by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Big Media and their sock puppets at the FCC have engineered a massive theft of public resources -- the giveaway of more than ten thousand newly minted digital TV channels to themselves. They have finagled the regulatory process to exclude community groups, unions, local entrepreneurs, women, African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, colleges, universities or local government entities from even being able to ask about getting channels for themselves, and imposed a news blackout on their evil deed. Their theft is settled law now, to be consummated in February 2009.
Their only fear is that the nationwide movement for media justice will awaken in time to inform and arouse the American people as it did 2003. A parade of pot-bellied naked corporate thieves are hoping nobody notices the crime scene or their progress to and from it, until it's too late.
The FCC and the Emperors of TV Have No Clothes
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
“...this is a country of laws, as the elite like to tell us, and FCC decisions, no matter how transparently undemocratic and crazy, are indeed the law.”
Every now and then, the powers that be overreach themselves with a move so transparently greedy, self-serving and counter to the public interest that even with platoons of pundits and absolute control over the media they know they are absolutely unable to publicly justify themselves. One such moment occurred in 2003, when the Federal Communications Commission gave the green light to any of the half dozen Big Media corporations to own virtually all the TV and radio stations in any US market, along with its daily newspapers.
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