[opendtv] Re: Chairman Copps to Silicon Valley
- From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:09:39 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Chairman Copps is talking as if the consolidation of the traditional
news media is being caused by some unreasonable level of greed on their
part.
As if, here are the big bad news media trying to take away a divine
mandate they have,
to give the poor huddling masses the news.
If not from the broadcasters, then from whom do we get the news?
Try describing the many images of the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon
in a 5 minute radio newscast, if you can find one.
Last I knew, there is still an FCC rule that forbids the transmission of
'false or deceptive' information over the airwaves.
'Slanting or distilling' the news as fits any broadcast news
organization's editorial policy could be interpreted as coming under
this rule and be subject to the appropriate penalties and fines.
Old Soviet saying: “There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and there is no
Izvestiya in Pravda”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3993
Cliff
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