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Congress May Overturn FCC's Media Consolidation Plan
Spril writes "A congressional committee voted yesterday to prevent the FCC from allowing even more consolidation of the media industry. The original ruling was covered on Slashdot. The committee attached the pro-consumer proposal to a bill funding the Justice and State departments for 2004. But the Bush administration has threatened to veto the funding because they support ever-larger corporations owning ever-bigger chunks of the spectrum that theoretically belongs to the public. Clear Channel may need to cough up some more money for their lobbyists."
If you haven't already read Atlas Shrugged,(and you sound like you have) you should. You'd enjoy it I think. Fountainhead is one of my favorite books.
I'm happy you don't feel safer, because you shouldn't. All the US did with this attacka against Iraq is make a new generation of terrorists. This time much more fanatic then the ones before. They don't even have saddam to take care of them anymore. They're disoriented, and don't know what to do in a new society with new rules. (I come from a former communist country and can tell you people there where mostly nuts, trying to abuse the system as much as they could. Some even went as far as riots). Look at all the suicide attacks and the like against the US troops. It's clear they're not wanted there, and it's also clear that people feel lost and hopeless. Best thing the US could do now.. is try to get a gov't up as fast as possible, and get people jobs/money, even if there is a deficit, or they need a loan from the US. In the future though.. I really hope the US doesn't need to see itself as the 'peacekeepers of the world'. And.. if you'll look at history, most major terrorists in the world today where once funded by the US, or had US involvement in some way or another. (Saddam, Gaddafi, Bin Laden..)
Really? I always thought if this was just about oil we'd have just lifted the sanctions. Seems that would have been a lot cheaper, and perfectly doable as France, Russia and China would have supported it. At the very least we would have occupied the Iraqi oil fields after GW-I.
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
You are entitled to your opinion, and there's obviously nothing I can do to change it, just as there are people who believe the world is flat, despite the satelite photos.
Why is it only ACs are responding?
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.