proves beyond any doubt that their organization is unworthy of the trust granted to them (in the form of the FCC license).
I’m sorry if this disappoints their little crowd, but for far too long the Left has controlled all the avenues of ideological expression in this county, under the guises of network news, the college classroom, mainstream media. The acrimonious partisanship that currently brings a stench to all manner of public discourse in our land today is the result of this dominant monolith (and all its unwitting attendees perched on couches and desk chairs across this land) meeting the newly empowered resistance (the alternative outlets). The defrocking of CBS will go a long way in serving up some long overdue crow to those whose views have been (mis)shaped and (misin)formed by years of propaganda-like “journalism” and higher education.
I was lurking at the FreeRepublic site on Wednesday and I felt a part of history, watching as well-informed, patriotic “Freepers” dared to do what CBS would not do—examine the documents thoroughly, thus placing the burden of proof squarely where it belonged—on those leveling the charge. CBS failed to rise to this basic level of fairness and professionalism in their determined effort to undermine the president. The “partisan” group FreeRepublic, and not the serving-the-public news organization CBS were the watchdogs here.
Yes Viacom owns quite a number of CBS affiliate stations in the largest and most lucrative markets. We need to organize protests to the renewal of the broadcast licenses for those stations. CBS actually makes more revenues from those local stations than they do from their network.
BTTT and maybe post later
The next time any of CBS's Viacom owned stations comes up for a broadcast license renewal, it should be denied.
Amen to that!
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