The corporate media understands that change is in store if Kerry wins...

[kentuck]

They have had a free ticket to the candy store since Reagan let the Fairness Doctrine collapse. They have suckered political candidates for millions and millions of dollars in campaign ads and have maneuvered themselves to create controversies so candidates and political Parties would spend fortunes on their television stations. This money pays the salaries of most of their talking heads and leaves most of their profits to their shareholders.

So, do not be mistaken. The corporate media has a vested interest in this election. They stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. But they have to keep their agenda secret. They broadcast in their own self interest, just like everyone operates in their own self interest. They have become Republican operatives. They know that will change if the FCC is changed and the Fairness Doctrine is reinstated.

[Protagoras]

1. While I'd like to believe this...

Has Kerry made any official statements about re-instituting the Fairness Doctrine or firing Powell and his cronies from the FCC? This has been one issue which I have really wanted to hear something concrete but where I have heard only silence.

[Catfight]

3. I agree, what's Kerry's position? I'd like to have a bill introduced that

states no affiliation to political parties if they have any connection to the media.

[liveoaktx]

4. Yes, he talked about this at the Unity Conference

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000603126

[kentuck]

10. "responding to a question at a minority journalists..."

"responding to a question at a minority journalists convention in Washington on Aug. 5"
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That's about when he started going downhill and they turned on him.

[kentuck]

7. Kerry could not come right out and say it....

Otherwise, he would never have won the primary. Remember that Howard Dean did say he would reinstate the Doctrine and soon thereafter, we had the infamous "scream" and the demise of Howard Dean.

But, the media have assumed they are in safer waters with Bush than with Kerry and do not want to take any chances of losing their candy store, in my opinion.

[liveoaktx]

2. Yup, that's why there was very little coverage of the Telecomm Act

[liberalnurse]

5. We can evoke change if we rule the House and Senate....

I think......Maybe a veto would stop it....:think:

[Myrina]

6. Wouldn't his proposal have to get thru Congress ?

If the Puggies still hold an advantage after the election, it doesn't really matter WHAT Kerry intends to do, they're gridlock him just like they did to Big Dog.

[liveoaktx]

12. FCC appointed positions

Importance of voting Dem-Mark Lloyd

[opihimoimoi]

8. But if the Nation goes down....who will care? It will all be moot.

The American People should be looking for the Truth and Reason as advocates of Good Policy and stewards of good Leadership. Without a free press...we run the risk of having less than best in the Office of the President. As it is, our Press in unbalanced.

In the case of Bush However, it has gotten so bad we have "Less the B average" ... We got a C grade guy whot talks, acts, and decides in a C way/style/manner.

Look all around us... look at the confirming evidence. We Could do Better... but we all wanna have a beer with Bush and will happily accept the status quo. WE refuse Better by swallowing the Pub Tripe and believing its chops.

America has become Moot with the aid of whores in the Press taking all those pieces of Gold. We got sold out by greed folks.

[punpirate]

9. Let's put it this way...

... if the Democrats, including Kerry, haven't figured out that bowing to the corporate poobahs of megamedia has done them great damage in the past near twenty years, then they'll have a tough time of the next few years, even if they win this election.

If they don't fix the problem, they'll not only be a part of it, they'll suffer mightily if they win. They'll also suffer mightily if they don't, too.

Key to this, as you say, is the Fairness Doctrine. If they don't get that reinstated, we'll all be saying, a couple of years from now, "was that twit railing against Clinton, or Kerry? I missed it."

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Not to correct yuo my friend

but it is not hundreds of million, we are quite possibly talking trillions here when all media is taken into account

[ladjf]

13. For what it's worth.

Just days after Gov. Dean announced that the consolidation of media ownership problem needed to be addressed, Dean was suddenly sabotaged by the media by way of the "scream". There is no proof of the connection between his comments about the media and the hits but circumstantially, it appears that he hit their panic button.