The Kochs and Murdoch will never see this one coming

[Scuba]

from my email ....

rom: "John Sellers, The Other 98%" <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Kochs and Murdoch will never see this one coming.
Date: June 3, 2013 10:07:23 AM CDT


Reply-To: [e-mail]

Howdy Scuba -

Over 1,900 folks have stepped up and pledged to help us buy major newspaper publishers The Tribune Company before the likes of Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers can get their sinister hands on them.

Our crowdfunding campaign has been all over the news, spawning major stories on the corporate consolidation of our media in places like CBS, Bloomberg and the Huffington Post.

[link:http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sRImq9CHv8qrgJ40sgy%2FLL9NnrlDa4vS|Now we're shifting into overdrive. And we need your help.
]
We need to raise $3500 to run hard-hitting ads on the online homes of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Company newspapers. If major newspapers are flirting with far-right billionaire ownership and corporate consolidation, we want to make sure their readers know.

The ads will have a simple message: "Don't Let Rupert Murdoch or the Koch Brothers Buy This Newspaper. Crowdsource it with us instead."

We believe that you can help us make this an even bigger national referendum on community owned media vs. corporate controlled media.

Help us make this a national story. Help us Free the Press.

Thanks for all you do to make this movement real.

Sincerely,

John Sellers, The Other 98%

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm sure they'll see it coming...but they won't be able to stop it.

We get the LA Times, and if they got control, I would really miss it.

[joeunderdog]

2. George Bush JR's first order of business:

Media consolidation thru relaxed FCC rules. Bipartisan resistance was 90%. Didn't matter.

They sold the Iraq war and every other RW angle they wanted to. The rest is history and it's getting even worse.

[siligut]

3. FCC rules changed during Reagan administration, but Bush Sr was in charge of it

And yes, media consolidation was the goal.

[bvar22]

4. It was Bill Clinton who signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first significant overhaul of United States telecommunications law in more than sixty years, amending the Communications Act of 1934. The Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, represented a major change in American telecommunication law, since it was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment.

One of the most controversial titles was Title 3 ("Cable Services&quot , which allowed for media cross-ownership.[2] According to the FCC, the goal of the law was to "let anyone enter any communications business – to let any communications business compete in any market against any other." The legislation's primary goal was deregulation of the converging broadcasting and telecommunications markets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

THIS was the major change in our previously regulated Communications Industry.
This De-Regulation, passed through Congress with the help of "Centrist" Democrats, and signed into LAW by Centrist Democratic President Bill Clinton made Media Empires inevitable.


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I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
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You will know them by their WORKS.

[abq e streeter]

6. Thank you. Important to point things like this out; many Democrats are not blameless either.

[busterbrown]

7. Was there not a law at one time which spoke to the issue of fair and balanced..

That if a station had a political point of view it had to allow time for an opposing view?

[mimi85]

8. I'd miss it also

I look forward to reading the LA Times with my coffee in the morning. The San Diego paper is a conservative rag. That leaves the SF Chronicle and the NY Times. The NY paper is just too expensive for me. I don't think this will go through though - I hope.

[freshwest]

5. K & R for not allowing the entire country to fall under the Reichwing Ministry of Propaganda.

We can't afford to give in now.

[sheshe2]

9. Kicked and Recommending!

Thanks Scuba!