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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I think it is a good idea... Our media...over the air ways and print... are not providing Americans with unbiased reporting of events and that is if they even report events that are important to us.

I am tried of half truth sensationalism designed to increase ratings rather then objectively reporting the news.I have to listen to the BBC for truth in reporting. Our media has been taken over and controlled by partisans who report news with a manipulative political bent.

I find Americans are mostly ignorant of world events, through no fault of their own, because of the political affiliations and the competition for viewership in our media outlets.

Now I agree that fact finding will do little... I just wish the FCC had real power to assure truth in reporting and kick the Fox's and MSNBC's off the air if they don't JUST report the DAMN news.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Go freak out over some research being done some where else.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

Yep your government making life easier and safer.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I think it is a good idea... Our media...over the air ways and print... are not providing Americans with unbiased reporting of events and that is if they even report events that are important to us.

I am tried of half truth sensationalism designed to increase ratings rather then objectively reporting the news.I have to listen to the BBC for truth in reporting. Our media has been taken over and controlled by partisans who report news with a manipulative political bent.

I find Americans are mostly ignorant of world events, through no fault of their own, because of the political affiliations and the competition for viewership in our media outlets.

Now I agree that fact finding will do little... I just wish the FCC had real power to assure truth in reporting and kick the Fox's and MSNBC's off the air if they don't JUST report the DAMN news.

Butch

I'm going to have to disagree with you completely, Butch, even if I would be perfectly happy to never see the name of a pop star du jour in my news feed ever again.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Contrary to frequent accusations recently, I'm just a gun owner, rather than a gun nut, but I proudly self-identify as a free speech freak.

The entire foundation of our American experiment with freedom is restricting the power of government, and you would hand over control of the means of mass communication because it would be easier than turning the TV off when the programming gets stupid?

Should the Johnson administration have been able to tell Walter Cronkite not to declare Vietnam lost? Or Nixon able to redirect the Washington Post away from a 2nd rate burglary? Should the violent images that turned the tide of public opinion in the civil rights era been subject to government review because they were horrible to watch?

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You are absolutely correct and while the FCC is clearly over-stepping...get used to it. Nobody here, no posters and no amount of righteous indignation is from now on, going to stop the HS, TSA, the CIA, the pentagon or the FBI from doing just exactly as they please.

So count the FCC as a mere tiny straw on our camel's back because constitution or not, is does not matter what laws are passed by govt,, only what rights we have left and only...what laws the govt. breaks all in the name of secrecy and the catch all...national security reasons to engage the 'war on terror.'

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I would normally agree with you but not in this case.

There is a difference in editorializing…and presenting unbiased news. To me the FCC should be able to control truth in news broadcasting without interfering with Constitutional rights… Reporting news is just reporting facts…. I have no argument with editorializing as long as it is plainly specified. Today however this is not happening… News organizations are editorializing or omitting news without the publics knowledge.

When the government started issuing licenses and controlling things like pornography and language the courts made it clear this was not against the Constitution.

I do not want control on programming other than news… The American citizen has the right to unbiased truth in reporting when it comes to the happening in the world… This right is something the various media should have to understand is a condition of use of the national airways.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I would normally agree with you but not in this case.

There is a difference in editorializing…and presenting unbiased news. To me the FCC should be able to control truth in news broadcasting without interfering with Constitutional rights… Reporting news is just reporting facts…. I have no argument with editorializing as long as it is plainly specified. Today however this is not happening… News organizations are editorializing or omitting news without the publics knowledge.

When the government started issuing licenses and controlling things like pornography and language the courts made it clear this was not against the Constitution.

I do not want control on programming other than news… The American citizen has the right to unbiased truth in reporting when it comes to the happening in the world… This right is something the various media should have to understand is a condition of use of the national airways.

Butch

Butch, I bolded a few of your words. That's exactly what I'm utterly opposed to. There can be no middle ground on this.

Who decides what "truth"is to be controlled? What opinion is too extreme? That is precisely the power no free people should ever surrender.

Have you ever read Animal Farm, Butch? It's free online, if you haven't, and a quick, easy read. Controlling the flow of information to the other animals was the job of a pig named Squealer, and he was the only "truth" the inhabitants had.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Who indeed... who is doing it now... There are some things that ONLY our government can do... remember WE have control over our government.

If we don't like the way they are demanding...just the facts ma'am in news broadcasting...we can change them.. Now we are at the mercy of partisan funded news organizations... Only giving THEIR view of the world.

I am not against all things government... their very existence is to do things on a national level that individual states cannot do. Making sure we are getting the facts of the happenings in this world is one of those things.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Now we are at the mercy of partisan funded news organizations... Only giving THEIR view of the world.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Cite the authority of the FCC regarding newspapers, Ken.

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"But what Wheeler didn't say in his letter is that it would drop the controversial part of its study that had its researchers question the decisions of journalists, producers and other news staff, leaving lawmakers less than fully satisfied."

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I would normally agree with you but not in this case.

There is a difference in editorializing…and presenting unbiased news. To me the FCC should be able to control truth in news broadcasting without interfering with Constitutional rights… Reporting news is just reporting facts…. I have no argument with editorializing as long as it is plainly specified. Today however this is not happening… News organizations are editorializing or omitting news without the publics knowledge.

When the government started issuing licenses and controlling things like pornography and language the courts made it clear this was not against the Constitution.

I do not want control on programming other than news… The American citizen has the right to unbiased truth in reporting when it comes to the happening in the world… This right is something the various media should have to understand is a condition of use of the national airways.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

Yep your government making life easier and safer.

Okay, this statement indicates that you are not a citizen of the US, and therefore the Federal Government has no authority over you in any way, shape or form.

OR

You did not vote and therefore had no participation in the election of the government, in which case you are being a hypocrite, since the government is of the people, for the people, even if candidate that some of the people chose did not get elected.

By the way, the regulations dealing with the limited sale of explosives to private individuals came about after 9/11 during the Bush Administration.

But the same can be said about the GOP controlled states requiring invasive procedures to be performed on women seeking abortions. Just to insure those laws are followed, they are going to have to expand government to monitor it. Kinda a contradiction of "smaller government."

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Go freak out over some research being done some where else.

I may be running along the ragged edge of getting silenced around these parts for a bit, Ken, but unless and until, and then again after, I will be a self-proclaimed freak on the subjects of my choosing, and your tears about it are like sugar in my coffee. As Butch is free to change the channel, you are free to leave the conversation

One reason I wound up so ardently rejected the Democrat party is because I actually believe in the the things they claim to value when it's convenient, when those same things become inconvenient to them.