tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33737378769977805302024-03-12T17:18:56.197-07:00Sue Wilson ReportsNews and commentary about the corporate media, its governmental regulators, and your rights as media consumers.Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-73483490824134048202024-02-04T12:51:00.000-08:002024-02-08T14:34:54.361-08:00FCC Regulators Play the Shell Game with Broadcasters: What Really Happened in the Sinclair/Tribune FCC Investigation<p style="text-align: right;"> January 25, 2024</p><p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/fcc-sinclair-tribune-broadcasters/" target="_blank">Originally published at Project Censored</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">(Note: Because this includes information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, this piece required a lot of explanation. It is long, so I'm just providing headlines here. Click "Read More" for the entire article.)</p><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE AIR BELONGS TO US – But they’re trying to take it away</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">BROADCASTERS TO FCC: We don’t need no stinkin’ rules!</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">PARTY ON – Behind the scenes with broadcasters and their regulators</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS — Especially Sinclair</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">MASQUERADE BALL – They’re not who they say they are</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN – How far will he pull it back? Not too far</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE BIG REVEAL – What the FCC and Sinclair didn’t want us to know</b></h5><h5><b style="font-family: verdana;">IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER – It’s time for a reckoning</b></h5><h5><b>____________________________________________________________________ <br /></b></h5><b><a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/fcc-sinclair-tribune-broadcasters/" target="_blank">READ HERE:</a></b><br /><p style="text-align: left;"></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-37715349249962109502024-01-23T17:01:00.000-08:002024-01-24T12:34:30.697-08:00Freedom of Information Act - FCC's Consent Decree Negotiation with Sinclair re: the Tribune Merger<p style="text-align: right;">January 23, 2024<br /></p><p>After more than two years of Freedom of Information Act litigation, the FCC released the documents underlying its Consent Decree negotiation with Sinclair after its failed merger with Tribune Broadcasting.</p><p>Many thanks to my attorney Arthur Belendiuk for his dedication in bringing this to a successful conclusion. I have had the docs for a while, but only recently found a publisher for the accompanying story. </p><p>Full story at <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/" target="_blank">Project Censored</a> January 25.</p><p>FOIA Releases:<br /></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Wj99cRc0cfmrvc6sXb8DI_hNbUaFslZ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Sinclair Response to June 25 2019 LOI Final</a></span></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMnMckbooqjRYKI1sN62AUEFraCIne-P?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Final Document Production Documents</span></span></a> <br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-73269630547153283062023-10-03T10:28:00.004-07:002023-10-03T10:28:55.623-07:00 Upcoming FCC Decision will Determine your Internet Speed - reprint from 2014 still holds today
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<p style="text-align: right;">originally published in the <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article2674439.html" target="_blank">Sacramento Bee, October 11, 2014</a> <br /></p><p>You’re
enjoying your weekend java, wanting to learn what happened at last
week’s school board meeting. Your local newspaper doesn’t cover that
beat, but a local blogger does a good job, so you try to pull his site
up on your laptop. Meanwhile, your 5-year-old opens up “Sesame Street”
on her iPad, and on his, your teenage son is bringing up “Spider-Man” on
Netflix. You instantly hear the sounds of “Spider-Man,” but your
daughter is getting impatient, as her show hasn’t yet appeared. In
another minute, the “Sesame Street” theme song finally plays, but your
school board blog still isn’t up. You get another cup of coffee and
wait. And wait. And wait. Finally, the site fills your screen. </p><p>This
is what the Internet will look like if the Federal Communications
Commission does not pass strict “Net neutrality” rules. While opponents
have painted Net neutrality as government takeover of the Internet, it
is actually meant to prevent a corporate takeover of free speech on the
Web. Net neutrality means keeping the Internet as it has been since its
inception, with users paying their Internet service provider a fee to
access the Internet, and then freely choosing what to watch, hear, read
or post – with no outside interference. Proponents include Google,
Microsoft, AOL, Mozilla, eBay and thousands of small businesses. There
is very little opposition to Net neutrality – except from the giant
Internet service providers themselves. </p><p> Verizon, ATT, Comcast and
Time Warner Cable are among the chief opponents of the current model.
They are now the largest Internet service providers and have devised a
more profitable model (for themselves) called “paid prioritization.”
