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!
“I’ve been noticing that the press conference questions are starting to sound a bit more direct.
Not really. What was performed tonight in front of the cameras was a simple defusing exercise. Now the communists will proclaim great joy that Hussein Øbama The Magnificent has enlightened the masses with his “explanation” of a few semi-real questions regarding his approach to three or four aspects of his anonymous “Presidency.”
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You got that right, and the defusing was done with lies, half-truths, and misinformation, which the sheep will never figure out - more brainwashing.
That leads me to a unrelated question...sort of.
Did any of you catch a post with the headline “Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal To Hamas To Resettle in U.S.”?? It was quite thought provoking...had lots of pictures of the U.S.S. Cole and the attack on the World Trade Center...and of course, Hussien.It got pulled in the blink of an eye, and unfortunately i didn't catch where it came from...after I'd forwarded it and went back over on to Free Republic..and couldn't find it, I went back into my send list, and got onto the website I'd forwarded and when I got there, it just said”The requested Document does not exist on this server.” I wish I could have asked the moderator why it got pulled.Does any one have an idea why it would have? This happened early this evening.
This is the man that bluntly moved the Census into the WH under Rhalm Emanuel... I don’t know why anyone would doubt he plans to take over what and how we get our information.
Why should I believe this article from an anonymous writer?
I see "someone" still refers to me as overwrought on Obama's plans for all of us... Between FEMA camps, bringing the Census into the WH and this... I don't think I'm wrong on where he is heading with all his plans for this country...
Durians stink. I cannot fathom why anyone would eat them.
No, you’re not overwrought. The problem is that there are thousands more just like him. They’re all brainwashed from early childhood with the socialist party line (Red Diaper Babies). There’s a lot of these people, so getting rid of him is just part of the challenge.
I did see that article: maybe yesterday? Best off to cut and paste/screen shot any potentially controversial articles.
Maybe you could hunt down the “Determination” on a government site?
Rest of article here:
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/p_williams/2009/02072009.htm
PDF of Order:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm
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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,
2009
Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
1962 (the ``Act’’), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international,
governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
You are authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 27, 2009
[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]
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I hear those things really STINK
I think in the short-term they think they will get rich or be okay with the stimulus money. Longer term they will get screwed like everyone else. If he pulls what this “suits” thread is suggesting then the networks will get screwed sooner. They will need to decide soon. Either they sink O now or they will be sunk later.
It like the wolf promising not to eat the sheep or whatever analogy. Eventually he will come after you.
http://24ahead.com/barbara-boxer-wants-ratify-un-convention-rights-child-hillar
At this rate we’ll probably be getting his reruns over the summer...
***And it will be required viewing. Then in the fall you’ll have to write a paper on what you saw and how well it impacted your life.***
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The Super Terrific Happy Hour
Since I'm pretty computer illiterate, I'm in awe of some people on Free Republic, and since I have a web TV/internet hookup, I'm limited in my ability to access many sites....plus I probably wouldn't know how to navigate the Internet anyway...LOL. Thanks again for your help.
My pleasure, Molly T. I sent that to several people yesterday in e-mail, so I had it handy here!
Okay, now, who has his original birth certificate. Raise your hands, boys and girls, if you have a copy. ; )
You mentioned the U.N.....one of my fondest day dreams is that I'd live long enough to see that corrupt piece of real estate drop off into the Atlantic...or at least be forcibly moved over to Europe where the corrupted dictators would fit right in.....oh, well, I guess in our current situation, they fit in right here since we have our very own.
And the skilled personnel have bills to pay too. They'll show up for work.
I have no use for the UN. My niece and nephew were both home schooled. My Nephew has his masters from UC Irvine and has decided he wants to go to law school now...my niece is at UC Irvine and wants to be a doctor... both are straight A students in college.
ha ha ha
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