Urgent Action: Stop Further Media Consolidation!

Written by: Pam Hoye on Nov 24, 2007 4:36 PM EST

From: Alicia Sacks

Subject: Urgent-FCC to further media consolidation

This is very urgent. Dec. 11 is the deadline to contact FCC. Let's inundate them with contacts to stop this madness; it worked last time with Powell. There's a new, even more arrogant Chairman, but if enough of us contact him...

Please pass this on.

Peace, Alicia

There Is Movement In Congress To Restrain The Runaway F.C.C. If We Will Support It Yes, we know there is a holiday coming up fast. But despite mounting and unanimous public opposition, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin is trying to rush through essentially the same further media consolidation into the hands of fewer and fewer giant corporations, which was overturned by public pressure in 2003.

Stop The FCC Action Page:

http://www.usalone.com/stop_media_consolidation.php

Facebook Action Page:

http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum738

A bipartisan bill has already been introduced in Congress, The Media Ownership Act of 2007 (S.2332), to stop this rash and harmful action. At a public hearing (with the bare minimum advance legal notice) in Seattle on Nov. 9, presumptively to hear citizen input, Martin turned a deaf ear to a thousand protesting voices, and announced the next business day he was going to plow ahead with his destructive plan. FCC Commissioners Adelstein and Copps were appalled at Martin's obliviousness to the public interest, aiming to push through his gutting of current rules by December 11, just a couple weeks off. S.2332 would start by requiring a full and fair 90 days for the public to comment on any such proposed rule changes. It would also require protections for localism and diversity of ownership, including female and minorities.

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The one click action page above will send your personal message to all your members of Congress, and each every one of the FCC Commissioners, with the subject "Stop further media consolidation by passing S.2332". At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like.

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OpEdNews Helping To Mobilize Against The FCC Because of the extreme urgency of this action, OpEdNews has put out a call to all its writers to submit action stories, which link to additional action pages on this issue. In this one we learn more about current FCC chairman Kevin Martin, that is he is nothing more than a plant from the Bush-Cheney transition team, a general council for Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign.

http://www.usalone.com/media_consolidation.htm

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