They want to charge higher fees to content providers (writers,
moviemakers, application developers) who have the means to pay. Those
providers who cannot pay more will suffer slower speeds. </p><p>The FCC
passed a set of Net neutrality rules, called the 2010 Open Internet
Order, trying to bar Internet service providers from blocking content or
slowing purchases from retailers, but likely allowing paid
prioritization. Verizon promptly sued the FCC, with the circular free
speech argument that, as an Internet service provider, it has the
editorial right to choose which services it wants to provide, and that
right should be protected under the First Amendment. </p><p>Verizon won,
but not on the First Amendment argument. The D.C Circuit Court of
Appeals found the FCC could impose such rules but had adopted the wrong
legal framework to do so. Prior to the Open Internet Order, the FCC
classified broadband as an “information service” under Title I of the
1996 Telecommunications Act. But the court found the FCC was imposing
regulations on the Internet service providers allowed only under Title
II. Were broadband classified as a “telecommunications service,” the FCC
could regulate Internet service providers as a common carrier. The
court essentially gave the FCC a do-over. </p><p>Regulating broadband as
a public utility is the only path that will keep the Internet service
providers at bay, but the ISPs warn of years of litigation should the
FCC take that route. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, former president of the
National Cable TV Association, says Title II is still on the table, but
not even FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, upon whom public interest
advocates pin their hopes, was willing to commit to that path at Rep.
Doris Matsui’s recent Net neutrality forum in Sacramento. </p><p>Of the
3.7 million comments from the public, 99 percent favor Net neutrality.
That should count for something. Add a 3-2 Democratic voting advantage
at the FCC, and you’d think this is a slam dunk. </p><p>Except that FCC
watchers like myself have seen this show before. In 2003, the FCC
ignored 3 million comments opposing cross-ownership of broadcast
stations and newspapers in the same town. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered the agency to go back and listen to the public. So in
2007, the FCC again pretended to listen, then ignored the public again.
It’s what they do. </p><p>Politically, Sen. Barbara Boxer favors Title
II, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein has yet to commit. Matsui is leading the
way with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., by introducing the Online
Competition and Consumer Choice Act to bar paid prioritization. But
getting such legislation into law is no small task. </p><p>With a 3-2
Democratic advantage at the FCC (Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel also
favors Net neutrality), the commissioners could easily pass tough rules.
But the agency historically is a victim of “regulatory capture.”
Instead of serving the public, the FCC serves the very corporations it
is supposed to be regulating. And with a former cable TV lobbyist
chairing the FCC, the future could look brighter. </p><p>The California
Public Utilities Commission could also have an impact, should it endorse
common carrier status for Net neutrality. </p><p>Calls to all of these players could make a difference in the future of the Internet forever. </p><p>Don’t let them give our open Internet away. </p><p>Sue
Wilson is the Emmy-winning director of the documentary “Broadcast
Blues,” editor of SueWilsonReports.com and founder of the Media Action
Center. This story was originally published October 11, 2014, 5:00 PM.<br /><br />Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article2674439.html#storylink=cpy</p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-44073607503674570272023-06-13T14:57:00.001-07:002023-06-13T14:57:18.530-07:00Comments of Sue Wilson and Media Action Center - 2022 Quadrennial Review of Media Ownership Rules<p><!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the past few years, Sue Wilson through the Media
Action Center has received anecdotal complaints from TV viewers in small to
mid-sized Television markets nationwide. Viewers say when they turn the channel
from a local news program on one station to a local news program on a different
station, they see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly the same news</i>
duplicated on both channels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This appears to happen when one company has licenses for
more than one TV station in the same market, and also when one company has
Shared Service Agreements and Joint Sales Agreements with two to three TV
stations within the same market. It commonly occurs with Top Four Duopoly
stations. In some of those markets, it appears that only one newsroom is
servicing entire communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Media Democracy advocates
have been warning for decades that a single corporation could dominate all
local news and information in Anytown, USA. It appears </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">that
dystopian threat to democracy is now becoming a reality. It is vital to our
very democracy that we develop sufficient data to determine exactly what is
occurring – now while we can still stem the tide.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Please see the entire comment and suggestions here: <br /></span></p>
<p></p><p><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQSna7JmTQKsO2aOGk7hwgNDqn-8PYg-VuKHFaCHnX928WxC8yRigZPyeROOVIUFPH8leX4l0QSPmTw/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQSna7JmTQKsO2aOGk7hwgNDqn-8PYg-VuKHFaCHnX928WxC8yRigZPyeROOVIUFPH8leX4l0QSPmTw/pub</a></b><br /></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-44868556606495930542022-10-19T15:19:00.001-07:002022-10-19T15:19:27.037-07:00Why is Alex Jones Still on Our Public Airwaves?<p><b>Parents of Sandy Hook victims awarded $965M in second trial against
radio hoaxster, but FCC has taken no action against his broadcast
lies...</b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b> <i><a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=14429#more-14429" target="_blank">originally published at the BradBlog October 14, 2022</a><br /></i></b></p><p>On Wednesday, a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut awarded parents of
schoolchildren slain by a gunman's bullets an extraordinary $965 <em>million</em>
in damages because far-right propagandist, conspiracy theorist and
huckster Alex Jones publicly defamed them. He did so on U.S. radio
stations which are licensed by the federal government to serve in the
public interest. (The jury's award on Wednesday follows a $49 million
award to Sandy Hook parents <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-must-pay-45-million-punitive-damages-family-sandy-hook-mass-rcna41738">in a separate case</a> decided in Texas on August 5.)
