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Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints
andywebz writes "Mediaweek is reporting that complaints to the FCC are rising. Powell spoke before congress, detailing that the complaints are up from 14,000 in 2002, to nearly 240,000 in 2003. There were only 350 complaints during 2000 and 2001. Powell failed to mention however that 99.8% of those complaints came from PTC (Parents Television Council). The article does mention he may have been unaware of this fact. Jonathan Rintels (president of the Center for Creative Voices in Media) commented, 'It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio.'"
Setting up bureaucracies to "grant licenses" to some applicants while denying licenses to other applicants is directly violating the first amendment to the constitution. They could have amended the constitution but they chose to simply give over the most powerful means of indoctrinating populations ever conceived by any ruler in history, to groups with political acumen and connections while effectively silencing the vast majority of the US.
Seastead this.
Yeah.. wasn't it the christians who stole the land away from those savage indians?
If Jesus beleived in loving every one and to value life, how come more people die in his name than any other?
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
..stolen Humvee..
As long as you haven't stolen it from me:-)
And the fact that we the people own the airwaves and have an absolute right to complain bitterly when garbage is aired? The networks do not own the airwaves and do not have the right to broadcast any garbage they want.
Seeing as premarital sex is condemned by the Bible, and God, not you, is the only one to get to say what is acceptable for man to do, it is abundantly clear their programming is proper. The same holds for homosexuality. If you want to be an idiot, then be one. But you absolutely have zero right to force your bullshit into our houses.
LOL OK, you are to the point now of being funny.
I will happily admit I can't spell all that well, but quite frankly this wasn't worth running through a spell checker before I posted, so you can spend paragraph after paragraph making fun of my spelling, it doesn't bother me. I can get plenty close enough for a spell checker to catch the word and fix it in the business world.
Now for your personal attacks against me.
I am a single father, I raise my 2 boys alone, with NO help from my ex wife. However they go to private school, and get a FAR better education from their friends in the neighborhood who go to public school. The govenment, the last time I checked spend about $5,700 per year per student for public school. I spend $5,000 of my own money to send my kids to private school, and they are FAR more educated than I am at that age, (I went to public school) and miles and miles ahead of their friends who now go to public school. (I have seen their friends homework as my kids help them from time to time, a LOT of "estimate this and estimate that" aka NO WRONG ANSWER. They do get grades, but if you remember from the clinton administration there was a lot of talk about doing away with grades becuase they made kids feel bad. I also know there are some schools in the lefty parts of the world where there are no grades for kids.
Now as I have stopped personal attack #1 and let you know that your generalizations do not work, On to the next.
I said quite clearly here kindergardner is a condom and here is how you use it so now go have sex. You turned that into 16 year olds. OK, Beyond the fact that a 16 year old is STILL A CHILD, legally, and mentally, and still the responsibility of their parents, don't you think it is the parents responsibility to deal with if it is right and if it is wrong? If these kids go out and use a condom expecting it to work and it breaks and they get a girl pregnant, do you think the school system is going to raise that child? Do you think the two children having the kid are going to raise it? Nope, its going to be one or the other of the grandparents. Does the school system have the right to put that burdon on those people not even in school? Well, according to you they do.
Liberals don't think about the costs of their actions, because they don't want to. Mark my words, it won't be long before NAMBLA starts having rights to have sex with little boys. I'll guarantee it is in the lefts plans somewhere. They nickle and dime all of our rights away. Now, before I say this next bit, I am a non smoker. actually an ex smoker which are the worst kind of non smokers.
A bunch of years ago the left was all like.. we need to ban smoking in the workplace. We don't want to take away anyones right to smoke, but we think people should not have to smell it at work. (fair enough, I sure don't want to) then it became We want non smoking sections in resturaunts. Once again we have NO plans to take away your right to smoke, we only want to be able to eat in peace.(Once again, fair enough. I enjoy eating without smelling smoke) Now, it has became in MANY places, not only LA and NY, but lexington KY where you can't smoke inside anywhere, and in someplace, I can't recall right now and I don't want to bother to look it up because you will ignore this part anyway, you cant' even smoke outside anymore. Also, did you know that truck drivers in california can't smoke in their trucks? even if they are the only ones in it. They must stop their trucks and get out to smoke.
99% of this will be ignored and the rest you will move around to fit your needs, but this just goes to show you that not everyone is as stupid as you think. Some of us know what you are trying to do. You, (liberals) are trying to control every aspect of everyones lives.
Just three more hours seapeople and you can finally take me away from this crappy God Damned planet full of hippies
...by any measure that justifies the use of the word. The problem with you right wingers, is that you are A) sissies, B) sissies who can dish it out but can't take it, the worst kind of sissies, and C) total hypocrites with no standards or consitency. Common, Clinton couldn't so much as fart in an elevator without the media turning it into a scandal. Just look at how much Genrich hyperventilated for "being force to exit form the rear of the plane." How many investigations were there into Vince Foster and Whitewater. How many of those turned up dirt on the Clintons. Out of all the journalists who went after that story and were wrong (100% of them), how many appologized?
Now, lets move on to your boy. Where's the media facination in Bush's stock deals that brought a government investigation? Where was the scandal surrounding Bush after he sat in a classroom reading a book when he knew our nation was under an attack? Where were all the decency & morals obsessed Republicans when the Vice President was telling a Democratic senator to fuck off on the senate floor?
You know the whole Dan Rather story or were you under a rock during that week?
Yep, Rather got a black eye for that one, nevermind that it was just one piece of evidence in an otherwize solid program. But remember what I said about you guys being total hypocrites? Bush. Nigerian. Yello. Cake. It was even in a memo. Go find me a single mainstream media source that demanded Bush to resign after that debacle. For that matter, where's the media pundits decrying Iraq war, calling it the greatest deciteful clusterfuck by any president since the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
And yes this bias does in fact exist.
Yes, it does. Its just 180 degrees opposite of the way you think it is.