Are you concerned about how the corporate media is manipulating our election process? Have you noticed how they give preferential treatment to certain candidates during the debates? Have you noticed how they exclude the truly progressive anti-war candidates from presidential debates? Are you troubled by the media's efforts to suppress the free exchange of political ideas and progressive policies?

The only recourse left to concerned citizens now is to take legal action in the form of a class action lawsuit to force the corporate media to allow all presidential candidates to participate in broadcasted presidential debates. Doing so is vital to ensure a level playing field, and to ensure that our election process is unbiased and unmanipulated. It is essential that the American people have ALL the facts at their disposal, and be made aware of ALL their choices when making one of the single most important decisions they face: who they should elect to run our nation's government.

http://citizenclassaction.com/index.php?op...ge&Itemid=1

Excellent action.
Here's hoping it gets something more than the usual apathy....

It would be amazing to see FUX News become "fair and balanced"....




...OH !! A flying pig.............

Here's my favorite part:


Ooooo... it's a secret!


Actually, that's not true. You don't "join" a class action.


But of course!

So how do you think something like this should be approached, legally speaking, Jubal?
I'm asking you to be constructive in your criticism.
Ta! (<--means thanks for those who don't know)

I don't think it should be approached legally at all. It's a market question. And to some extent a regulatory question.

I think we need tighter limits on media ownership.

Are broadcast media not licensed by government? The airwaves not under public ownership?
Surely there is some legal avenue available to concerned citizens who feel their airwaves are being usurped by private corporate interests and that this is detramental to the process of democracy?

I agree by the way, tighter limits on media ownership would be a good thing.

Yeah, they can complain to the Federal Communications Commission, whose chairman's wife works at the White House and is Laura Bush's second cousin. So they'll get right on the problem in a fair, even-handed, and public-spirited manner, won't they?

Indeed!
How about a class action against the FCC?

..and there, in a nut-shell (literally, sometimes..) is the problem.
There was a big attempt to revise the media here in France recently, still on-going, and it's causing a lot of smaller, independent radios and journals to close down, simply because they're paying roughly the same as the mass-media, which is corporate owned and subsidized by it's own fiscal weight.
The voice of informed opinion is drowned out in the shouting blare of mindless ranting and glitzy raz-ma-taz from the commercial chains which sell your Soul to Mamon.
Tragically, so few people seem to realise that the reason why the Moguls like Molloch own the mass-media, wrapping every day their oily, ink-stained claws tighter around the throat of independent thought, is NOT to provide an advertising medium, nor even to sell their viewpoint, it's simply to crush any form of dissent that may interfere with their plans and actions. The vast majority of people on our little blue planet STILL get there info from mass-media. Gulp.

Now the government of our Omnipresident Sarkoleon is banning publicity on the French national chains, which would seem to be a blessing, but means a 22 million Euro loss in advertising revenue, while the corporate media line up, Bougues, Dassault, Molloch, all the other trash, frotting their hands and waiting for the peoples media paid for out of OUR taxes to stumble and fall. Mmmm mmm. No way, José !

As much as I don't like regulation and Government intervention, and believe that certain media should survive or fall on their merits without any external crutch, the price for a monopoly on our information suppliers is too high to pay.

To the FCC, I say "Tits ! Arse ! Cock ! Nipple !"
The thump as they swoon to the floor will bring some mild satisfaction....

Yep. And guess which political party Michael Copps, the FCC's real hawk on bums-on-the-airwaves, belongs to?

Mmm, yeees, he's a Democrat, but he doesn't seem too much like a bad guy, more a damage-control guy.

It's a blurry line, and there is a lot of swelling under the surface from circling sharks, and from what I've read and seen, he looks like he's keeping his settling dinghy afloat with hurridly-chewed prophylactics bunged into the holes....(was that a naughty word, mummy ?)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Copps