</p><p>Jones and guests on his <i>InfoWars</i> show, broadcast as a radio
program over our public airwaves and over the Internet, falsely and
repeatedly claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a
hoax. He told millions of listeners no children were shot; that grieving
parents were actually paid "crisis actors"; that the entire shooting,
which took the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults, was staged by
gun opponents to somehow further their agenda. </p>
<p>As determined by both the Texas and Connecticut cases, these radio
broadcasts caused some of Jones' deranged listeners to threaten the
grieving parents' lives. According to court documents, Leonard Pozner,
whose six-year old son Noah was killed, received <a href="https://apnews.com/article/b3d2d2f44dd14b44a1ef7f15706b2f79">threatening voicemails</a>:
"You gonna die. Death is coming to you real soon." Pozner and his wife
relocated seven times to avoid harassment based on Jones' remarks. Each
time they moved, Jones' followers published their new addresses online.
"Sometimes I lie awake at night worrying that despite our efforts at
security, a determined conspiracy fanatic might gain entry to our home,"
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/400985-alex-jones-lawyer-seeks-to-make-addresses-of-sandy-hook-parents-public/">said</a> Noah's mother, Veronique De La Rosa.</p>
<p>Why is Jones allowed to use our publicly-owned radio airwaves to
spread these dangerous lies? To encourage his listeners to cause direct
harm to innocent individuals who have already suffered more grief than
we can imagine? It should be against the law. It already, kind of, is...</p>
<p><a id="more-14429"></a></p>
<p>During the Connecticut case, Francine Wheeler, mother of slain six-year-old Ben, <a href="https://www.chron.com/news/article/Alex-Jones-testify-defamation-17482967.php">told of an encounter</a>
at a conference for women who had lost children to shootings. Another
mother who had lost her son asked about the photo on Wheeler's necklace.
Wheeler said, "That's my son Ben. He died in his first-grade classroom
at Sandy Hook School." The other woman replied, "What? You are lying.
That didn't happen."</p>
<p>Scarlett Lewis, mother of six-year old slain Jesse Lewis, confronted Jones <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/jesse-was-real-mother-of-six-year-old-murdered-at-sandy-hook-addresses-alex-jones-directly-for-saying-shooting-was-a-hoax/">during the first defamation trial</a>
against Jones in Texas. "You're still on your show today trying to say
that I'm, implying that I'm an actress, that I am 'deep state.' …
Truth, truth is so vital to our world. Truth is what we base our reality
on, and we have to agree on that to have a civil society. Sandy Hook is
a hard truth. … But I've, since that day, dedicated my life to keeping
kids safe. … And having a quarter of Americans doubt that Sandy Hook
happened or doubt the facts around Sandy Hook is not conducive to
keeping our kids safe. It's not."</p>
<p>Local radio stations broadcast Jones' lies into communities <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/2018/09/us-radio-stations-airing-alex-jones.html">throughout the United States</a>.
