{"id":712,"date":"2007-12-18T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=712"},"modified":"2007-12-18T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T23:54:08","slug":"the-fccs-big-media-welfare-act-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"The FCC’s Big Media Welfare Act Of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tell<\/a>As expected, the Politburo<\/s>, oops, I mean the FCC voted today<\/a> to loosen ownership regulations, providing Big Media the opportunity to get even bigger. They split 3 to 2 along party lines with Republicans following their Chairman, Kevin Martin.<\/p>\n

Prior to the vote, 26 senators signed a letter to Martin asking that he delay the vote until more research had been done to ascertain the impact of the proposed regs on local media and diversity. They advised the Commission that if the regs were passed that Congress would “immediately move legislation that will revoke and nullify the proposed rule.”<\/em> Amongst the signers were conservative Republicans like Trent Lott and Ted Stevens.<\/p>\n

Despite the warning, the FCC’s Republican majority rammed through the regs showing overt contempt for Congress and the thousands of citizens who attended public hearings to object to Martin’s give-away to the giant media monopolies. Now we must send an unambiguous response to Martin and his cronies. We must reinforce the support we’ve received so far from Congress. It is safe to assume that, even if Congress passes a bill to revoke these rules, the President will not sign it. So we must make sure that we have a veto-proof vote.<\/p>\n

This all starts by communicating with our representatives to let them know that we are paying attention and that we will not retreat from this battle. Go to FreePress<\/a> and sign their “Open Letter to Congress”<\/em> and then tell your friends to do the same. We beat them before and we can do it again, but it will take the participation of every one of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, the Politburo, oops, I mean the FCC voted today to loosen ownership regulations, providing Big Media the opportunity to get even bigger. They split 3 to 2 along party lines with Republicans following their Chairman, Kevin Martin. Prior to the vote, 26 senators signed a letter to Martin asking that he delay the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[1138,86],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-general","tag-fcc","tag-kevin-martin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":662,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=662","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":0},"title":"Stop Big Media – Support Dorgan\/Lott","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/10\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The FCC's proposed new rules aimed at advancing the interests of Big Media conglomerates, and permitting them to get even bigger and more powerful, now face a legislative hurdle courtesy of Senators Byron Dorgan and Trent Lott. 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