Parents Television Council Owns 99.8% of FCC Complaints/Take it back!

[juliagoolia]

Come to find out the FCC gets 99.8% of their 240,000 complaints from ONE SINGLE group. This group is the Parents Television Council. They are a group Headed by a fellow by the the name of Brent Bozell. Founder and President of the Media Research Center, activist and voice of many RW conservative media outlets. He sometimes sits in for Rush Limbaugh as a guest host.
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/aboutus/bozellbio.htm

You can use the Parents Television Council WEB PAGE to FILE YOUR COMPLAINTS against SAVAGE and the LIKE.

It looks like they have set up an easy to use form for us all to use to bitch and complain to the FCC (Mr Powell)

They set it up for US TO USE to complain to the FCC. Why leave a good thing alone?

Why let the RW fanatics file 99.8% of the 240,000 complaints. Lets help them out.

http://www.cleanup.tv/onlinecomplaint.asp

File as many as you want against broadcasts the RW media has assaulted you with. They set a new standard so that certain words could not be played, and Private Ryan could not be played on a number of stations.

It apparently works. I used it to complain about the Lies on FOX on a particular issue. But I think there are other ways to utilize this great tool.

My complaint went on to the FCC without a hitch.

cross posted in GD

[Cobalt Violet]

1. Another great idea by juliagoolia.

Thanks, I'm sure Hannity and O'Reilly will inspire a complaint per minute.

[Walt Starr]

2. Complain about the Overstock ads!

Overtly sexual ads airing multiple times each day on television and radio!

[Cobalt Violet]

4. I haven't seen on yet.

But when I do I'll complain.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. I meant to add:

I like your idea too of going after the advertisers. (multiple offenses).

[ibegurpard]

3. Outstanding!

Thanks for the idea.
Wonder how long it will take for them to modify it if enough people start doing this?

[EC]

6. Done n/t

[troubleinwinter]

7. Our tax dollars subsidizing RW fundy nuts.

[juliagoolia]

8. off it went.... is a lie on a news broadcast something the FCC deals with?

To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Indecency Complaint
Date: 10 Dec 2004 10:11:04 -0800


Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St, S.W.
Complaints and Political Programming Branch
Enforcement Division, Mass Media Bureau
Washington, DC 20554

Network: FOX
Program Name: Several shows See description of lie
Broadcast Date: Dec 07, 2004
Broadcast Time: EST
My Affiliate:

Description of Indecency:

Telling Lies
FOX reports a lie and says that a California school "banned Declaration
of Independence because it mentions God"
Over the last two weeks, FOX News Channel has repeatedly -- and falsely
-- reported that an elementary school in Cupertino, California, banned
the Declaration of Independence because it mentioned God

Host Brit Hume, FOX News' Special Report with Brit Hume, November 24
Guest host and Big Story host John Gibson, FOX News' The O'Reilly
Factor, November 26
Co-hosts Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, FOX News' Hannity & Colmes,
November 29
Hannity, Hannity & Colmes, December 3
Host Chris Wallace, FOX Broadcasting Company's FOX News Sunday,
December 5
Host Bill O'Reilly and guest and former Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich, The O'Reilly Factor, December 6
Hannity, Hannity & Colmes, December 6
Hannity, Hannity & Colmes, December 7

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. FoxNews is not subject to FCC indecency rules

It is a cable channel. Only broadcast channels, such as ABC and CBS are subject. With cable it is pretty much anything goes. That's how HBO gets away with nudity and profanity.

[juliagoolia]

10. some issues we can own media ownership? etc.

"Janet Jackson lit the match," says Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. "The Parents Television Council and other groups coordinated to make noise about this. The FCC wants to look like it's responding to all this stuff."

Thompson says he isn't against investigations into indecency, but he finds the fines a bit disingenuous. They are being levied as FCC Chairman Michael Powell pushes for deregulation to let media companies grow larger.

"My thinking is the FCC should be paying more attention to ownership issues and less to content," Thompson says.


http://www.fcc.gov/eb/ enforcement bureau. What they do. What can we bitch about, and get them to do?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.




who is defining indecent. I find bigotry indecent. Can we as a massive voice change bigotry to indecency?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. Bozo needs to be taken out to the woodshed again

If anyone ever has the chance to see or talk to him, ask how much he had to pay Vince McMahon to settle out of court......