But let's be clear: We the People own the airwaves over which radio is
broadcast, and all U.S. radio stations are legally required --- as a
condition of their licenses --- to "serve the public interest." Is it in
our collective interest for radio stations to cause continuing harm to
Sandy Hook parents who lost their precious children? It is not. Now is
our time to act. </p>
<p>Once upon a time, the Sandy Hook parents could have defended
themselves directly on the air by demanding the simple right to respond
to Jones' personal attacks, but the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) withdrew the Personal Attack Rule in 2000. So, today, the parents'
only recourse was to hire lawyers and spend years in litigation. (It is
long past time for the FCC to restore our right to respond.) </p>
<p>Jones is also in clear violation of the FCC's rule against airing hoaxes on radio or TV. The Code of Federal Regulations (<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1217">47 C.F.R. § 73.1217</a>)
prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees from broadcasting false
information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if: (1) the licensee
knows this information is false; (2) it is foreseeable that broadcast of
the information will cause substantial public harm; and (3) broadcast
of the information does, in fact, directly cause substantial public
harm. </p>
<p>Radio station management certainly knew the harm and, if they didn't
at first, they certainly know now. They are complicit in the damage
caused to Sandy Hook parents. Yet no one in power holds them
accountable. The FCC, which has received letters from local listeners
demanding it enforce the hoax rule, stands mute. </p>
<p>It is possible that the FCC might act if Commission leadership were
fully in place. Currently, the seat of one Democratic FCC Commissioner
is vacant; Senate leader Chuck Schumer has not yet brought Biden nominee
Gigi Sohn up for a confirmation vote. It looks like he is waiting for
November election results. If the Senate picks up at least two more
Democratic Senators, Sohn's nomination is likely to be approved.</p>
<p>Here is what really works: Local people who understand they are the
legal owners of local radio airwaves are putting public pressure on
offending radio stations. In areas where Jones used to broadcast, people
sent letters, made phone calls and even personal visits to radio
station management to demand our right to <i>facts</i> over our public
airwaves. Some have written op-eds or letters to editors about this
issue. As a result, many radio stations voluntarily took Jones off the
air. We salute both the stations and the active citizens who made it
happen.</p>
<p>But about 25 other stations resist. Some are in key swing states. Media Action Center has developed <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/2022/08/was-sandy-hook-school-shooting-faked-by.html">an action</a> to help people protest Jones' continuing hoax(es). It includes a list of <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/2018/09/us-radio-stations-airing-alex-jones.html">stations</a> believed to be airing Jones, a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L-tUJAGLuBsMwxFd7g8seS8MlckJ_JnTfrbdEZHaQBI/edit">letter</a> for people to send to the FCC, and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w6MjhPGSzh1IJUYQfuh-3UVBlWUhpbk5takKXlV4xpk/edit">another letter</a> to send to station management. </p>
<p>The Alex Jones fabrications over Sandy Hook brings the debate over
mis- and disinformation to the forefront of society. Everyone is asking
what we can do about it. Start by complaining to the managers of the
airwaves we legally own. If they refuse, let's pull their licenses. It
is in the peoples' power to do so - if we act.</p>
<p></p><center><b>* * *</b></center><p><b> </b></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-81719044114472093072021-10-11T12:48:00.004-07:002022-10-07T11:43:59.017-07:00What the FCC can do to Right the Disinformation Wrongs<p style="text-align: right;"> October 11, 2021</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you to Jen Senko, author of the new book <a href="https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/" target="_blank">The Brainwashing of My Dad</a> and the documentary of the same name, for promoting the work of my activist arm, the <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank">Media Action Center</a>, on <a href="https://www.thomhartmann.com/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann</a>'s radio show today. Thom was asking about we can do about the disinformation problem in this country. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On October 4, through the Media Action Center, I filed an official Comment to the FCC's Quadrennial Review. In that, I make several specific recommendations about what the FCC can do; without their leadership, all is lost. The Congress also can pass laws. Please see the full report on the <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/2021/10/4-2021-thursday-september-4-sue-wilson.html" target="_blank">Media Action Center website</a> or in pdf form <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQk5O8PYr8wDy3hWSbkYEN61JWtf7WJ1/view" target="_blank">here</a>: </span></span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQk5O8PYr8wDy3hWSbkYEN61JWtf7WJ1/view"><span style="font-size: small;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQk5O8PYr8wDy3hWSbkYEN61JWtf7WJ1/view</span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">What follows is my opening statement and specific rules the Federal Communications Commission should pass. I encourage my readers to read the entire document as it encompasses more than ten years of my research into the topic of disinformation.</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>OPENING STATEMENT TO THE FCC:</b><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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January 6, 2021 were entirely foreseeable and, and for those of us watching
