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Yachtie -> RE: Freaking Orwellian (2/22/2014 5:26:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
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ORIGINAL: Yachtie
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
The FCC is tasked, by law, with monitoring those stations that broadcast over those airwaves to ensure they serve the public interest.
That's one oddly stated brush and I question what you mean by "serve the public interest" ... "over those airwaves." The FCC does monitor for certain speech restrictions as applicable by law. Like George Carlin once mentioned, the seven words one cannot say. One could possibly interprete your statement as to public interest as inclusive as to general content. I can assure you that my use of SSB airwaves has zero public interest, but that those allocated airwaves are available is what I see as serving the public interest.
So, DK, I'm not sure just what you mean. I seriously doubt many here think FoxNews serves any public interest, if you catch my drift.
Your use of SSB is as a hobbyist which is the public interest it serves. FNC is not broadcast and so does not come under the FCC in the same way.
And that language is straight from the law and the licensing of the stations BTW.
FNC was but a purposeful example. I'm pretty sure you understand that. Perhaps I should have said CBS, NBC, or PBS that you should then not misunderstand. The problem is here, from the OP link -
But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.
Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.
There it is again, government looking to intrude into the marketplace.
My mentioning of SSB use was not to my hobby, but that such airwaves are allocated. That IS an FCC mandate, whether it be to my hobby use or that of CBS, NBC, or PBS. On what ground might anyone claim the FCC has any mandate to involve itself in content? That is the question which people are looking at. Now, this part of the OP is interesting -
The FCC says the study is merely an objective fact-finding mission. The results will inform a report that the FCC must submit to Congress every three years on eliminating barriers to entry for entrepreneurs and small businesses in the communications industry.
Sure. No problem with that as stated. Barriers are one thing, but I question how looking at how anyone decides on what to report has any bearing as to any barriers. How would CBS not reporting some story create any barrier to some entrepreneur?
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