Posted on 11/20/2011 10:15:21 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Some years ago I saw a drunken Ted Turner speech when he expressed a desire to have one global news network to get the news right so people wouldn’t be misinformed.
So did hitler...
No one thought a lousier adminstrator for FCC could be found than Bush appointee Kevin Martin, but then Obama managed to find Julius G.
There is a valid reason (spectrum management and licensing) for the FCC to stay in business, but it needs to be radically downsized to less than 1/3 of its current size, with a very narrow focus. Here we see the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent as the FCC is trying to involve itself in content. This agency needs an extreme makeover.
Interesting post. Thanks.
The article says government restrictions on private companies will be lifted.
Conservatives usually think that is a good idea.
We wont actually see any difference in the quality of the news we get. Its already pro-government as a private industry. The industry probably like government control because they can see competition and poor news quality is reducing their job security and want tax dollars to subsidies their shoddy service
bump.
I don’t know. The founders of this republic were pretty set on preventing the concentration of all power into just a few hands, governmentally, knowing as they did the dangerous and corrupting nature of that sort of power.
And it matters little if the entity obtaining all power over the people is governmental or private, especially if the powerful private entity is in cahoots with a powerful central government like today’s mega-corporations are.
Don’t forget, that’s exactly the sort of socialistic, statist monopoly on power that led to the Third Reich.
“Conservatives usually think that is a good idea.”
Yeah,,, and conservatives also know that Obama is a single minded revolutionary socialist that is absolutely not advancing the cause of free enterprise.
So although the article thinks he is “lifting restrictions” on private companies, you can be sure that this is artfully written crap designed to kill private companies.
This has nothing to do with deregulating private companies. This is either the product of bribery,,like solyndra, or a move to consolidate government control over the media,,,or both.
Period.
Correct..
the birth, actually, the coming out of kindergarten of the Govt owned media we have today... to the One Party media of the Government we have now.. for YOUR tomorrow..
all hail the new order by media declaration
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The fewer there are the easier they are for the left to control
Why not, they are already intent on making sure that we end up with only one telephone company...and those of us old enough to remember when there was one phone company are shuddering at the thought.
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