Can You Envision a Balanced Media?
Help Keep the Momentum Going!
Since last week, thousands of progressive-minded Americans have signed Democratic Way's letter calling on the FCC to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting.
Despite
their initial success, it will take tens of thousands of signatures to
get the FCC and big media to take notice. If you haven’t already
signed the letter to the FCC, please do so now.
Can You Envision a Balanced Media?
Please
support DemocraticWay.org's campaign to pressure the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress to reinstate the Fairness
Doctrine in broadcasting.
The FCC
did away with the Fairness Doctrine during the Reagan
administration. This measure simply required that broadcasters,
as a condition of retaining their licenses, offer balancing views on
controversial issues. The nearly forty year-old regulation was an
important safeguard that prevented television and radio broadcasters
from always presenting the news from a single point of view.
Because
of that ill-advised FCC decision, major media conglomerates like Clear
Channel and News Corporation (Fox News) no longer provide any
meaningful platform for minority opinion or dissent. Furthermore,
these conglomerates are becoming increasingly aggressive in using the
public airwaves to promote their own views and interests, often in
direct conflict with the public interest.
Please sign the letter
to the FCC asking that the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting be
reinstated. This was a very important public safeguard that is
needed more today than ever.
Visit www.democraticway.org and learn more about how you can help “fight the right” and join their mission to restore America’s great, progressive party.
View the letter to the FCC at http://www.democraticway.org/petition.php
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Tuesday, August 3
Can You Envision a Balanced Media?
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 03 Aug 2004 05:36 PM CDT
Monday, August 2
Why The Press Failed
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 02 Aug 2004 04:43 PM CDT
Why The Press Failed
AlterNet.org The Bush administration's media strategy was simple: Treat the press as a special interest group and the American public as a market of consumers. It almost worked. When, on May 26, 2004, the editors of the New York Times published a mea culpa for the paper's one-sided reporting on weapons of mass destruction and the Iraq war, they admitted to "a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been." They also commented that they had since come to "wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining claims" made by the Bush Administration. But we are still left to wonder why the Times, like many other major media outlets in this country, was so lacking in skepticism toward administration rationales for war? How could such a poorly thought through policy, based on spurious exile intelligence sources, have been so blithely accepted, even embraced, by so many members of the media? In short, what happened to the press's vaunted role, so carefully spelled out by the Founding Fathers, as a skeptical "watchdog" over government? There's nothing like seeing a well-oiled machine clank to a halt to help you spot problems. (more) |
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