[LeftCoastNeoCon]

FCC ISSUES STATEMENT ON SINCLAIR AIRING OF ANTI-KERRY BROADCAST...

[tractorman]

Maybe one of the October surprises is that there really isn’t a movie after all, but only rumors of movies just to tick off the Kerrorists.

[maine-iac7]

But it's OKAY that Moore's is scheduling to RESHOW fahrenheitCrap the VERY eve before election!!!!!
And that it's being played in public taxed payed for school across the country?????
That's not partisan?

[dead]

Can anybody tell me who the Sinclair Group is and what channel they are going to air this on?

There's so much noise, I can't hear anything.

[marty60]

Commissioner
Michael J. Copps
Nominated May 1, 2001; confirmed May 25, 2001; sworn in May 31, 2001. Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at Collins and Aikman Corporation and the American Meat Institute. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

YEAH WE KNOW EVIL DUMS WANT OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH REMOVED FROM THE CONSTITUTION

[Gimme]

"FCC ISSUES STATEMENT ..."

If Copp is only a Commissioner, do the OTHER Commissioners have a statement for does he speak for them too?
Copp is not the Chairman so .... ??

[QQQQQ]

This should NOT be billed as "anti-Kerry" broadcasting.

It should be billed as "Documentary about Vietnam POW-s".

POW-s and their families HAVE a right to speak.

Why is it that Moore's lies were touted as a "documentary", instead of an anti-Bush fiction?

How many hourse of anti-Bush propaganda do we see on TV, that is claimed to be news reporting? CBS-s Dan Rather show is just one.

[Congressman Billybob]

Now let me guess. Might this Commissioner be a Democrat?

As a First Amendment lawyer of long experience, I have zero doubt that what Sinclair Broadcast Group is about to do is protected by the First Amendment. And the irony is this: Stolen Honor is an intensely factual work in that the testimonies of the former prisoners of war that it contains are personal, and genuine.

Therefore, these broadcasts on Sinclair are far less of a threat to the values of a free press than the forged documents that Rather/CBS used in its attack on George Bush. Odds are, this Commissioner probably has said not a word about that.

Furthermore, the very issuance of this statement demonstrates that the FCC will do nothing to stop the broadcasts by Sinclair nor to punish them afterward for making it. Note that the Commissioner's statement attacks both Sinclair and the FCC itself. He knows that his position will lose any vote that goes to the Commission, if the matter even reaches that point.

One last point. This Commissioner will be FORCED to disqualify himself if the Sinclair broadcast ever does come before the Commission. It is black-letter law that any judge or commissioner who announces his/her conclusion in advance of any hearing is prejudiced and unfit to sit in judgment on that matter.

Congressman Billybob

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[LeftCoastNeoCon]

JUST FYI EVERYBODY: THERE ARE TWO THREADS ON THIS TOPIC UNDER "BREAKING NEWS". THE SECOND IS POSTED WITH THE STORY WHEN IT FINALLY CAME OUT.

THAT'S MY FAULT. I'M NEW HERE AND DIDN'T QUITE GET HOW IT WORKED.

NOW I DO. (DOH!)

-LCNC

[elephant]

Rush just said that it was not the FCC but just one Commmissioner from the FCC. We need to call Sinclair and thank them for broadcasting this and send an e-mail and/or letter about the commects from Copps. This MUST not stand. I know Freepers can get into action and be all over this issue fast. The DemonRats have their people all over this NOW.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

As long as Kerry doesn't flash a boob, I don't see why the FEC should be involved.

[Cicero]

Copps was appointed by Bush, apparently under the rule that a certain number of seats on the commission have to be held by the opposition party.

Here's an extract from his biography:

"Mr. Copps moved to Washington in 1970, joined the staff of Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and served for over a dozen years as Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff. From 1985 to 1989, he served as Director of Government Affairs for Collins and Aikman Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company. From 1989 to 1993, he was Senior Vice President for Legislative Affairs at a major national trade association, the American Meat Institute."

[LeftCoastNeoCon]

THE DUPLICATE THREAD HAS BEEN PULLED.

[HenryLeeII]

...[I]t is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology...[and] short-shrifts local communities and local jobs by distance-casting news and weather from hundreds of miles away.

I guess he's talking about ABC's and CBS's news divisions.

[orangelobster]

Michael Copps - “This is an abuse of the public trust. And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative."

Finally, the FCC's own Rip van Winkle, Michael Copps, wakes from his long slumber after corporations have distributed a flood of Kerry campaign propaganda films, to attack the one 45 minute news program that the Kerry campaign objects to. It's clear that the "abuse of power" is on the part of Copps. It will be interesting to see how people get appointed to the FCC.

[EaglesUpForever]

" And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology "

What about when ABC/CBS/CNN/NBC work in concert to blanket the country with their political ideology?

[SeaBiscuit]

Michael Copps - “This is an abuse of the public trust."

No Sir, your an abuse of the public trust, as are the rest of the demonrats.

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[TexasCajun]

I guess we don't have to worry about Moore's putting his propaganda on network television before the election.

Well, maybe?? They are two sets of rules as we know.

[BaBaStooey]

The Today Show devoted three days worth of time to Kitty Kelley and her hack job of a book (which contributed to it being #1 on the bestseller list), less than a month and a half before the election, and the libs are upset about this?

Sinclair is reportedly allowing Kerry equal time on their stations if he wants to respond to the documentary.

[Gracey]

Nominated May 1, 2001; confirmed May 25, 2001; sworn in May 31, 2001. Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at Collins and Aikman Corporation and the American Meat Institute. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He's a leftie. What more can one expect.