The FIRST thing an INVADING Force does is take over TV & Radio Stations...

[elehhhhna]

So when, exactly did the Neocons invade America? Late 90's?
These airwaves are OURS, people. Shall we march to take them back? WHEN?

[LightningFlash]

1. Airwaves??

No they have the lapdog press....Own the radios is another story. Air America Radio and tons of other radio stations are owned by the people....

[elehhhhna]

2. It would be hard for local TV affilliates to ignore DSM protesters at

their front doors...

[KharmaTrain]

3. Thank Herbert Hoover

It goes that far back...1927 when he became broadcasting czar and handed over the broadcast dial to corporate interests. Fast forward to Ronnie Raygun who then wiped away a lot of the regulations that started allowing the large corporations to get even larger. Lastly, and sadly, thank Bill Clinton for DeReg '96 that let the monster really grow...gobbling up thousands of radio stations and monopolizing the television dial. For all intents and purpose we never really had the airwaves.

We do, however, have many resources and ways to "take back those airwaves"...or at least get our voices heard. In the 60's, when a corporate media thought us "young kids" were a pain, we created an alternative media...using free press, music, Progressive and college radio stations and protests to both get our voices heard and to energize our own cause.

As someone else has said around here...it's time to stop banging on the keyboards and start pounding the shoe leather. Stop the angst and bitching and start working to make changes.

[Karenina]

4. Corporate media's headquarters

studios and remote trucks need to be confronted DAILY by American citizens DEMANDING they STOP LYING AND OBFUSCATING!

Here's how thed do it in Denver.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3880226

[noonwitch]

5. Our media will be like Kent Brockman

"And I, for one, welcome our insect overlords"

[Karenina]

6. QUICK! Somebody defuse this thing!!!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Ever here of Operation Mockingbird? If not, read this link....

Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html>

QUOTE:

Under the guise of 'American' objectives and lack of congressional oversight, the CIA accomplish their exploits by using every trick in the book (and they know quite a few) that they actually teach in the notorious "School of the Americas", nicknamed the "School of Dictators" and "School of Assassins" by critics. The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that 6 million people had died by 1987 as a result of CIA covert operations, called an "American Holocaust" by former State Department official William Blum. In 1948, the CIA recreated its covert action wing called the Office of Policy Coordination with Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner as its first director. Another early elitist who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961 was Allen Dulles, a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other trusts, corporations, and cartels.

Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.

Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.