Let's be CLEAR why media is acting complicitly with BushInc against Kerry.

[blm]

And WHY they protected BushInc so often in 2004 and WHY they are denying facts in order to create reasons to knock Kerry out - not that they will, many Americans are catching on to their abuse of facts.




Kerry Seeks to Reverse FCC's "Wrongheaded Vote"

Commission Decision May Violate Laws Protecting Small Businesses; Kerry to File Resolution of Disapproval

Monday, June 2, 2003

WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry today announced plans to file a "Resolution of Disapproval" as a means to overturn today's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise media ownership caps and loosen various media cross-ownership rules.
Kerry will soon introduce the resolution seeking to reverse this action under the Congressional Review Act and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act on the grounds that the decision may violate the laws intended to protect America's small businesses and allow them an opportunity to compete.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerry expressed concern that the FCC's decision will hurt localism, reduce diversity, and will allow media monopolies to flourish. This raises significant concerns about the potential negative impacts the decision will have on small businesses and their ability to compete in today's media marketplace.

In a statement released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision, Kerry said:

"Nothing is more important in a democracy than public access to debates and information, which lift up our discourse and give Americans an opportunity to make honest informed choices. Today's wrongheaded vote by the Republican members of the FCC to loosen media ownership rules shows a dangerous indifference to the consolidation of power in the hands of a few large entities rather than promoting diversity and independence at the local level. The FCC should do more than rubber stamp the business plans of narrow economic interests.

"Today's vote is a complete dereliction of duty. The Commissioners are well aware that these rules greatly influence the competitive structure of the industry and protect the public's access to multiple sources of information and media. It is the Commission's responsibility to ensure that the rules serve our national goals of diversity, competition, and localism in media. With today's vote, they shirked that responsibility and have dismissed any serious discussion about the impact of media consolidation on our own democracy."


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[jwirr]

1. Go John, he knows where the real problem rests. We no longer

have a free press, we have an owned press!

[blm]

2. Corpmedia doesn't want guy who uncovered IranContra and BCCI to get an INCH

of room or power to scrutinize THEM.

[Demeter]

5. He Can Always Do It From the Outside

President Pelosi can put him in charge of a Presidential Commission to investigate media monopolies. He'd do a better job that way, anyhow.

[rman]

15. The big corporate owners of the MSM are the ones who don't want

a man like Kerry in a position of power. Although they have ways of dealing with such situations, they'd rather not have to do that. People might start noticing... "What, another JFK?"
The MSM themselves, they're just owned; they want what their owners want.

[blm]

16. Because some of those owners are also WAR PROFITEERS.

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[rman]

19. They literally own half the planet.

That's stretching it a bit because probably not all of the couple of hundred multi-billionaires who collectively own half of all the wealth on this planet, are equally guilty. But it's not stretching it a lot.

It is about more than war profiteering. That's just one of several sources of income. If it's not war as in "armed conflict" then it is economic war. If not that then it is subversion, insurgency, coups, assassinations. War is the final option.
Colonialism, neo-colonialism, "globalization" - different methods, same effect: wealth flowing from the many to the few.

Of course this can't be done out in the open. That's why there is all this deception, secrecy and lies. And propaganda.

The so-called New World Order is essentially about making it official. Which of course will help consolidate yet more power and wealth for the rulers of the world.

[danalytical]

3. That's great news.

Last night I watched the "internet reporter" claiming to have reaction from frontline troops about Kerry's comments. They used ONE blog site and read off about 3 obviously right wing responses to a misinterpreted out of context line from Kerry's speech. CNN didn't even pretend to be fair or balanced, they offered no explanation of Kerry's comments and no context at all. I was furious, and I sent an angry email (not like it matters) to CNN. Bastards!

[wisteria]

4. They fear him because he is really honest and would clear out all of

these crooks.

[SouthernBelle82]

7. Exactly

Just look at Kerry's track record. I think this is their greatest fear is him getting a lot of power to get out the crooks and he will do it too.

[SouthernBelle82]

6. Good news!

Kerry is on a roll. He knows the whole deal from his own experiences. Remember in the beginning when he started campaigning the media ignored him and also Dennis Kucinich. In Nancy Pelosi's daughters documentary about the DNC primary's she showed the media hardly speaking to Senator Kerry. This is also good news for real journalists instead of hacks and also progressive talk as well I think to give everyone a fair chance.

[razors edge]

8. Howard Dean was for the same agenda,

so it was no surprise the "SCREAM" was played a million times.

[blm]

9. I think that's why some establishment Dems are targeting both Dean and Kerry

for takedowns after next week. I don't think either one of them will give in to them.

