Clear Demorat FCC Commissioner Michael Joseph Copps (04-13-1940), another ancient and withered GOWP (Guilty Overeducated White Person) indicated radio licenses could be continued only but if they “demonstrate measurable progress. If the station fails again, give the license to someone who will use it to serve the public interest.”
Copps outlined a plan for a “Public Value Test” every four years that would make the license renewal of broadcasters contingent upon meeting federal criteria such as the delivery of news, diversity, the conducting of community input meetings and local programming requirements.
If radio and television is on Mr Copps’ radar, then so must be blogs, necessarily so.
They are a means of communication, are they not?
Mr Copps, of course, envisions not only “race quotas” but in his purple-planet skies, “gender quotas” and “income quotas.”
As some have said: “Fox — meet hen-house.”
So to speak.
Mr Copps also said:
Arguments rage over the right to secretly manage and prioritize content and to favor the affluent saw it as an affront to free speech. Barton also asked whether “five commissioners can do a better job of ensuring that Americans have access to a wide diversity of content and viewpoints than Americans can themselves by expressing their preferences … in the vigorously competitive marketplace.”
Bloggers and Conservatives beware: your First Amendment existence may be on the table — once again.
And — imagine this — at the behest of Demorat/Progressive/Leftist elements.
BZ
No surprise… not at all… The ONLY way they can shut down conservatives!
NFO: I suspect this is on the so-called “back burner.”
But when I suspect that my First Amendments are even “remotely” threatened,
Then I proffer them on Front Street.
BZ
Lets bring this up again in to years when we have a Republican President.
Then we can sit back and watch the entire left side of America implode in a green cloud of hypocrisy as they bring that censorship boogieman out.
I’ll bring the beer!
to= two
stoopid spell check.
Can you imagine the outrage if GWB or any republican president presided over something like this? My GAWD the explosions of heads on the liberpuke side would be epic…
But now, molestation at air ports, talk of silencing opposition, killing of Americans without due process… Crickets chirpping…Hypocrite thy name is liberal/progressives….
If radio and television is on Mr Copps’ radar, then so must be blogs, necessarily so.
I sounded that warning to fellow bloggers a few years ago. They laughed at me.
KurtP: love him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh brought out the successful side of Conservatism. . .
Robert: there would be Leftist heads exploding all over the nation, marches, strikes, boycotts, lawsuits, you name it.
AOW: as have I for a number of years, just like yourself. You KNOW that we are on SOMEone’s radar screen somewhere. . .
BZ
SOMETHING needs to be done to stop the irritating noise blocking true PROGRESS since none of us noise makers are open to being educated.