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Urgent Action: Stop Further Media Consolidation!

Written by: Pam Hoye on Nov 24, 2007 4:36 PM EST

From: Alicia Sacks

Subject: Urgent-FCC to further media consolidation

This is very urgent. Dec. 11 is the deadline to contact FCC. Let's inundate them with contacts to stop this madness; it worked last time with Powell. There's a new, even more arrogant Chairman, but if enough of us contact him...

Please pass this on.

Peace, Alicia

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

Facebook Action Page:

http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum738

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.

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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.

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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

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By Michael Ellis on Nov 25, 2007 9:29 PM EST

"A Christmas Story" is...................................FIRST!

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By Susan Rowe on Nov 25, 2007 9:38 PM EST

Dean is still the first!

Enjoy the show Michael. Happy Holiday.

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Retailers buoyed by strong holiday start

The nation's shoppers set aside worries about higher gas prices and a slumping housing market and proved their resilience over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving what the nation's merchants wished for - a strong start to the holiday shopping season.

Stores and malls opened the season as early as midnight, drawing bigger-than-expected crowds Friday for discounted flat-panel TVs, digital cameras and toys such as all things related to Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana." Strong sales continued through Saturday, according to one research group that tracks total sales at retail outlets across the country. ...full article: http://www.fresnobee.com/649/story/22243...

(AP Video) Link Shoppers seek bargains on Black Friday: http://video.ap.org/v/Default.aspx?partn...

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 9:44 PM EST

"A Christmas Story" is...................................FIRST!

Michael I certainly don't begrudge your 'FIRST!'

I live in a part of the world where I don't have access to tv so I'm not able to see A Christmas Story and can't make up my own mind why A Christmas Story could be first.

Hey, can you believe it ? I live in the USA. ~

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 9:53 PM EST

I live in a part of the world where I don't have access to tv

And no access to high speed internet or cell phone reception.

I live less than 10 miles from a United States Capital !

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By puddle on Nov 25, 2007 10:05 PM EST

Me too, sunlight. Except for the capital thang. . .

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By Susan Rowe on Nov 25, 2007 10:05 PM EST

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sunlight
Sun, 11/25/07
9:53 pm

Do you live in a Convent?

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 10:10 PM EST

Do you live in a Convent?

Lol!

What gives you that impression. No, I'm a happily married old guy!~

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 10:18 PM EST

puddle,

you remember when I went on a crusade to get high speed internet access? On my road?

Well,
I failed. My State Representative is not engaged in that subject.
What really upset me was when I received her Newsletter where she proudly proclaimed that she can now have High Speed Internet Access.
She also said that she will continue to complain (to whom?) that not all have access.

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By Reed in V T on Nov 25, 2007 10:22 PM EST

sunlight,
high speed internet is being installed in remote areas down our way...in fact the cable guys and us road crew guys are in each others way all the time lately...same is not happening up there?

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By Reed in V T on Nov 25, 2007 10:25 PM EST

On topic...the airways must be returned to the public...the corporations don't own them!!!

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By Annilow on Nov 25, 2007 10:17 PM EST

This main post is important. Stop the media consolidation.

This very sad article is from this week's Newsweek email. This guy says we're done for economically. To quote my hero (or one of them) David Walker from the article:

But the country is in such a fiscal hole right now that, as David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, told my colleague Jeff Bartholet last week, "You could decide not to renew the Bush tax cuts, you could eliminate all foreign aid, eliminate all earmarks, eliminate NASA, eliminate the National Endowment for Humanities and eliminate the entire Defense Department tomorrow, and you still wouldn't solve the problem."

THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTONMichael Hirsh
In the Realm of the Dying Dollar

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71888?rf=nwne...

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By Reed in V T on Nov 25, 2007 10:29 PM EST

sunlight...who is your rep?

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 10:35 PM EST

...same is not happening up there?

Reed, thanks for your interest.
No, it's not happening up here.

I got a preliminary estimate from Comcast.

It said that it would cost ~$ 40,000 to bring High Speed to me.
It also said that if I would find 14 others to sign up it would cost $50 each.

I collected over 20 signatures.

Then I got an actual estimate of $80,000

But the bummer was: If I would find 14 others to sign up it would cost $ 2548 each.

That's where I got stumped.
The cost of the project doubled (the reason given made sense) but the individual contribution incrcreased more than 5000%

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By sunlight on Nov 25, 2007 10:35 PM EST

Janet Ancel

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By Annilow on Nov 25, 2007 10:30 PM EST

Too cool for school! Play the word game and 'earn' rice for the hungry donated by advertisers (Bloomberg, Itunes, eg)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/25...

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By Reed in V T on Nov 25, 2007 10:42 PM EST

sunlight,
I'll look into it for you. Basically every road that is maintained by the town I work for is having high speed installed at no added cost...just you basic fee for signing on from my understanding. I thought this was happening state wide.
I'll get back to you.

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By Annilow on Nov 25, 2007 10:45 PM EST

13. I donated 310 grains of rice and made it to level 46 before I got shot down. Now I think I will say Gutnacht (I think that's how you spell it.) Michael Ellis I hope you enjoyed your movie and your cookies. Xmas turns us all into kids.

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By puddle on Nov 26, 2007 12:09 AM EST

Ah, sunlight, I do remember! And you were so *close*!! I wuz so proud of you for trying. So sorry it didn't work. I'm thinkin' about Wild Blue or something like that. . . .

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