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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:50 AM
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Write every commissioner on FCC - demand Sinclair license revocation!
Edited on Sat May-01-04 11:52 AM by Pallas180
Write every commissioner on FCC and demand Sinclair license revocation!


If we get enough letters to the FCC with copies to the press, the FCC can't ignore it. Copies to CBS might be good. and 60 minutes etc Keith Olberman, McCain, your own dem or pug senator

Violation of the US Constitution
Unfounded repeated censorship.
propagandizing


Chairman Michael Powell: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov
Commissioners:
Kathleen.Abernathy@fcc.gov
Michael.Copps@fcc.gov
KJMWEB@fcc.gov (Kevin Martin)
Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov

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leftyandproud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:53 AM
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1. um..
I'm afraid this won't work. It's a private company and they have the right to determine what they broadcast. Technically, only the government has the real power of censorship.
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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 12:02 PM
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2. It's public airwaves though, which we own. And we want his license
revoked. This is not the only instance of their censorship. They
have insisted people speak out against Kerry and others or lose their
jobs. Read some of the other posts on Sinclair.
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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 02:04 PM
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3. Help Senator Dayton get the FCC to act against Sinclair-Write/Call
Edited on Sat May-01-04 02:04 PM by Pallas180

(MN Senator) Dayton urges FCC to probe broadcaster 'Nightline' ban


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., called on federal regulators Friday to investigate whether one of the nation's largest owners of television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., unfairly denied the public access to ABC's "Nightline" program.

(snip)

In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell -- son of Secretary of State Colin Powell -- Dayton said Sinclair's action "highlights the growing danger of media consolidation in this country."

Dayton said it concerns him that a single company can use its public airspace to prevent eight major U.S. markets from seeing politically controversial programming.

(snip)

FCC spokesman David Fiske said he could not say what action the agency might take. "The letter will be read seriously and reviewed seriously," he said. "Congressional mail is always taken very seriously."

(snip)

Dayton, who opposed military action in Iraq, called the "Nightline" program "a public tribute to those soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice."



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