[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: Urgent: Stop The FCC Rush To More Big Media Consolidation

[A. Artemis]

Yet another example of the Feds doing the opposite of their job.   Please read, then take action.

The Pen <democracy at peaceteam.net> wrote:  Subject:   Urgent: We Need To Stop The FCC Bum Rush To More Big Media Consolidation


There Is Movement In Congress To Restrain The Runaway F.C.C. If We 
Will Support It 

Yes, we know there is a holiday coming up fast. 

But despite mounting and unanimous public opposition, FCC Chairman 
Kevin J. Martin is trying to rush through essentially the same 
further media consolidation into the hands of fewer and fewer giant 
corporations, which was overturned by public pressure in 2003. 

Stop The FCC Action Page: 
http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php 

A bipartisan bill has already been introduced in Congress, The Media 
Ownership Act of 2007 (S.2332), to stop this rash and harmful action. 

At a public hearing (with the bare minimum advance legal notice) in 
Seattle on Nov. 9, presumptively to hear citizen input, Martin turned 
a deaf ear to a thousand protesting voices, and announced the next 
business day he was going to plow ahead with his destructive plan. 
FCC Commissioners Adelstein and Copps were appalled at Martin's 
obliviousness to the public interest, aiming to push through his 
gutting of current rules by December 11, just a couple weeks off. 

S.2332 would start by requiring a full and fair 90 days for the 
public to comment on any such proposed rule changes. It would also 
require protections for localism and diversity of ownership, 
including female and minorities. 

The one click action page above will send your personal message to 
all your members of Congress, and each every one of the FCC 
Commissioners, with the subject "Stop further media consolidation by 
passing S.2332". At the same time you can send your personal comments 
only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper 
if you like. 

OpEdNews Helping To Mobilize Against The FCC 

Because of the extreme urgency of this action, OpEdNews has put out a 
call to all its writers to submit action stories, which link to 
additional action pages on this issue. In this one we learn more 
about current FCC chairman Kevin Martin, that is he is nothing more 
than a plant from the Bush-Cheney transition team, a general council 
for Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign. 

http://www.usalone.com/media_consolidation.htm 

Please read this article and watch for others is this action news 
series. 

We only have until December 11th to make the biggest public record 
possible of the opposition of the American public to this bum rush to 
a virtual media antitrust calamity. We need every possible voice to 
strengthen the hands of Congress, with clear bipartisan support, to 
stop the FCC from totally disregarding their obligation to serve the 
public interest. We need to make the strongest public record of this 
despite the deliberate and hostile short sheeting of the public 
comment period. 

Stop The FCC Action Page: 
http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php 

It is no coincidence that the quality of our news, the life blood of 
our democracy has deteriorated in direct inverse proportion to the 
concentration of ownership of our media into fewer and fewer greedy 
hands. It is no surprise that the level of political debate and 
discourse in our country has degenerated into trivia about diamonds 
and pearls, just as corporate puppet masters have taking greater 
control of what questions are allowed to be addressed. It is no 
wonder that the most worthy of presidential candidates are 
systematically marginalized to try to con the people out of their own 
free choice, with big media kingpins deciding for us who has a chance 
to win and who does not. 

This will be our only chance to stop it. 

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed 
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible. 

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