media policy, predictable. In the arena of public opinion, current Federal Communications
Commission rules to govern broadcast radio licensees have been rewarding
far-right authoritarian ideologies for a generation, and in practice,
preventing any real debate over the air to counter politically motivated lies
and disinformation. This problem is compounded by too few radio licensees in
any one market, restricting local competition. Looking forward, new FCC rules
could well allow one politically motivated TV station group to control all the local
news content in TV and radio stations and newspapers in single towns all over
the country. With our national debate now pivoting to preventing
disinformation, we all realize that FCC media rules really do matter to the
very foundation of our country. The FCC has an opportunity now to consider the
true impact its rules have on the competition of ideas and information, and
rise to this occasion to protect not only industry profits, but also Democracy
principles. This paper seeks to provide relevant history, data, and a road map
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Restore the
opportunity to respond to both personal and political attacks on our publicly
owned airwaves. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If
a radio or TV broadcaster attacks someone personally, that person must have the
right to respond, to defend himself or herself on the same program where they
have been attacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a radio or TV
show spends hours promoting one political viewpoint, a competitor of opposing
views should have the right to respond in that same time slot. This common
sense rule change ensures fair competition not only between business
competitors but also in the debate so crucial to Democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Using proceeds from the $48 million
Sinclair fine, reinstate a 21<sup>st</sup> Century version of the “FCC Office
of Plans and Policy's Working Paper Series.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">As we have learned, the
Federal Communications Commission abandoned its former practice of supporting data
driven studies. The agency now relies on underfunded non-profit organizations
and independent journalists to counter studies funded by the well-heeled
broadcast industry. This creates an anti-competitive advantage for industry.
Industry has the further benefit of obtaining actual data from the FCC for its
reports – because the industry is providing its own data – which is largely
unavailable to the public. Is the data industry is providing to the Commission even
correct?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Armchair studies suggest it is
not, but well-funded studies will provide the facts so crucial to preserving
our Democracy in these tenuous times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Get
a current snapshot of Local TV industry operations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Study<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>individual TV markets to determine how
many station groups are currently operating within a single community. Determine
how many Network stations within that market each group currently controls, how
many non-network stations each group controls. Determine whether station groups
are operating within the guidelines established by law or whether they are
creating shell operations to hide the control of more than their allotted share
of licenses to broadcast in every community. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ensure
competition for Local News<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Determine
on a market by market basis whether station groups are providing different
local news stories on each of their TV stations in a single community, or
whether they are merely duplicating local news stories on their multiple TV
stations. Collaborate with willing local level groups to monitor the airwaves
in their own communities across the USA. Using this data, develop guidelines so
every community has competition in the realm of news and information.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Rewrite
Radio licensee ownership caps<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Limit the total numbers
of radio licenses to a single radio group to four in a single market, thereby
creating opportunities for more station groups to compete. Balance the scale of
station Size so each station can have at least one high wattage station. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Expand
the number of five FCC Commissioners to seven to include two Public Interest
Commissioners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">These public interest
Commissioners will provide the Commission needed insight from real communities
outside the Beltway to better serve the public in the Commission’s decision-making
process.</span></p>