[razors edge]

10. Never back down. n/t

[tishaLA]

11. I think it's because it fits the media's narrative about him

that was established in 04 with the swift boaters, exacerbated by some perverse guilt about Vietnam. Any utterance about Kerry that fits the media's narrative about Kerry even in the most tangential way--that he is anti-troop, anti-military, elitist--allows the lazy media to repeat their well-scripted lines. They are the same lies they told in 04. They just have to dust them off. It's easier than doing real work.

[blm]

12. This stuff was planted by operatives back in the Nixon WH and have been

ginned up for decades by other GOP administrations whose corruption was being uncovered and exposed by Kerry.

After all this time, the GOPs really have nothing on Kerry and need to MAKE SHIT UP to create any smears against him.

[bigpathpaul]

13. The media need a new story every news cycle

This is why they're running with this.

The important thing is to do exactly waht "the other side" does. Olbermann got it completely right. Shrub and crew knew EXACTLY what Kerry meant, but they seized the opportunity. Turn it around.

Bush Apology To America.

[blm]

14. Keith did the most important news commentary of the decade last night.

If only Ed Murrow was running the entire newsroom.

[pacalo]

17. Kickaroonie. :)

[madfloridian]

18. Recommended.

This is another organized media takedown...I am sick of it. I am sick over the ones who ran so quickly from him, and I won't forget who they were.

Because it is not just about Kerry at all. It is about strategic organized takedowns and cowardly Democrats who won't stand up for each other.

The takedown is about all of us not just Kerry

[blm]

24. Hillary found a camera to condemn Kerry but can't find one to condemn Boehner?

.

[madfloridian]

20. I have been so angry about this issue....it brings back memories

of when it happened to someone else we know. The combination of Cowardly Dems urged by Rahm and Schumer to make Kerry an issue by telling him to stay away...plus the complicit media..is a combo that can at any moment try to take down any candidate, any person.

It is about all of us. One does not need to have been a Kerry supporter to see it. One does not need to have been a Dean supporter to have seen it. It is a scary thing.
What people are doing to Kerry shows we are fearful of the right wing.

[thingfisher]

21. Jeraldo Riviera (that jerk) called

Kerry a jerk!! Now that he has ended up on the FOX network (where I guess he belongs) he piles on with the rest of the pack. Riviera is such an opportunistic creep! He loves to pose as some gonzo investigative journalist when all he is is a craven media shill who will do anything to stay on the air. What a shit!

[Disturbed]

22. Raygun started it. B. Clinton solidiffied it.

The Media Moguls will do whatever to keep their Corp. Empires. The RWing profits from this as do the Media Corps.

[karynnj]

27. Well - he said earlier this year that he had more military experience

than Kerry.

[Doctor_J]

23. Because the media are all owned, run, and staffed by wingers

Don't read too much into this. Basically everyone who gets a job in the Big Media is a Repub, or has to act like one to keep his/her job.

[conscious evolution]

25. Co-conspirators in war crimes n/t

[JudyM]

26. Whoa. Interesting news. K&R nt

[last_texas_dem]

28. Good point

I think the corporate media in general is so bought and paid for that they will work to take down any Democrat who seems to be gaining enough of a following that it could threaten their ownership. Witness how the media treated Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry... the list goes on. They were basically positive to neutral towards all three of these men until they started to look like they might succeed at becoming President. The fact that they have been generally hospitable towards, for example, Barack Obama, only makes me wonder what they will use against him if he actually becomes a leading Presidential candidate.

[earth mom]

29. It's obvious that the corporate media is pushing who they want to run.

They hate Kerry, they hate Dean, they hate Gore-they hate anyone who will disrupt the status quo. They love Obama and Hillary because they have proven that they won't rock the boat.

Unless and until the entire country understands this and fights it, we won't see the kind of change we want. I say boycott the hell out of their news programs NOW. :grr:

[young_at_heart]

30. Why did the corporate media ignore Bush's wire in 2004?

If that had been Kerry or any other Democrat they would have covered it 24/7. The media is running the country!

[blm]

31. The newsmedia is the Public Relations Dept for BushInc.

Creating a national scandal out of a dropped pronoun?

Dem "strategists" advising Dems to side with Bush over Kerry over a dropped pronoun?

[Efilroft Sul]

32. The real reasons why big broadcast media types will side with Bush.

1. Because they're the ones benefitting from Bush's tax breaks.
2. Access to Republican power is beneficial to their careers.
3. The media are only as liberal as their owners. If a talking head takes a stand like Olbermann but doesn't have his ratings, he or she will get blacklisted.

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine, greatly reduce the number of communication outlets any single company can have in a media market, and repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Then we'll see honesty and fairness restored to the media, instead of the shit they try to force-feed the Schiavo viewers.

[blm]

33. Well, guess who gets to call hearings on Corpmedia next year?

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