Posted on 02/09/2009 8:44:21 PM PST by MindBender26
The Suits Are Scared: Obama's Plan To Take Over Broadcast Television.
I'm in New York tonight, and just back in my hotel room after watching Obama's news conference performance. I had a front row seat in my old network's main conference room. Us old retired TV newsie types are normally relegated to the back row of the bus, but due to my Elder Statesman / retired Crusading Reporter status, (and the fact that I bought two rounds at dinner) I was granted special dispensation to sit up front with "The Suits."
"The Suits" is network parlance for the bosses from the business side of the network. Many have come from the Sales Department, where the overriding qualification for promotion is to sell as many commercials as possible to non-creditworthy customers who never pay us. Others come from the Programming Department. They're the ones who are in charge of driving away as many viewers as possible, particularly those from that narrow demographic band of viewers that actually, occasionally, ever so rarely, buy something that one of our deadbeat advertisers features on the air. This is the group that has given us "Mister Ed," "My Mother the Car," and other ratings grabbers while they canceled the original Star Trek as soon as they could and told everyone who would listen that they expected M*A*S*H might eek out a 13-week run.
Others are your basic long-necked pencil geek accountants, administrative zombies and the like (and others you definitely do not like, such as any attorneys within 500 yards.)
Cumulatively, they couldn't win $20 on "are you smarter than a 5th grader. As far as news sense is concerned, none of them can spell Gern-a-liz-zum.
Tonight The Suits were in Full Panic Mode. Someone finally got around to sending them a memo that reminded everyone that the new FCC Chairman-designate and radical leftist Michael Copps has publicly stated that he wants to remove 95% of the value of many television stations (their government license to broadcast and make money by selling commercials for hemorrhoid creams and the like.)
He has made speeches stating that he wants to give those licenses to "community groups". Two of his favorite "community groups" are ACORN-type organizations and labor unions. Copps is also demanding that all broadcast stations be re-licensed every two years, instead of the current seven. That will ensure that every, I repeat, every, broadcast station in the United States will have to apply for (go begging for) the renewal of its broadcast license (and the accompanying 95% of the station's value) before the 2012 general election.
Now, everyone in the class who believes that broadcast station owners will move their programming and news coverage even further left so as not to offend the Obama administration and therefore watch their billion dollar investments be given away to, that's right class, can we all say "Community Organizers," that's right, there billion-dollar investments be given away, please raise your right hand.
Your right hand, please Mr. Rather, not your left.
That seems to be unanimous. You may all put your hands down.
Now all the very smart FReepers certainly now realize the underlying foundation for their Full Panic Mode.
But wait! (As we used to say in the early days of radio)… there is more!
Tonight there is a well-founded rumor floating around Black Rock, West 57th in the hallowed halls of Rockefeller Center. Insiders claim that Obama's media dweebs in Washington want to force the broadcast networks to give up either a full hour, or perhaps a half-hour, of prime time every month so The Great Obama can conduct his televised version of fireside chats.
That's right, Mr. Obama wants to demand free prime time coverage of his version of "Crazy Uncle Elmo Explains It All to Us." The idea would be that all four major networks would be required to simultaneously carry Obama in his Big Brother role, continuing to try to convince us that he alone has all the answers, that we can tax our way to prosperity, and that we should ignore all those felony records and charges of his Cabinet officials.
The cost of this? Even more billions of lost advertising revenue. (The new watchword of the Obama administration seems to be, "Why screw people out of just a few million, when with a little forethought and effort, you can screw the public out of billions of dollars?")
This new, forced programming would not be a press conference or any other environment that would allow questions, differing opinions, or just simple straight-up exposure of Obama's, Reid's, and Pelosi's lies. This would just be The Great One beaming down his magnificence upon us, reminding us all, that he and the Big Brother both love us.
This is not a sure thing yet, but Obama's people in Washington are working very hard to sledgehammer the networks into it. Imagine the power of your own, free 30 or 60 minute network political television program every month! Imagine how much horse sense you could convert into horse s**t in that time
Think about it. This will be enforced by the people who have the ability to take away tens of billions of dollars of broadcast station owners' equity with a simple stroke of the pen. It wouldn't even have to be a presidential executive order, let alone the bothersome details of getting a law passed in Congress. All it would take would be a simple 4-3 vote of a Democrat-dominated FCC.
Poof! Guess what Mr. Broadcast Station Owner? 95% of your wealth just disappeared because you wouldn't drink the Kool-Aid.
For those who think it couldn't, or wouldn't happen; think what has happened in the last 18 days that you wouldn't have thought would happen in, or to, our America in the next 18 centuries.
Cry, My Beloved Country! …. but make sure you wipe away the tears so your TV makeup doesn't run. Faking sincerity is SO important!
http://slashdot.org. Leans a little left (not just US but a lot of Euro readers), but HUGE readership. There is such a thing as “the slashdot effect” for a very good reason.
I thought they were called "Pencil Neck Geeks"....remember the song by Fred Blassie?
Back when I was a kid, life was going swell.
Till something happened, blew every thing to hell.
That night my daddy stumbled in, all pale and weak,
Said, "A woman up the block just gave birth to a geek."
Mom said, "Sell it to the circus, what the heck."
Dad said, "Nope, this one's a pencil neck.
