URGENT, CALL Senators to Rollback FCC Media Ownership Rules.

September 4, 2003

The fight to roll back the FCC media ownership rules is far from over.

The SENATE Appropriations Committee votes this Thursday(Sep. 4th)

evening on the rollback. Intense pressure -- this time through a

NATIONAL PHONE /EMAIL CAMPAIGN-- is absolutely critical .

Congressional staffers say CALLS are highly effective.

The Bush Administration's FCC is on the ropes, as their attempts to

quietly relax media ownership rules and unleash monopoly mega-media

on our TV, radio, and newspapers are stalling for the first time in

history.

Why? Because over 2.3 million Americans spoke up against

anti-democratic media rules and led a historic effort to put media

policy into the public spotlight.

Thursday's rollback vote includes the crucial " cross-ownership "

provision that prevents one conglomerate from owning the major daily

newspaper plus multiple TV and radio stations in one town.

IT IS URGENT TO CALL/EMAIL TO SENATORS.

Enclosed a SAMPLE LETTER and ALL CONTACT INFO

for your references. Every Contact is important to reach. Thanks.

Background information are posted at

http://www.mediareform.net/callcongress

For more references :

http://www.mediareform.net/callcongress

http://www.mediareform.net

http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/030903/161/55j93.html

http://story.news./fc?cid=34 & tmpl=fc & in=World & cat=Media_Watch

http://www.mediareform.net/washington.php

This is an important article to read :

http://www.marchforjustice.com/BushResume.php

Alternative news sites :

1: http://www.marchforjustice.com/

2: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

3: http://www.mideastfacts.com/

4: http://www.counterpunch.org/

5: http://www.democracynow.org/

6: http://www.truthout.org/

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(Note: You are most welcome to write your own letters and

express your own opinions. thanks . )

SAMPLE LETTER : (Please place your Name, Address, City, State,

Zip at the BEGINNING and END of your letter and state that

you are a US Constituent or a US Voter if you live in US :

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Subject : Please Vote For a Rollback FCC Media Ownership Rules.

Your Name,

Your City,

Your State, and Your Zip code

(US Constituents or US Voters if you live in US)

Dear Senator ,

As a concerned constituent and voter, I urge you to

to vote for a rollback of the June 2nd FCC media ownership

rules that includes the Cross-Ownership rule.

One company should not be allowed to own a newspaper,

television stations and radio stations all in the same community.

The new media ownership rules endanger our Democracy,

Freedom of Speech and Competition . I urge you please

make efforts to prevent this erosion of our nation's most

important Democratic process. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Your Name,

Your City,

State , Zip Code.

(US Constituents or U.S. Voters, if you live in U.S.)

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

There are 4 categories of the Contacts.

NOTE: Please CALL , politely ask Senator :

" I am calling to urge the Senator to vote for a rollback

of the June 2nd FCC media ownership rules that includes the

cross-ownership rule. One company should not be allowed

to own a newspaper, television stations and radio stations

all in the same community. Thank you for your time. "

1: IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO CONTACT :

Your two US Senators . Address to : Dear Senator.

Click http://capitoladvantage.com/h2/ or

Click: http://www.capwiz.com/

Then enter your ZIP CODE on the right side of the screen

under " Elected officials " , then click " go " . You will find

all of the 'federal elected officials' .

Please CALL your two Senators and tell them your are their

Constituents. Politely ask them to

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2: CONTACT EVERY SENATOR IN

APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE , especially Republican Senator:

(The following list is extracted from :

http://appropriations.senate.gov/members/members.htm )

PLEASE EMAIL and then CALL EVERYONE OF THEM :

a: Chairman Senator Ted Steven®:

Email: http://www.senate.gov/%7Estevens/webform.htm

Tel: 202- 224-3004

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b: Thad Cochran ®: Tel: 202-224-5054

Email: http://cochran.senate.gov/contact.htm

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c: Arlen_specter®: Tel: 202-224-4254

Email: arlen_specter

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d: PETE V. DOMENICI® : Tel: (202) 224-6621

Email: http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

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e: Christopher Bond®:

Email: http://bond.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

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f: Mitch McConnell®: Tel; (202) 224-2541

Email: senator

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g: Richard Shelby®: Tel: (202) 224-5744

Email: senator

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h: Judd Gregg®: Tel: (202) 224-3324

Email: mailbox

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i: Robert Bennett ® : Tel: (202) 224-5444

Email: http://www.senate.gov/%7Ebennett/e-mail_form.html

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j: Ben Campbell®: Tel: 202-224-5852

Email: http://campbell.senate.gov/email.htm

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k: Larry Craig®: Tel: 202/224-2752

Email: http://craig.senate.gov/webform.html

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l: Kay Bailey Hutchison® : Tel: 202-224-5922

Email: ADMINISTRATOR

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m: Mike Dewine ® : Tel; (202) 224-2315

Email: caseworker_dewine

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n: Sam Brownback® : Tel: (202)224-6521

Email: http://brownback.senate.gov/CMEmailMe.htm

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o: Robert Byrd (D) : Ranking member : Tel: (202) 224-3954

http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

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p: Harry Reid (D) : Tel: 202-224-3542

(* he is the only Democratic Senator against FCC

media ownership rollback.)

