Not a big enough lawsuit to suit me.The right lawsuit would target the FCC and all of its licensees, not just ABC. That lawsuit would demand damages in the billions of dollars and firm regulation by the FCC of the licensee's in-kind political contributions.
"Journalism" is properly a singular noun. It is singular because you can't be accepted as a journalists unless you accept that all journalists are objective. IOW, all journalists will mercilessly attack anyone who claims to be a journalist but who questions the objectivity of a journalist. That means that although journalism has many organs, journalism has a single viewpoint - the conceit that journalism and the public interest are identical.
That means that "objective journalism" is a political party. It follows that the broadcasting of journalism is political advertising on the government's dime, in violation of the Constitution and campaign finance laws.
BTTT
Activist ready to out 'gay' GOP senator Held info on Foley, has vowed to shake up November election
October 5, 2006; 1:00 a.m. Eastern; WorldNetDaily.com
A radical homosexual activist who claims some of the credit for revealing former Rep. Mark Foley's relationships with underage male pages has warned there is more to come, stating on his website earlier this year he would "out" a "gay" Republican senator during the run-up to the mid-term elections.
"Ladies and Gentlemen ... if they want a cultural war, I'll give them a f------ cultural war. Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy 2006," wrote Mike Rogers on his weblog in January – a posting noted by the blog Sweetness & Light
As WND reported, Rogers held on to damaging information about Foley – who abruptly resigned Friday in the wake of revelations – having indicated the story would break just prior to the Nov. 7 congressional elections.
Rogers and another homosexual activist, John Aravosis, developed a "target list" of 20 lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers they believed were hiding their sexual orientation while promoting an "anti-gay" political agenda. The list included Foley and Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland
Rogers claimed that before the Foley story broke, he shared information about the congressman with Bill Burton, the director of communications for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. WND spoke with a Burton assistant, but the director did not respond to a request for comment.
Well said.
...It would indeed be interesting to see a record of the political contributions of FCC employees over the past twenty five years. More than likely it'll mirror those of college professors and Hollywood celebrities.