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More Media Consolidation Coming Soon

Logic Bomb writes: "According to the Washington Post, a federal appeals court yesterday made a ruling that could make the last couple years of media consolidation look like nothing. Some major FCC rules about media ownership were ruled as "arbitrary" and therefore illegal, most importantly the one preventing a company from owning the cable system and television stations in the same place. Also, though the FCC gets one more chance to defend it, the rule about a company not owning stations reaching more than 35% of the national viewership may get tossed out too."

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  1. Ouch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like the apple.slashdot.org server doesn't work and play well with others!

  2. i ro9ol by VAXGeek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    postest firstest

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  3. FP! by agramata · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ooga-booga!

  4. Because I was lucky enought by rblancarte · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To be here when this was posted....

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  5. phil! by Resident+Geek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    phil!

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    1. Re:phil! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That you, phil?

      You've changed, man!

      (what movie)

  6. FP Attempt! by SpookComix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For me, and for my homies. --SC

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  7. Happy Negro Month by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This post is dedicated to all the Negroes.
    Here is wishing you a safe and sane Negro Month.

    Remember: February is Negro Month.

  8. fast prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah..it was a fats prost alright

  9. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    consult consult!

  10. Slashdot is fucked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe a bit off topic, but slashdot has fucked up a bit recently, I couldn't leave the front page! Maybe it was with that new apple section.

  11. bad news for stuntaz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    media conglomeration 0wnz da stuntaz, how then be they gettin their record deal-io?

  12. Ashcroft declares "War Against Cola" #@ +1; Timely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For Immediate Release
    -
    Office of the Press Secretary
    -
    February 15, 2002
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    09:01 A.M. EST

    PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES COMPASSIONATE NEW
    WEAPON IN WAR ON DRUGS: THE BLACK TEEN
    GULAG
    Remarks by the President

    THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I want to talk
    to the good people of this country about the
    scourge of luscious and irresistible drugs which
    are so popular across this great Christian land
    of ours. As you know, the federal government's
    War on Drugs, conceived by Nancy Reagan and
    Miss Cleo in the spring of 1981, has for almost
    21 years been a hugely successful means of
    spurring meteoric growth within the corrections
    industry - whose lobbyists keep both Laura and myself swimming in the finest 12
    year-old Scotch this Texas redneck has ever funneled.

    Today, wiping out Allah-loving towelheads is the one thing that all Americans can agree
    on. With this in mind, I will be tying every last issue in my domestic agenda to the fight
    against terrorism, no matter how absurdly unrelated they may be. Issues like drugs.
    (Applause.)

    And so this morning, I'm proud to be standing here in front of a potent new weapon in the War on Drugs and Terrorism: The Black Teen Gulag. Based on a compelling new design concept inspired by Civil War field hospitals and the 20th Anniversary DVD of TRON, these compassionate new facilities will contain and punish America's #1
    supporters of terrorism through drug use: impoverished, ghetto-dwelling black boys.
    Furthermore, I have asked the Congress for their swift and unquestioning approval of funds to erect hundreds of these exciting new penetentiaries in rural and overwhelmingly white communities from sea to shining sea, thereby creating thousands
    of prison guard jobs for America's most ignorant and sadistic high school dropouts.
    (Applause.)

    Yes, with Attorney General Ashcroft and Drug Czar John Walters at my side, we're putting the incarceration of teen Africanic males back at the center of our national agenda. And that's why my new budget also asks the Congress for an additional $8 billion to identify, track, arrest and imprison the next generation of this detestable voting block - which
    consistently and overwhelmingly supports my political opponents. Because for this, they
    must pay. (Applause.)

    But back to terrorism for a minute. You know, people ask me all the time, "George, as
    someone who was hand-picked by God to rule America, can you tell me how I can help
    fight against terror?" Well, the first thing you can do is contribute generously to my 2004
    reelection fund. Secondly, you shouldn't purchase illegal drugs. At least not heroin or
    opium anyway - because then you're supporting the same Muslim loonies who charge top dollar for the primo petrol that's buried under those desert armpits they call countries. As for marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy, which are produced almost entirely by domestic, allied South American, Dutch, and Israeli sources, you oughta stay away from them too. I should know. As a former heavy user of not only high-grade powder cocaine,
    but also pot, methamphetamine, BGH, nitrous oxide, and various modeling glues - I know only too well the damage that sweet, delicious drugs can almost do to a manufactured and undeserved political career. Of course, I was a little too old to catch
    the ecstasy love bug, but my daughters Jenna and Barbara have been kind enough to
    brief me on its deleterious effects.

    I've also asked our Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge, to examine ways we can improve our national border management system, to make sure we keep out Mexicans and Queen-worshipping Canadians, 45% of whom arrive with brick-sized parcels of
    hardcore drugs impacted deep inside their dirty foreigner rectums.

    In closing, it is important for Americans to understand this: that the best way to affect
    supply is to reduce demand for drugs; that we can work as hard as we can on interdiction, but so long as there are black teens using drugs in this country, Al Qaeda sleeper cells can and will be building nukeyular bombs in a crackhouse near you. And so a central focus of my strategy, developed in conjunction with the William S. Bennet Foundation for Hypocrisy in Policy Making, is to reduce demand by rounding up these so-called "Blafrican Americans," locking them up, throwing away the key, and lastly - and compassionately - NOT giving the bastards the lethal injections they deserve.
    (Applause.)

    Thank you - and God Bless.

  13. Xcrap is back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you page wideners because Xcrap 0.4 is here. The famous crap flood made using Linux!

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  14. Ode to Kathleen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kathy, my Kathy,
    my little turtle dove.
    I really really like you,
    better call it love.

    You fill me with passion,
    there is no denying that.
    Especially when the dildo,
    on your waist you strap!

    I am lying here aquiver,
    face down acrosss our tree,
    Awaiting the thrusting,
    Bum-Pummeling rear entry!

    I want to be married to a,
    woman passionate and flowery,
    But all I have is VA stock,
    For your wedding dowry.

    Do you think your Father,
    Will accept my humble prose?
    I also hope he wont mind
    My pink skintight lycra hose.

  15. Speech: National Assn Religous Broadcasters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ashcroft states that if you aren't religious, you are uncivilized.

    His hot air can be found here:

    Ashcroft Invokes Religion

    What's more dangerous than a moron? A pompous
    moron: aka John Ashcroft.

  16. Re:I was just saying the other day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're absolutely right. This is a good thing. It makes it a lot easier to figure out who to badmouth here on Slashdot.

  17. Re:AOL-TimeWarner-NBC by Rupert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll?

    Ignorant fuckwit moderators.

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  18. Re:Pretty soon, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The industry will regulate itself!

    (moderators, this is +1 funny or damned histerical)