*URGENT* Additional, easy, cut-and-paste campaign to save talk radio (30 seconds of your time)

What we need is an easy to copy-paste email list of Senators and Representatives.

Want to tell lots of people about this? Go here:

for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.

Follow the links; somewhere among all that stuff are the emails for assorted Reps.

Email sent!

So, you are on the same side of this argument as Disney, Viacom, AOLTIMEWARNERTURNER, and the other liberal media giants?

I'm no fan of the FCC, but just how is talk radio in any danger? It seems to be have done very well for itself over the past 10 years and I don't see anything gunning for it but incompetent liberals who can't cut it in the existing industry.

It's not. This whole thing is a giant misunderstanding based - as far as I can tell - on a single RAT in Congress doing an Alec Baldwin-style bloviation, claiming that "repealing the FCC ownership limit changes is just the first step, and next we're going to make the Fairness Doctrine into federal law!"

Regardless of what your opinion is on the FCC rollback of the station ownership limits (which wasn't even that much of a rollback), it has nothing to do with the long-dead Fairness Doctrine. In addition, the Supreme Court made is crystal clear 20 years ago that the Fairness Doctrine was only constitutional as long as the dissemination of news and opinion was largely controlled by federally-licensed radio and TV stations, and that the moment technology took away that monopoly, the FC would be ruled unconstitutional. That's why the FCC repealed the FC just a year or so later, based only on the fact that cable TV was starting to gain ground. Since then, the number of cable channels has EXPLODED, the number of broadcast radio and TV stations has EXPLODED, we have two more news channels, the Internet, the web ... we now live in a world where anyone with an opinion can put it out there for the entire rest of the world to see.

So even if the single RAT wasn't a blowhard loser, and the FC was passed (and Bush signed it, an even more laughable concept), an injunction would be issued against it the same day, and a few months later the SCOTUS would nuke it.

There is NO threat to talk radio.

Sent w/ this added.

----- Didn't we settle this already?

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What would you like to see government do to those American businesses?

I would like to see cartels and monopolies broken up so that the small businessman would have a chance to compete with the multinationals who rig the market.

Apparently we have our share of anti-capitalists on FR who also want to establish more caps, limits, and government regulations on free markets.....in addition to free speech.

Wow!!!! thanks for the list

Regarding the original form letter, here is a modified version if you want to personalize your own letter to send. I revised the third paragraph by adding two sentences. And I referenced KVI 570, however that can be edited to reflect your personal favorite station if different:

Businesses that chose to broadcast should only be limited by consumer demand and satisfaction. It should be free markets and consumers - and not government bureaucrats - that determine what voices are heard. I’m a loyal listener of KVI 570 AM (talk) radio in Seattle, WA. And I would be greatly troubled by any FCC re-regulation that would impose limitations upon the type and variety of programming that KVI radio currently offers.

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Bump backatcha...MUD

I'm bookmarking this...lots of good stuff. (Also emailed everyone) Thanks

Edwards and Dole covered.

You bet. My Senator are Chuckiee and Hillary, BTW. Get the picture? The only representation one can get around here in to infiltrate the Democrating party and vote against the leaders in the primaries.

This can easily be done by going to www.stopmediaregulation.org .

"The only representation one can get around here in to infiltrate the Democrating party and vote against the leaders in the primaries."

That's pretty scary. I do believe if I had Chuckie and the Hildebeest as senators, I'd have to move somewhere else. The problem is that there fewer and fewer "somewhere elses" to move to.

Carolyn

Don't have time to look through all the names, but Senator Coverdell passed away a several years ago. fLove your tag line by the way!