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
TERRORIST ALERTS: Crying Wolf? and Peace Is Not On-Message
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 03 Aug 2004 10:48 AM CDT
TERRORIST ALERTS: Crying Wolf?
The Independent Institute Orange is the color currently in fashion in the nation’s capital and its main financial center. The U.S. government has once again raised the terror alert level from yellow to orange—this time in Washington, D.C. and New York City—based on information obtained from the arrest of a computer engineer in Pakistan several weeks ago. Yet by frequently changing its colors, the government has cried wolf too many times. New Yorkers and Washingtonians are justifiably skeptical and nonchalant about the heightened warning level. Although urging Americans to “keep shopping” during all prior orange alerts, the government has never told us how to behave differently at various “threat” levels. The rhetoric by Tom Ridge, the nation’s Secretary of Homeland Security, and other anonymous U.S. officials would have us believe that the current threat level is very severe. Yet, they didn’t change the alert system to red, its highest color, probably because people would be too frightened to leave their homes for the shopping mall. Come to think of it, since the inception of the alert system, the government has toggled the levels only between yellow and orange. We’ve never seen blue or green either. (more) Peace Is Not On-Message AlterNet.org The great majority of Democratic voters ardently oppose the war, yet the party has made what appears to be a tactical decision to hide its faith . . . The strong and wrong position won out in the Democratic Party when its voters chose Kerry over Howard Dean in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. An antiwar party rallied around a prowar candidate. The result has been one of the most peculiar political atmospheres within a party in recent memory. The Democrats are united but have concealed the cause that unites them. The party champions free speech that it does not practice. As a Dennis Kucinich delegate at the convention said to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, "Peace" is "off-message." A haze of vagueness and generality hangs over party pronouncements. In his convention speech, President Carter, who is on record opposing the war, spoke against "pre-emptive war" but did not specify which pre-emptive war he had in mind. Al Gore, who has been wonderfully eloquent in his opposition to the war, was tame for the occasion. "Regardless of your opinion at the beginning of this war," he said, "isn't it now abundantly obvious that the way this war has been managed by the Administration has gotten us into very serious trouble?" (more)
DFIA Launches New Events Calendar!
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 03 Aug 2004 05:06 AM CDT
DFIA Launches New Events Calendar!
Democracy for Iowa has our new Events Calendar up and running. You can check here daily to find Democratic events around Iowa. Our candidates have already begun adding their events. Check them out! Click on "Week" over to the left of the calendar, and you'll see a week at a time in list format. Click on the listing itself, and you can access all the details about the event. You can add your own events, too. Click on the link at the top, left sidebar of Blog for Iowa. It will take you to the calendar. To add your event, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Add Event." When adding a listing, be sure to include the town in the title. Only the administrative account is allowed to delete or edit listings, so if you need to make a change or if you are having any problems, contact Linda at blog@democracyforiowa.com. DFA/DFIA has some Meet Ups this week. On Wednesday, we've got one in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. On Thursday, we've got one in Davenport. Check out the Events Calendar for more details. Good luck! Now let's get out there and support our candidates! |
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