: [Stop the Poisons] STOP BIG MEDIA OWNER-CONSOLIDATION

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At 09:39 AM 11/26/07, you wrote:

>* * * Stop More Big Media Owner-Consolidation * * *

>Posted by: " Fernwoods " Fernwoods fernwoods7

>Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:49 pm (PST)

>

>Stop More Big Media Owner-Consolidation

>

>There Is Movement In Congress To Restrain

>The Runaway F.C.C. If We Will Support It

>

>Yes, we know there is a holiday coming up fast.

>

>But despite mounting and unanimous public opposition, FCC Chairman Kevin J.

>Martin is trying to rush through essentially the same further media

>consolidation into the hands of fewer and fewer giant corporations, which was

>overturned by public pressure in 2003.

>

>_Stop The FCC Action Page_

>(http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php)

>

>A bipartisan bill has already been introduced in Congress, The Media

>Ownership Act of 2007 (S.2332), to stop this rash and harmful action.

>

>At a public hearing (with the bare minimum advance legal notice) in Seattle

>on Nov. 9, presumptively to hear citizen input, Martin turned a deaf ear to a

>thousand protesting voices, and announced the next business day he was going

>to plow ahead with his destructive plan. FCC Commissioners Adelstein and

>Copps were appalled at Martin's

>obliviousness to the public interest, aiming to push through his gutting of

>current rules by December 11, just a couple weeks off.

>

>S.2332 would start by requiring a full and fair 90 days for the public to

>comment on any such proposed rule changes. It would also require protections

>for localism and diversity of ownership, including female and minorities.

>

>The one click action page above will send your personal message to all your

>members of Congress, and each every one of the FCC Commissioners, with the

>subject " Stop further media consolidation by passing S.2332 " . At the same

>time

>you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your

>nearest local daily newspaper if you like.

>

>We only have until December 11th to make the biggest public record possible

>of the opposition of the American public to this bum rush to a virtual media

>antitrust calamity. We need every possible voice to strengthen the hands of

>Congress, with clear bipartisan support, to stop the FCC from totally

>disregarding their obligation to serve the public interest. We need to

>make the

>strongest public record of this despite the deliberate and hostile short

>sheeting

>of the public comment period.

>

>Stop The FCC Action Page: _www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php_

>(http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php)

>

>Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be

>ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

>

>If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at

>_www.usalone.com/in.htm_ (http://www.usalone.com/in.htm) - The People's

>Email Network

 

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