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FCC Approves Media Consolidation
evenprime writes "You can expect more media consolidation in the future. CBS is reporting that the FCC has approved the media deregulation that was previously discussed on Slashdot. Expect Clear Channel, Viacom and their kin to get bigger, and the radio to have even less diversity (a situation that some people think is responsible for falling CD sales)."
Now we get to see one point of view on all the media, this sucks.
Watch, soon Microsoft or AOLTW will just buy every news channel in the country and then begin to spam us with propaghanda..
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This obsession with "Diversity" in everything in American Life by some of the liberal elites is strange.
There are already a wide range of views and opinions on all media forms, but for some, they hate that a few have such disproportionate share of the audience.
I say, what the hell is so wrong with this?
You can't force people to watch or read something they don't want, but these diversity types would have you think that somehow your choices are being limited by some strange powerful force.
In this age of the Internet, anybody can be publisher, broadcaster, or viewer, so these rule changes reflect this new reality we live in.
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...how nobody complained about the fact that pre-cable TV had only three news channels to watch? (ABC/CBS/NBC) But now that companies like Clear Channel and News Corp. offer something other than mainstream left-leaning claptrap, it's now "OH NO! IT'LL BE THE END OF FREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT!" Considering how many intelligent people troll these boards, I'm surprised so many ditch said intelligence when it differs with their particular point of view. Consider that nobody says a damn thing when Ted Turner buys up another media service, but when the owner of Fox News wants to increase his holdings from 2.5% of the market to around 4% people go ballistic. Nope, no political agenda here, nosirree.
... That's what I thought.
Oh, and another thing: do you people really think the Dixie Chicks thing was started by the radio station owners? The owners didn't come up with the idea--their listening audience did...and in large enough pissed off numbers to incite a response from many radio stations. If that isn't serving the consumer, I don't know what is. When was the last time you ever heard NPR present a positive segment on tax cuts? Or welfare reform? Or limited government?
Go ahead and baa some more, sheeple.
This is all no accident, the govt and top media groups are working together to consolodate all media for their own purpose. That purpose is propoganda, our govt has been taken over by neonazis that need to have 100% control over all media so they can lie to us even easier. Every type of media is under their umbrella. Internet information, TV, print, music, and even videogames to further disillusion the populous. This is the kind of power our forefathers warned us about, this is the kind of power that even the Bible warned about. This kind of consolodation is the end of free speech in America, and perhaps the world. One of the first things the nazis did was take control over the media, russia and china already have similar programs in action. The govt will never stop just here, eventually they will have 100% control over the entire planet. INFORMATION=POWER For anyone that has not read Orwell's 1984, I suggest you read that now. What is going to happen over the next 20 years is exactly what is going to happen in the book. George Orwell knew this in 1947! He was killed for writing this book! Read it now and empower yourself. Otherwise live a life of lies and slavery.
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I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
To all of you "Doom and Gloom" liberal nuts you should have studied more economics. If I remember correctly an "Evil Corporation" produces an evil product, you as the "Holy" consumer gobble up the product and that in turn provides "Evil" revenue to keep them in business. If you are "TRULY" that concerned about one "Evil" company "controlling" the media then stop listening to the radio and watching TV. If you are in the "Majority" that will cause their revenue to drop and open the door for smaller companies to buy into the "Big Evil Company".. Also, if you rely entirely on media to form an opinion then you are hopeless cause. Working in the IT field I constantly hear the same "Evil Company" label used conjunction with Microsoft. If the "majority" of people are really that upset with the products delivered they would quit purchasing them. Get a life..