<p> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-57673923325756009122021-05-07T13:44:00.001-07:002021-05-07T13:44:52.929-07:00NEWS RELEASE - FCC FOIA Response Inadequate<p style="text-align: right;"> May 6, 2021</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">On October 20, 2020, I, Sue Wilson, filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Federal Communications Commission to obtain documents pertaining to the FCC's decision to enter into a Consent Decree with Sinclair Broadcasting over its behavior in its proposed merger with Tribune Media. The Commission itself ordered a public hearing over Sinclair's deliberate misstatements it made to the FCC in its application to merge with Tribune. Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin called into question whether, given the gravity of the misstatements, Sinclair had sufficient character to hold any broadcast licenses. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Rather than follow through with the public hearing, the Commission made a deal behind closed doors to issue a Consent Decree and fine Sinclair $48 million. What specific information did Sinclair provide the FCC that resolved these all important character issues? <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Today, the FCC responded with a few documents which are already on the public record. They provided no documents that explain or justify why they made the decision to, in secret, dismiss the character and misrepresentation issues it had previously raised.</p><p style="text-align: left;">April 1, 2021, my attorney Arthur Belendiuk filed a Complaint on my behalf with the District Court of Appeals in Washington, DC to obtain the required documents. We will continue to pursue these documents in the Courts.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><p></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-23464565272115356922021-04-16T16:29:00.001-07:002021-04-16T16:29:25.539-07:00SCOTUS Approves FCC Rule Allowing Further Consolidation of Local Media Outlets<p style="text-align: left;"> <b>Under Trump, the federal agency created a Catch-22 on new rule by requiring private research to counter hidden public data...</b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13820" target="_blank">originally posted at BradBlog.com April 12, 2021</a><br /></p><p></p><p>While I was researching a piece last September about <a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13569">Sinclair Broadcasting's illegal TV ownership shell game</a>,
I stumbled into a Supreme Court case. Donald Trump's Federal
Communications Commission Chair, Ajit Pai, had filed a case at SCOTUS, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1231/141900/20200417141044916_OSG%20Prometheus%20Cert%20Petition%2014.pdf"><i>Federal Communications Commission v. Prometheus Radio Project</i> [PDF]</a>,
which would allow one media conglomerate to own the local newspaper, 2
network TV stations, 1-2 additional TV stations, and 8 radio stations
--- all in the same community. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZaH8Gs8sFB8dwcRfU_GFH9RIPUkfwB9ucs1tXCyvEmNis6WIU06fee6vfy-mn2XWex8xem4UbUFerMFzwc0LdHfyLkxUd5q4hbzO51-jTZkGAVdLNq6LnP1C8M_4OCnziFCzienXd5xY/s293/FCC_Chair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZaH8Gs8sFB8dwcRfU_GFH9RIPUkfwB9ucs1tXCyvEmNis6WIU06fee6vfy-mn2XWex8xem4UbUFerMFzwc0LdHfyLkxUd5q4hbzO51-jTZkGAVdLNq6LnP1C8M_4OCnziFCzienXd5xY/s0/FCC_Chair.jpg" /></a></div>The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals had previously found, in
2017, that the FCC failed to adequately study the matter before making
the rules change that would adversely affect ownership of media outlets
by women and minorities.<p></p>
<p>But the danger of the scheme to all of us was immediately apparent.
Imagine the potential for propaganda by allowing one company to control
the local reporters in virtually every media outlet in a single town! </p>
<p>I had already discovered that Sinclair Broadcasting was illegally
controlling three TV stations in Columbus, Ohio, and doing little more
than duplicating local news content across all three stations. So, on
advice of my colleague and friend Brad Friedman, I began writing an
Amicus ("Friend of the Court") brief in the case to inform the U.S.
Supreme Court of this and other related information.</p>
<p>My first step was to find the research papers the FCC had done on the
topic before its Chair --- on behalf of we, the people --- filed its
case with SCOTUS. To my surprise, however, I found there were none. Zip,
nada, nothing. The FCC was literally taking a case to the Supreme Court
in which it had done <i>no</i> independent research at all...</p>
<p>So, with the aid of Media Action Center (MAC) volunteers, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1231/166343/20210114155632239_Sue%20Wilson%20Main%20Document%20E%20FILE%20update.pdf">our Amicus brief [PDF]</a>
presented a database with photographic evidence showing that since the
FCC began issuing waivers for station groups to own two network TV
stations in the same town, industry leaders Nexstar, Sinclair
Broadcasting, Gray TV, Scripps, and Tegna collectively now control two
network TV stations in 70 different communities across the United
States. Despite their promises that they would provide more and better
local news by being allowed to own two network stations, MAC found in 53
towns, these broadcasters merely duplicate the same news stories on
both of its local Network affiliate stations.</p>
<p>The broadcasting industry told the Supreme Court that by consolidating two Network stations they can provide <i>better</i> local news coverage. But we found that the opposite is true. Powerful stuff, I thought.</p>
<p>But it didn't matter. The Court was not interested in what damage has <em>already occurred</em>
due to this rule change; they only wanted to know what data had been
provided prior to the rule change for the FCC to have made its decision.
