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

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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_ (htt

p://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.

 

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