Media Ownership Limits - Media reform

Watch FCC Chairman Michael Powell gloat that Americans are apathetic about media ownership, while Republican pundit Frank Luntz badgers the Scarborough audience into not caring who owns what. He says Americans would rather be satisfied pigs rather than an informed citizenry.

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• FCC
• michael
• powell
• media
• reform
• limits
• fox
• news
• tv
• jimmy
• india
• tax
• advertising

[AxiomistScholar]

I'm not american and i'm just finding this out. Can anyone please tell me how this all concluded? I want to put this on my website.

[freespeeeech]

Watch my "clear channel- bush's propoganda machine." This tells a little more about it

[parisdawns]

I find videos like this terrifying. I found out about the proposed media deregulation quite by accident, and no one has any idea what's going on. The point they mentioned about a greater diversity in TV is bullshit. There may be a greater amount of channels, but there is such a small pool of news companies that people watch that that fact is irrelevant. Yet another sign that we are moving away from our "democracy" (we're actually a republic) and into the realms of facism...

[freespeeeech]

Thank you for watching my video and yes it is terrifying. The corporate media is not about to educate the populace on its abuses nor better alternatives. In my posts I propose taxing advertising to publicly fund presidential elections. Media companies are the largest contributers and they profit from political ads. n other words they pass money thru candidates back to themselves. Also advertising is not taxed. A 5% tax would pay for public access stations in every communitytoo.

[Ahabeck001]

(continued from post bewlow)They say things like "Americans believe.." and "most americans feel.." and then throw in their political views because most americans are not involved in politics nearly enough to form their own opinions. News programs like these form their opinions for them. Many people side with whatever they feel is the majority. And this video here may have convinced numerous people they don't care about media regulation.

proving exactly why it is important.

[freespeeeech]

Ahabeck, read the book "cults in our midst" and you will see the corp media is using cult indoctrinatin techniques on their viewing audience. They also want the news to be emotional, not factual. They prey on people's prejudices because sentiment is stronger than common sense.

[randalusa]

Fifty million liberal robots were dumb enough to vote for Al Gore, then John Kerry, then Barack Obama based on lies told and coverups committed by Marxist creeps at ABC, NBC, NPR and CBS. Yet you are worried about Fox News with its reach of 2 million per day, the only station on TV that permits an opinion contrary to the Humanism broadcast everywhere else. Time to stop being told what to think and look around.

[MrFuckyoubitch69]

The truth is that the typical human being isn't paying attention to who owns what. Powerful, THINKING men manipulate the masses because the average person is not a deep thinking being. Most people do not have the ability and or will power to do the research necessary to find out whats really going on concerning ANY situation.

[Burst100]

uhhhhhhhh what? Are you sure? Fox is owned By "News Corporation", one of the Media big six, they definently favor the deregulation. Notice how the anchor is always repeating something along the lines of: "Every Poll I've seen suggests that the people are not upset, and actually for this deregulation". Obviously, they're not going to touch up on the fact that the media can effectively decide what the public do and don't know, which basically allows the media big six to control the public.

[Crazyfish66]

He thinks Americans have more choice?

Im British but i know that 25 years ago 50 corporations owned the media, now its 6. What will he be saying in another 2 years time, "aslong as Americans can choose between gladiators and cop shows, theyre happy" - Either he's one of the dumbest mother fuckers alive or hes a little bitch to the elite agenda

[ChargeMan1991]

Actually....forget what I said earlier.

[ChargeMan1991]

Michael Powell is a buttlicker. He can get hit by a car for all I care!

[madmercenary]

Propaganda and bias

[68NYC]

Thanks for posting!!

[polidocproductions]

The airwaves belong to the public and the media conglomeration is bad for democracy. The public SHOULD care about how the FCC sells access. Even the recent preferential selling off of the highband to already existing owners failed to comprehend that there may be a whole lot of other uses for those signals besides more crap TV