FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: Corpmedia identifies its enemy number one for targeted takedown.

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Dan Rather admitted last year corpmedia NEEDED to protect Bush for a second term. McClellan's book confirms what we all knew - corporate media was in the tank for Bush anyway, and even moreso after 9-11. June 3, 2003 sealed how they would go all in to STOP a President Kerry.





June 2, 2003
Kerry Seeks to Reverse FCC's "Wrongheaded Vote"

Commission Decision May Violate Laws Protecting Small Businesses; Kerry to File Resolution of Disapproval

WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry today announced plans to file a "Resolution of Disapproval" as a means to overturn today's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise media ownership caps and loosen various media cross-ownership rules. Kerry will soon introduce the resolution seeking to reverse this action under the Congressional Review Act and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act on the grounds that the decision may violate the laws intended to protect America's small businesses and allow them an opportunity to compete. As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerry expressed concern that the FCC's decision will hurt localism, reduce diversity, and will allow media monopolies to flourish. This raises significant concerns about the potential negative impacts the decision will have on small businesses and their ability to compete in today's media marketplace. In a statement released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision, Kerry said: "Nothing is more important in a democracy than public access to debates and information, which lift up our discourse and give Americans an opportunity to make honest informed choices. Today's wrongheaded vote by the Republican members of the FCC to loosen media ownership rules shows a dangerous indifference to the consolidation of power in the hands of a few large entities rather than promoting diversity and independence at the local level. The FCC should do more than rubber stamp the business plans of narrow economic interests. "Today's vote is a complete dereliction of duty. The Commissioners are well aware that these rules greatly influence the competitive structure of the industry and protect the public's access to multiple sources of information and media. It is the Commission's responsibility to ensure that the rules serve our national goals of diversity, competition, and localism in media. With today's vote, they shirked that responsibility and have dismissed any serious discussion about the impact of media consolidation on our own democracy."

[Selatius]

1. I remember Howard Dean also said he wanted to break up media monopolies.

What luck that he went down the way that he did. I'm sure the Dean Scream was not overblown in the slightest bit and that it was not tantamount to character assassination. :sarcasm:

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2. Yep. Dean went from fawning magazine covers to 'this guy's whacked' after his midDecember 2003

remarks about media ownership. Hey, they figured they already had Kerry torn down by then, so it was time to target Dean.

I'm not naive, though. They were so in for Bush for 2004 that there was no way any Dem nominee would be allowed room to make their case to the people, even if that Dem nominee was Retired Five Star General Jesus H. Christ, the former Governor of Ohio. But, Kerry's long record against corruption and for open government made him an especially important target for corporate media to take aim at back then.

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3. ^^

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[Kaleko]

4. Alex Jones is right in calling it the information wars.

K & R

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5. Yep - it certainly wasn't a political campaign in 2000, 2002 or 2004. It was controlled demolition

of targeted Democrats to protect the Bushboy and the secrecy and privilege of the powerful elite who benefitted from the protection of closed government.

[Kaleko]

7. Nice to get a reply from someone who can stand a closer look at the big picture

:patriot:

We're sifting through the rubble of a nationwide controlled demolition while 30% still denies it ever took place. Talk about chronic cognitive dissonance...

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11. I'm often mystified when posters don't get the enormity of the situation and hide behind

the most shallow of media excuses. They blame Gore or Kerry as if it was all their fault that the media complicitly distorted who they were and edited their speeches or refused to report their defenses to the lies that had no problem finding broadcast airtime...over....and over...and again for months as it protected the lies they KNEW BushInc used repeatedly to deceive the American people.

[Raster]

6. There can be no doubt: the corporate-controlled mass media DOES NOT serve the public interest.

Neither does the corporate shill FCC.

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[Kitty Herder]

8. It's just propaganda, no matter how they dress it up. nt

[Raster]

9. It is. And it becomes even more chilling when one realizes the blueprint for Goebbels and his

Nazi Ministry of Propaganda was the American advertising industry. The vaunted Fourth Estate is no longer. When future generations dissect exactly how the United States veered toward fascism, they will find that the deregulation of the media and the loosening of the provisions of the Fairness Doctrine were prime factors into our descent into corporate fascism.

One need only look at the Fox News machine to see it is nothing more than the Ministry of Propaganda for the Rethuglican party.

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10. There HAS to be an accounting. I have noted that Obama has joined Kerry's moves against the FCC

favors for media owners. We need a Dem administration that will work WITH good Senators like Kerry instead of the last one we had that sided more with BushInc as it ignored the hard work of our best lawmakers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. I like that term

The Ministry of Propaganda...........

I believe it is time we started using correct terminology for the system we are under.
I believe it is time that the false covers were pulled from the The Bush Regime.

We need to start calling things by their correct names.
The power to name is the power to control reality.

there is no "war"...it was never declared by Congress, was it???
It IS a invasion.
The USA illegally invaded Iraq.
The USA is illegally putting troops into Peru, now...btw.

What would happen, do you suppose, if we used correct terminology for every comment/letter to an editor, blog, etc???

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13. I believe accurate labeling is exactly what this country needs to wake the hell up.

There's no time left for spin and niceties, imo.