Just a reminder, Democrats biggest enemy

[FM Arouet666]

'Never Cry Wolf' posted this in response to one of my posts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4813197&mesg_id=4813197
and I thought it was important to remember, especially now, given my observation that conservatives seem to have come back into the fold with Bush.

From a recent speech by Bobby Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0916-27.htm

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There is a right wing media and if you look where most Americans are now getting their news, that’s where they’re getting it. According to Pew 30 percent of Americans now say that their primary news source is talk radio which is 90 percent dominated by the right.

22 percent say their primary news source is Fox News, MSNBC or CNBC, all dominated by the right and another 10 percent, Sinclair Network which is the most right wing of all. That’s the largest television network in our country. It’s run by a former pornographer who requires all 75 of his affiliate television stations -- and this is where Mid-Westerners get their news, red state people get their news -- all of them have to take a pledge to not report critically about this president or about the war in Iraq.

Then the rest of us are -- the majority of Americans are still getting their news from electronic media and it’s the corporate owned media and they have no ideology except for filling their pocket books and many of them are run by big polluters. All of them are run by giant corporations that have all kinds of deals with the government and are not going to offend public officials.

This all started in 1988 when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine said that the airwaves belong to the public. They were public trust assets just like our air and water and that the broadcasters could be licensed to use them but only with the proviso that they use them to promote the public interest and to advance American democracy. They had to inform the public of issues of public import. They had to have the news hours. None of those networks wanted to show the news because it’s expensive, they lose money on it. They had to avoid corporate consolidation. They had to have local control and diversity of control. That was the requirement of the law since 1928.

Today as a result of the abolishment of that doctrine, six giant multi-national corporations now control all 14,000 radio stations in our country, almost all 6,000 TV stations and 80 percent of our newspapers, all of our billboards and now most of the Internet information services, so you have six guys who are dictating what Americans have as information and what we see as news.

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If you look at the PIPA Report and I’ve known this for many, many years because I do 40 speeches a year in red states Republican audiences and there is no difference. When people hear this message and what this White House is doing and the Gingrich Congress, there is no difference between the way Republicans react and the Democrats react except the Republicans come up afterwards and say, “Why haven’t we ever heard of this before? I say to them, “It’s because you’re watching Fox News and listening to Rush.”

And 80 percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don’t know what’s going on .

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[ourbluenation]

1. Here's my humble contribution...

Lot's of bushbots who tend to stray off topic, but nonetheless...here ya go.


http://forums.go.com/abc/thread?threadID=556156&forumStart=0

[Jon8503]

2. Absolutely Correct; however, there is a chance the way things are

going and todays polls show that people are wising up to these people.

I think that the Democrats should and when they regain power consider breaking up the media monopoly. The media should always be a independent media, not owned by General Electric, etc.

[FM Arouet666]

4. I agree, however

The real point of this is that democrats cannot just sit back and think that because Bush is doing so poorly in the polls, or that he screwed up Iraq, Katrina etc that the GOP machine will just fall apart.

It wont. These people have long term goals, remember the "project for a new American century." That Neocon agenda report, they have a vision and have started to implement it with Bush, it depends on staying in power for generations.

I wonder why we have only a few democratic senators speaking out, we need a united voice, and sadly we need more unbiased media exposure.

[TwentyFive]

3. Biggest Problem in America!

RFK, JR has nailed it directly.

Seperate the business and reporting aspects of the media. The only real way to do this is to break these monopoly companies up. This is a non-partisan issue.

[leeroysphitz]

5. Love that last line

"And 80 percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don’t know what’s going on ."

I will defiantly be using that.

[FM Arouet666]

6. Amen, now if we could just wake them up. n/t