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NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse

Posted by Zonk on from the they-the-people dept.

PoliSciASU writes "MSNBC has established draconian rules regarding the use of the Presidential Primary Debates on the internet. Some examples: '5. No excerpts may be aired after 8:30 pm on Saturday, May 26th. Excerpts may not be archived. Any further use of excerpts is by express permission of MSNBC only. 6. All debate excerpts must be taped directly from MSNBC's cablecast or obtained directly from MSNBC and may not be obtained from other sources, such as satellite or other forms of transmission. No portions of the live event not aired by MSNBC may be used.' Kevin Bondelli talks about why this is 'shameful and wrong'. Voters are missing out on the ability to actually have an engaged conversation about the candidates and their debate performances because of NBC's greed." Alexander Wolfe at InformationWeek and Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine share similar sentiments, and discuss the matter in different ways.

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  1. What about Microsoft? by Brickwall · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    MSNBC is a partnership between Microsoft and NBC, yet all the comments are slagging NBC and no one says a word about M$. I find this astounding behaviour for /.

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  2. Re:Who is it going to be? by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only way you're going to have any kind of assurances that people aren't bringing anything dangerous on planes is if you strip them down, give everyone uniforms, keep them in quarantine for a week, not let them bring anything with them and chain them to the floor. Essentially it needs to be like a prisoner transport.

    You are of course neglecting the Surface to Air Missiles, security system compromises at the airpoirts, violent frontal assaults (i.e. suicide bomber leading a way of 20 AK-47/RPG armed terrorists to breach the walls of the "quarantine" facility to get inside - although of course a far better target would be any school, hospital or office building) and so on and on and on and on ....

    In short, in order satisfy this inane objective of "safety", not only the general public must be converted to prisoner status in any transportation scenario, but it must also be so everywhere else. Totalitarian police state where the whole populace is comprised either of no-rights inmates to be subjected to every method of subjegation imaginable and the "guards" who "guard" them for their own "safety".