Email: http://www.senate.gov/%7Ereid/email_form.cfm

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3: CONTACT ALL OF THE US SENATORS :

It is very IMPORTANT to let all Senators know public opinions :

Please Copy the following list and Paste into BCC field in your Email.

Then put your other different Email address in the TO field

Before you hit Send, please carefully check everything correctly !

Special NOTE:

a: Please put your name and detail address at the BEGINNING

and sign as " US Constituents " or " US Voters " , if you live in USA.

b: It must have a comma between the addresses .

Please address to : Dear Senator, or: Dear Honorable Senator,

*****ATTENTION: Please DIVIDE the following list into smaller

list contains for no more than 45 email addresses each time in your

BCC field due to some ISP may not allow for more than 50 email

addresses each time in BCC or CC field in your email !!!

NOTE: The following list are extracted from :

http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm

admin,

administrator,

blanche_lincoln,

bob_graham,

chuck_grassley,

chuck_hagel,

civis ,

comments,

conrad_burns,

craig,

curator,

David.Byrne,

development,

dgregio,

dick,

frank_lautenberg,

herta.daeubler-gmelin,

historian,

ictr-press ,

info,

information,

jack,

jesse_helms,

jim_bunning,

jim_inhofe,

john_kerry,

kit_bond,

larry_craig,

mail ,

mailbox,

max,

olympia,

opinion,

Oregon,

pat_roberts,

phil_gramm,

postmaster,

publicaffairs,

robert.aderholt,

russell_feingold

sam_brownback,

senator.hutchinson,

arlen_specter,

ADMINISTRATOR,

caseworker_dewine,

senator,

Senator,

senator,

senator_allard,

senator_bingaman,

senator_byrd,

senator_carnahan,

senator_chafee,

senator_dewine,

senator_domenici,

senator_fitzgerald,

senator_frist,

senator_gorton,

senator_hatch,

senator_kohl,

senator_leahy,

senator_lugar,

senator_max_cleland,

senator_mccain,

senator_murray,

senator_reid,

senator_robb,

senator_specter,

senator_thompson,

senator_torricelli,

senator_voinovich,

senator2,

senatorlott,

tim,

tim_johnson,

tom_daschle,

tom_harkin,

vermont,

webmaster,

Year2000,

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4: MEDIA CONTACTS : There are A and B two categories :

A: PLEASE CONTACT Some IMPORTANT US MEDIA :

Please address to : Dear Editor ,

Please write to the following TV network :

a1 : CBS Evening News

Phone: 212-975-3691

Email: evening (@cbsnews.com )

a2 : NBC Nightly News

Phone: 212-664-4971

Email: nightly (@nbc.com )

a3 : Please Contact Peter Jennings : ABC World News Tonight

Tel : (212) 456-4025

Fax : (212) 456-2381

Email: PeterJennings (@abcnews.com )

a4: Contact New York Times:

nytnews, oped,

president, publisher,

society, washington,

web-editor,

a5: CNN HeadLine News executives :

Please Copy the following list and Paste in the

BCC field. It must have a comma between addresses :

Please address to : Dear Editor,

robert.novak,

cameron.baird,

james.broyles,

jason.evans,

judy.fortin,

bill.galvin,

susan.jalali,

kurt.kasting,

tim.mallon,

wade.mckinney,

jerry.mihoch,

stephanie.minter,

dennis.newman,

alan.schrack,

rolando.santos,

steve.shusman,

jennifer.c.,

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B: CONTACT MAJOR MEDIA and YOUR LOCAL MEDIA

B1: Please send " Letter to Editors " to the Newspapers Editors.

Please address to: Dear Editor,

Now please Click : http://www.opedletters.com/

b1: You may select the " Mass-mail to all states " to let

all editors know your opinions on the issue.

b2: Or click on your State, then select

" Mass-mail a letter to ..... state newspapers. " .

b3: Or select each news paper on your State . Then click :

" Letter Submission (via e-mail) " under each newspaper.

B2 : Find US major media and local media contact info :

Please click: http://capwiz.com/vision/dbq/media/

Then enter your local Zip Code , then click right side " Go " ,

It will show up the National Media Organizations first ,

then click on each Media Name itself (do not place a check ),

it will show all of the important Editor's names , for example

Managing Editors , Editor in Chief etc. and then click on

the name , you will find their corresponding email address and

contact info. Please try to send to as many KEY Editors as you

could TO ALL OF THE NATIONAL MAJOR MEDIA .

NOTE: Please COPY editor's email address and then go to your

Outlook Express to send your email. The main reason for this

is that there is a limited space available if you send thru their

site.

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Thanks for your urgent efforts for our Free Speech and Democracy.

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