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FCC Commissioner Wantsto Test the 'Public Value'of Every Broadcast Station
Cybercast News Service ^ | 12/3/10 | Susan Jones

Posted on 12/03/2010 9:07:30 AM PST by Nachum

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To: Laserman

It is a simple fact that there is more news available now than in the supposed glory days of Walter Cronkite, who - I like to point out - didn’t even have a college degree. Whatthis guy is saying is that there’s too much news and opinion coming out that he wishes wasn’t coming out.


41 posted on 12/03/2010 9:54:59 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Nachum

“Close the FCC”

Absolutely agree...they are just another tool of this Socialist/Communist regime....like the EPA, Dept of Education, and etc...


42 posted on 12/03/2010 9:58:16 AM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (BOYCOTT NEVADA...!!!!)
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To: Nachum
"If a station passes the Public Value Test, it of course keeps the license it has earned to use the people’s airwaves,"

The whole premise of the FCC is absurd. The people determine public value through the mechanism of economics. It's a much better measure than any arbitrary judgements made by bureaucrats.

43 posted on 12/03/2010 9:58:26 AM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Nachum

NOAA weather radio has more public value than any NPR station—and higher ratings.


44 posted on 12/03/2010 10:07:46 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nutmeg

Wow- they’re serious, aren’t they?

Well guess what- so are we.

There are still some Aremericans here Mr. FCC and you WILL hear our voices if you try this crap.


45 posted on 12/03/2010 10:14:07 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Nachum
Talk radio has been driving them insane for 20 years.

With the help of the mainstream networks and newspapers, the Dems have tried to ridicule it's content and marginalize it's influence. When none of that worked, they tried financing their own network...only problem was no one wanted to listen.

I've been a talk radio fan most of my life, and witnessing it's maturity has been fascinating. It's influence on the political discussion has only increased as the traditional media outlets continue to flounder.

The demise of the so-called fairness doctrine unleashed the voice of the political opposition which had become defined by Woodward/Bernstein activist style journalism school graduates. Their monopoly allowed them to define conservatism. They made us out to be cartoon characters and Reagan as our lovable actor (dunce) leader.

I'll bet if you went back to the early years of Rush and searched transcripts of his show, you would find the most repeated phrase was something like, "Finally, someone in the media is saying what I think!"

The free market has determined that without government subsidies and tax-shelter endowments, liberal radio can barely survive.

Meanwhile, the list of successful conservative talk shows that not only have an audience, but, in spite of unrelenting sponsorship boycotts, create profits, continues to grow.

The Dems lay awake at night plotting ways to "Hush Rush". Obama would regain his deity status among the "professional left" if he could assert control over media content.

Every time the Dems lose elections...it's a "message" problem, not a policy problem.

46 posted on 12/03/2010 10:15:38 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Nachum

based on whose value system??

If it is the lefts we will have kiddie porn being called educational television.

This is nothing more than a radical calling for political repression.


47 posted on 12/03/2010 10:18:12 AM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: nutmeg

I think we can all agree that We The People will not live in a police state.


48 posted on 12/03/2010 10:25:38 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Steve_Seattle

The FCC already has a “local community” programming requirement.

When he decries the state of JOURNALISM, there is no journalist requirement from our media (does the classic rock or country station HAVE to cover news?).

He is attacking those who would attack Obamabi, the boy king.


49 posted on 12/03/2010 10:31:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Agree with your post, one thing to add to it is the general public’s REJECTION of the increasing agitprop “journalism” from the daily newspapers, news magazines, and television news.

The public is tuning out. No longer subscribing.

Even leftists would rather turn to Comedy Central for their daily news intake (no big-pharma “news items on a breaking discovery in...”, no “if it bleeds it leads” police blotter and car accident reports...).

The press WAS biased. But time was they could at least be shamed into admitting to “falling for a hoax” (or helping to fabricate it altogether) unlike the AP/CBS handling of Memogate (the forged Bush national guards memos, every forgot about AP’s own hand in the matter, Dan Rather wanted to beat AP to breaking the news item).


50 posted on 12/03/2010 10:36:49 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Nachum

Isnt that kind of out of rheir realm..its for sure they are not going after porno sites


51 posted on 12/03/2010 10:40:07 AM PST by dalebert
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To: The Comedian

Barack Obama, then in his Office of the President Elect, said it would no longer be The White House, but THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE.

Kinda like the People’s Republic of China.

Communists like to claim “the People’s” mantle.


52 posted on 12/03/2010 10:40:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: FrankR

I was in radio at one time also. Lots of work, little pay, too much FCC.


53 posted on 12/03/2010 10:42:18 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum; nutmeg

Who hires these idiots?


54 posted on 12/03/2010 11:04:18 AM PST by Monkey Face (TSA: A government union for molesters.)
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To: 2dollarbill

That what I thinking I have feeling what Animal House Dean he probably running the FCC RIGHT NOW LOL!

All we is Nedimeyer character snoop around LOL!

We all know he was brown nosed LOL!


55 posted on 12/03/2010 11:20:25 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Nachum

I already passed the Pubic Value Test. Apparently my pubes are valuable as they protect my Junk.


56 posted on 12/03/2010 12:22:43 PM PST by Focault's Pendulum (Please...someone...ask the ashole to leave the office.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi; Tigerized
If I'm John Boehner, one of the first 10 things I do (personally) in late January is to send a pink slip to Michael Copps, as the FCC is directly responsible to Congress.

Well then, let's roll.

57 posted on 12/03/2010 1:22:40 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Nachum

Once again, net neutrality couldn’t get through congress so we go around them and have an agency of faceless bureaucrats pass it instead. Congress has once again proven it has no public value so let’s pull their funding. </s>


58 posted on 12/03/2010 1:57:09 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: Nachum

These last elections mean nothing to these statists. It just pushes them to the realization that the masses in their view are stupid and must be controlled. Obama has the veto and they still hold the senate. By 2012 hey will have everything n place to ignore all elections and “fix” them where they deem necessary. I fear we are headed to a civil war and the train long ago has left the station.


59 posted on 12/03/2010 2:55:35 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: GoCards

Whatever they say it means. Ask people like hitler, mussolini,stalin, mao, fidel. They all had/have value tests. It’s the phraseology of tyrants..


60 posted on 12/03/2010 3:02:22 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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