This sets up the Catch-22.</p>
<p>During <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2020/19-1231">oral arguments in <i>FCC v Prometheus</i> on January 19</a>,
the final full day of the Trump Administration, Justice Brett Kavanaugh
asked Prometheus' counsel, Ruthanne M. Deutsch, what research she had
to back up <em>her</em> assertions that allowing one station group to
have multiple TV stations in the same market would harm opportunities
for minorities and females to have any stations at all. Prometheus
argued that the FCC was relying on flawed or non-existent data to make
its assessment, and Deutsch cited a Free Press study to back up her
case. </p>
<p>But Kavanaugh went on to say that during the FCC's proposed rulemaking process, everybody and anybody <i>could</i> have submitted data...but they did not.</p>
<p>On Thursday, April 1, SCOTUS <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-allows-fcc-relax-153039188.html">reversed the lower court's 2017 finding</a>
that the Commission failed to take appropriate steps to study the
effect of this change in rules for women and minority owners. The high
court <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-allows-fcc-relax-153039188.html">unanimously allowed</a> these egregious consolidation rules to go into effect.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1231_i425.pdf">opinion issued by Justice Kavanaugh [PDF]</a>,
the court held that the "FCC considered the record evidence and
reasonably concluded that the three ownership rules at issue were no
longer necessary to serve the agency's public interest goals."
Kavanaugh further wrote that "the FCC acknowledged the gaps in the data
sets it relied on, and noted that, despite its repeated requests for
additional data, it had received no countervailing evidence."</p>
<p>"The Commission further explained that its best estimate, based on
the sparse record evidence, was that repealing or modifying the three
rules at issue here was not likely to harm minority and female
ownership," Kavanaugh asserted on behalf of the Court. That, he wrote,
was enough for the agency to meet the requirements of the Administrative
Procedures Act (APA) in question. Siding with the FCC, he declared: "In
light of the sparse record on minority and female ownership and the
FCC’s findings with respect to competition, localism, and viewpoint
diversity, we cannot say that the agency’s decision to repeal or modify
the ownership rules fell outside the zone of reasonableness for purposes
of the APA."</p>
<p>Cheryl Leanza, the United Church of Christ's media justice policy advisor and co-counsel for Prometheus in the case, <a href="http://uccmediajustice.org/p/salsa/web/blog/public/?blog_entry_KEY=7839">wrote</a>,
"The sparse record is the FCC's own fault. Any analysis of this
question must rely on the FCC's data and yet the FCC has long permitted
broadcast licensees to avoid filing their ownership data with impunity."
That has left independent researchers blinded to key data needed to
fully assess the practical effect of ownership rules enacted by the
federal agency.</p>
<p>The FCC <i>used</i> to commission its own studies on local broadcasting. In 2002, the FCC issued its own report called <a href="https://transition.fcc.gov/ownership/materials/already-released/survivor090002.pdf">"Broadcast Television: Survivor in a Sea of Competition" [PDF]</a>
which showed local TV stations in large markets were making as much as
46% annual profits. Now --- or, at least under former President Donald
Trump --- the FCC puts out obscure "Notice of Prospective Rulemaking"
calls for consumers and largely underfunded non-profit groups to provide
their own research to <i>counter</i> that which is provided to the FCC by well-heeled industry leaders, like the National Association of Broadcasters, which <a href="https://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=6040">applauded the SCOTUS ruling</a> (and, yes, Sinclair Broadcasting's stock shot up more than 3% that day.)</p>
<p>So these rules, which will further decimate local reporting, will go
into effect. Current FCC acting Chair, Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel can <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/acting-chairwoman-rosenworcel-prometheus-v-fcc-decision">chip away at the edges</a>, but as soon as Republicans retake the White House, the floodgates of misinformation will open up in Everytown, USA.</p>
<p>Why is Congress allowing a politically driven agency to make
democracy decisions in the first place? The FCC was originally formed
to keep one radio station's signal from bumping into another; now it is
colluding with major media conglomerates to rob free speech rights of
the very people whose interest it is sworn to serve.</p>
<p>Broadcasting is legally supposed to "serve the public interest." So
contact your Senators and Representatives! Tell them Congress must
supercede the administrative agency's rules and pass <i>actual laws</i>
to protect We the People from unscrupulous broadcasters controlling all
or most of what we hear and see on local radio and TV. And do it <i>now</i>, while they still can.</p>
