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FCC chair to cable and satellite TV: Clean up your act or else
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| 11/29/05
| Jennifer Kerr - ap
Posted on 11/29/2005 2:58:26 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Lazamataz
101
posted on
11/30/2005 7:03:47 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Politics make strange bedfellows.
And I could sure use a little strange.
102
posted on
11/30/2005 7:06:07 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article Since 1999)
To: NormsRevenge; GatorGirl; maryz; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; livius; ...
103
posted on
11/30/2005 7:08:47 AM PST
by
narses
(St Thomas says “lex injusta non obligat”)
To: NormsRevenge
"Parents need better and more tools to help them navigate the entertainment waters, particularly on cable and satellite TV," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress on Tuesday. No kidding. With our cable service have to pay $10 for a box for each TV to be able to block programming. Even then, when we watch re-runs of "Raymond," we get R-rated commercials for "Sex in the City."
104
posted on
11/30/2005 7:11:32 AM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: NormsRevenge
Well, I don't see where the FCC has any jurisdiction on this matter, but I do wish that cable was a la carte pricing. I don't enjoy spending like 7 bucks a month for ESPN which I don't watch. Also, I wouldn't even spend .01 for lifetime.
105
posted on
11/30/2005 7:12:01 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: NormsRevenge
Hasn't the supreme court already ruled on this? I think the FCC is a bigger danger to America than someone saying sh** on this week's episode of cop drama.
To: Lazamataz
Let's see... I'm PAYING for a certain product. Now some Federal Bureaucrat wants to tell me I can't buy that product any more because some other assbat can't figure out the parental controls on their cable box?
I give up... Long live Amerika...
107
posted on
11/30/2005 7:17:25 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: Wolfie
"It takes a Viking to raze a Village."
MAN THE LONG BOATS!!! We've got some work to do...
108
posted on
11/30/2005 7:18:19 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: steve-b
Those people are called "conservatives", and this is a site that is designed to cater to them. The libertarians here are a loud-mouthed bunch, to be sure, but not even close to the majority of posters on this forum. Case in point: Terri Schiavo. There were a bunch of very angry libertarian types demanding that she be killed ASAP. But FreeRepublic polls showed that they were a relatively small group.
On this issue--and the many others that deal with cultural decline and protecting our kids from cultural corruption--the libertarians are a minority within the conservative movement. Happened to hear Laura Ingraham on the FCC/porn subject just today, and what she said reflects the views of most conservatives.
Needless to say, she didn't agree with the porn fans "freedom lovers" on this site.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said some critics have complained the bills don't go far enough and that decency standards should be expanded to cover cable and satellite.
How about we extend those decency standards to cover government spending - particularly on indecent 250 million dollar "bridges to nowhere"?*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!
110
posted on
11/30/2005 9:42:08 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: madprof98
Sorry. "It Takes A Village" is not a "conservative" positions, Shrillary's attempts at obfuscation notwithstanding.
111
posted on
11/30/2005 9:44:21 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b
"It Takes A Village" is not a "conservative" positions You evidently missed the definitive reply to that work, It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. It reflects what real conservatives think--and, unlike the libertarian position, it does not equate "freedom" with unrestrained-license-to-scratch-whatever-itches.
To: Melas
This is just the growth of big, tyrannical government. Nothing more, and certainly nothing laudable. This is downright sickening, and more so that any freeper would applaud it. Disgusting.I agree. We need to get rid of the FCC, because something that will be happening is that they'll be going after talk radio next. I have no doubt that the "Fairness Doctorine" will be coming back in a big way before 2008.
If people don't want commercial companies to distribute something, they shouldn't go after the government for more regulation: They should organize against those companies and hurt them the best way possible: In the corporate pocketbook.
The forces of the market, not government, should be used to get TV providers to "clean up their act."
Mark
113
posted on
11/30/2005 9:55:45 AM PST
by
MarkL
(I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
To: madprof98
On the contrary, it reflects Santorum's
break with the conservative tradition:
Above all, it is worth noticing because, like Goldwater's Conscience, it lays down a marker. As Goldwater repudiated Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, so Santorum repudiates Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
114
posted on
11/30/2005 10:02:31 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: NormsRevenge
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin
AKA The Ayatollah of the Airwaves.
115
posted on
11/30/2005 10:06:15 AM PST
by
wireman
To: steve-b
I was wondering what on earth you were quoting. I thought at first it was something sensible people read, like National Review. Then I realized what it was. I'll bet you think Ayn Rand was a philosopher too, don't you?
To: wireman
AKA The Ayatollah of the Airwaves. Oh, wow! With insightful wit like that, you could go far as a headline writer for The New York Times.
To: madprof98
LOL! Hmmm... Milton Friedman and John Stossel on one side; madprof98 on the other... how to choose?
118
posted on
11/30/2005 10:25:30 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: madprof98
Thanks!
Tell me the truth...Is this really Kevin Martin?
119
posted on
11/30/2005 10:28:50 AM PST
by
wireman
To: madprof98
I'll bet you think Ayn Rand was a philosopher too, don't you? I'm not sure what she has to do with anything. I gather that you don't care for her (I doubt she'd agree with the whole "close the SOA, curtail the gun lobby and abolish the death penalty" thing).
120
posted on
11/30/2005 11:06:30 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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