The house ROLLED BACK the FCC changes!!!!!!!!!!!
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from vj :
]The house ROLLED BACK the FCC changes!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry - that was meant for a different group!
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Congratulations anyway!! Where ever it was meant to go...and no matter what it means.. you sound so happy! Diana
Ummmm, okay. Congrats! Whatever that means - it sounds like it's great, and you had a hand in making the change. :)
lol...we're doing the happy dance at our house too! Those phone calls, emails, and letters do sometimes work! Yay!
Best, Deborah
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :
]Ummmm, okay. Congrats! Whatever that means - it sounds like it's great, ]and you had a hand in making the change. :)
uhm - only as far as signing petitions and writing legislators - that sort of thing.
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It means, mostly, that the FCC was trying to make some regulatory changes which would have allowed *one* corporation to own all the media outlets in a given area rather than having independent ownership of the newspaper, radio stations, and TV stations. There was a huge grassroots counter-lobbying effort, and Congress overruled the FCC.
In case anyone has missed the trend, we (as a country) are currently on the side of the wave leading *toward* increased monopolization in just about all fields of endeavor; the antitrust laws are not being enforced with the sort of vigor that they were 50 years ago. This is a recurring cycle, and hopefully within the next 20 years or so the wave will crest, new and better antitrust laws will be enacted and enforced, and we'll be back to real competition again.
Celine
I am glad to see the pendulum starting to swing in the other direction. I guess I would say I am after pluralism in the media more than competition, but however you slice it ... more diverse viewpoints visibly represented can only be a Good Thing , IMO.
Deirdre
Succinctly put.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :
]Are you all talking about things like AOHellTimeWarner and Microshaft and ]the phone companies? If you are, I am all for making sure companies like ]that don't own any more. They're too huge as it is. :) More power to you!
not yet. television and radio syndicates - one company buying up all the stations they can.
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So that's why the CEO of Clear Channel was all over the talk shows yesterday! I didn't know that they also own the majority of concert promotions and venues in the country and blackmail recording artists to perform for free at their stations or else their shows don't get promoted and also if you try and use another promoter you are in danger of not getting airplay. Is that why I haven't heard a single cut from Tom Petty's last couple of CDs?
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Louis Cage" :
]Is that why I haven't heard a single cut from Tom Petty's last couple of ]CDs?
i honestly have NO idea, but it's a possibility. now, if they would just ENFORCE the existing rules . . .
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Having multiple--and conflicting-- viewpoints to compare forces us to develop our own judgment, instead of just believing whatever we are told, because it comes from 'official' sources.
Deirdre
Well, crud.
But this is the danger of monopolies. Like the Blob, they either swallow everything in their path, or else crush what gets in their way.
Deirdre
Suppress those you disagree with the most, and you give them more justification for suppressing you... which they would do with a smile on their faces, feeling totally righteous in the process.
I think that -if- more people developed critical judgment through exposure to many viewpoints, they would begin to see through the demagogs much more readily.
Deirdre
Yes, I totally agree here. Suppression is never healthy in any venue and only leads to backlash anger which can be used to fuel all sorts of silliness, sometimes to disastrous effect. It's healthiest to allow everyone their say and to hope that reason and common sense haven't completely fallen off the face of the earth.
Laura
Absolutely! This is the entire thrust of much of the fundamentalist Christian movement -- they know that exposure to other views will reveal the flaws in their own, so they want to prevent their children from any chance of getting such exposure. (This ties back into the Homeschooling thread...)
I've actually gotten to watch the process happen a few times, in my other newsgroup, when people who have been isolated and conditioned by the fundies but who have *not* stopped being able to think came in and started actually hearing other viewpoints. Over time, they grew away from their original attitudes. The key is to keep them from being frightened off before the thought processes start to kick in!
Celine
Yes, with the result that people have fewer options, and those they do have tend to be of lower quality because there's no competition. Note that this holds for religions as well as corporations!
Celine
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :
]Suppress those you disagree with the most, and you give them more ]justification for suppressing you... which they would do with a smile ]on their faces, feeling totally righteous in the process. ] ]I think that -if- more people developed critical judgment through ]exposure to many viewpoints, they would begin to see through the ]demagogs much more readily.
i don't disagree with you at all. my HOPE is that the more outrageous they sound, the more people will turn away from them.
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :
]Exactly!! Kind of like letting them dig their own grave.
well, that's what i hope for, anyway.
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