And if there's one thing lower than a side show freak,
It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck geek."
You see if you take a pencil that won't hold lead,
Looks like a pipe cleaner attached to a head,
Add a buggy whip body with a brain that leaks,
You got yourself a grit eatin', pencil neck geek.
(chorus)
Pencil neck geek, grit eatin' freak,
scum suckin', pea head with a lousy physique.
He's a one man, no gut, losing streak.
Nothin' but a pencil neck geek.
Soon the geeks were poppin' up all over town.
You couldn't hardly sneeze without knockin' one down.
After a nice juicy steak, if you need a toothpick,
Just reach for a geek, they'll do the trick.
One day we cut one up for fish bait.
Learned our lesson just a little bit late.
Soon as the geek hit the drink, the water turned red.
Next day, sure enough, all the fish were dead.
chorus
Most any night you know where I can be found.
Yeah, stomping some geek's head into the ground.
So keep the faith, 'cause in Blassie you can trust,
I won't give up 'til the last geek bites the dust.
chorus
They say these geeks come a dime a dozen.
I'm lookin' for the guy who's supplyin' the dimes.
Its gonna be real hard times for all of these
grit eatin',
scum suckin',
boot lickin',
drop kickin',
gut grindin',
nail bitin',
glue sniffin',
scab pickin',
butt scratchin',
egg hatchin',
sleazy,
smelly,
pepper bellied,
dirty, lousy, rotten, stinkin', freaks.
Nothing but a pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek.
Who wrote this? Is it a credible source?
Assuming this is true and you are Murdoch or Redstone or Disney what are your options?
You can take it and lose billions or somebody starts to get the news out on this guy’s BC or something else. This is the proverbial network capitalists who sold Obama the rope to hang the networks.
The good news is hopefully most Republicans will decide to cancel cable and sat TV. If that happens Obama loses a lot of power and the networks will go broke.
He will then manipulate the Internet.
I think the post may be BS. I hope it is true and the broadcaster see their businesses will be wiped out. You dance with the devil (literally).
“Tonight The Suits were in Full Panic Mode. Someone finally got around to sending them a memo that reminded everyone that the new FCC Chairman-designate and radical leftist Michael Copps has publicly stated that he wants to remove 95% of the value of many television stations (their government license to broadcast and make money by selling commercials for hemorrhoid creams and the like.)
He has made speeches stating that he wants to give those licenses to “community groups”. Two of his favorite “community groups” are ACORN-type organizations and labor unions. Copps is also demanding that all broadcast stations be re-licensed every two years, in1<<Sad because the uneducated masses will continue to be dumbed down further.”
<<Question, does Copp have the legal/constitutional right to “demand” the relicensing every 2 years??
When do we declare?
Somebody has got to photoshop Teletubbies. Obammie as the rising sun, and the adoring populace as the teletubbies. The sun who controls teletubbies world by rising and setting.
God help us all.
Sorry, this is a little hard to believe. This would backfire BIGTIME. Imagine if politics interfered with bringing people American Idol. That would cause chaos! Most people don’t know or give a crap about the stimulus but if CSI or American Idol was canceled do to sponsorship issues there would be hell to pay.
Fairness Doctrine, donchano...
The real danger is to the little owners, the singletons and the small 2-7-10 station groups. They would fold like a cheap suit.
Watching “The One” on HDTV. Great, just great. It’ll probably be required viewing for all govt. school kids, too.
I wonder if he’ll have a theme song like Mr. Rogers? Maybe change from a jacket and shoes into a sweater and sneakers. No disrespect to Mr. Rogers. He came to my mind first.
What were these stupid people thinking about when they voted for him?
Praying hard for our country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pDunchnnUY
Need a bit of editing, though.
Is this for real?
There is no right to licensure. The license is the “property” of the people in the area it serves / broadcasts to.
FCC decides who would serve “The Community” the best, how and when.
Stroke of the pen.
Sorry, this is a little hard to believe. This would backfire BIGTIME. Imagine if politics interfered with bringing people American Idol. That would cause chaos! Most people don’t know or give a crap about the stimulus but if CSI or American Idol was canceled do to sponsorship issues there would be hell to pay.
***Ah, but you forgot that he is “The American Idol.”***
Finally they got it.
They made him, let’s see if they can destroy him before he destroys them.
Too close to call in my ever so humble opinion...
“Stroke of the pen.”
<<Those 4 words are starting to sound pretty scary! :(
Trust me, they could find some show to cancel.
There are TV shows on now that have lower ratings than the taxi dispatchers’ radio calls.
Detroit Lions v. Houston Texans?
Cleveland Browns v. Fresno State Teachers College?
Who cares about the networks? They pride themselves with the fact that they elected him. You reap what you sow. Besides nobody was left watching anyhow...
“There is no right to licensure. The license is the “property” of the people in the area it serves / broadcasts to.
FCC decides who would serve “The Community” the best, how and when.
Stroke of the pen.”
Eh second thot, I think Rush needs to start broadcasting offshore—a Radio Free America. Not kidding :(
The morons woldn't even broadcast President Bush when he made his speech about why we weregoing to war with Iraq. President Bush gave 6 reasons. Can you name them?
Don't feel bad, neither can any reporter in the United States.
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