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<p><i>APTRA, RTNDA, PRNDI and Emmy-winning Sue Wilson is a broadcast activist journalist, the director of the documentary </i><a href="https://youtu.be/peVN7_LZYPM">Broadcast Blues</a><i>, and founder of the <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/">Media Action Center</a>. Reach her at <a href="mailto:act@mediaactioncenter.net">act@mediaactioncenter.net</a> or via Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/sueblueswilson">@SueBluesWilson</a></i></p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-16481336989333201992021-01-18T12:42:00.004-08:002021-02-08T15:51:48.934-08:00Supreme Court: Say no to the FCC and #SaveLocalNews! <p style="text-align: right;"> January 18, 2021<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: small;">The last act of the Trump administration may prove to be the most damaging. </span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQC0e_7Qo0wFQWsHJNGFIdXNQNapQpdq1ZIKZDzaM-OCnXYhZN9-lWxg1weS9pc8O4TU2dCkfljFJCVW8TnHXRZHsNqfSte4z2SJA45bhebc-6F38Luwkme9npZKFiARKM17aMB4nqf8/s1140/Sue+MAC+Amicus+Brief+booklet+cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="1140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQC0e_7Qo0wFQWsHJNGFIdXNQNapQpdq1ZIKZDzaM-OCnXYhZN9-lWxg1weS9pc8O4TU2dCkfljFJCVW8TnHXRZHsNqfSte4z2SJA45bhebc-6F38Luwkme9npZKFiARKM17aMB4nqf8/s320/Sue+MAC+Amicus+Brief+booklet+cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-1231.html?fbclid=IwAR3gJ2Je1-2N17FMuFLeakT14p5bN4AR7gm2oFVfCoe3MhC_xSXEh0yaP8A" target="_blank">Supreme Court will hear a case January 19</a> which, if decided in favor of the Federal
Communications Commission, will accelerate this country’s mis- and
disinformation crisis. In FCC v Prometheus, the FCC, under direction of Trump
designated Chair Ajit Pai, is trying to change local broadcasting rules so one
company could own the local newspaper, all or most of the TV stations and all
or most of the radio stations - in the same town. One voice, one community, no
opportunity for dissent. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">The agency
legally tasked to “serve the public interest, convenience and necessity” has
acted to eliminate public debate for decades; those FCC actions over time have directly
led to the crisis in the nation’s Capitol today. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">The
propaganda of World War II taught our leaders to safeguard the publicly owned
airwaves from one single voice gaining too much power. The best way to serve
the public interest was to ensure the public could have access to the airwaves
we collectively own. So Congress established <a href="https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf" target="_blank">limits on how many stations a single operator could have to ensure diversity of voices</a>. The <a href="https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=comm" target="_blank">FCC established the
Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and TV stations to “afford reasonable <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opportunity</i> for discussion of
conflicting views on matters of public importance.”</a> They established the
Personal Attack rule, which provided anyone attacked personally on our publicly
owned airwaves the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opportunity</i> to
respond on the air. There was the Political Editorializing rule, which said if
a station editorialized against a candidate for public office, it would offer
an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opportunity</i> for a response. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">Starting in
1987, the <a href="https://fair.org/extra/the-fairness-doctrine/" target="_blank">FCC took away the public’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opportunity</i>
for give and take</a> by eliminating all those rules and more. The agency has even
recently removed its prohibition of “incitement to violence” from its website. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">In 1996,
<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/general/telecommunications-act-1996" target="_blank">Congress allowed one operator to control as many radio stations as they could buy.</a> Just a handful bought all the best radio real estate, then excluded
liberal and moderate shows from being on the air.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">That
takeover of who may speak and who may not respond into microphones has
literally divided our culture. Sean Hannity’s radio show (which has 15 million
listeners, as opposed to the 4 million viewers he has on Fox News,) is rated by
conservatives as the second most trusted news source in the country; Rush
Limbaugh follows as third with his 15 million listeners (according to Pew
Research.) Talkers Magazine <a href="http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-audiences/" target="_blank">data indicates 100 million people listen</a> every day
to what was once considered “Conservative” but now is clearly Right Wing talk radio
hosts. Certainly there is some overlap of those listening to multiple programs,
but that number is up from Talkers research showing 60 million listeners in
2016. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">Six days
after the 2020 election, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-theres-simply-no-way-joe-biden-was-legitimately-elected-president-i" target="_blank">Limbaugh told his audience,</a> “There's simply no way Joe
Biden was legitimately elected president. I just can't believe it. I do not
believe it. Intellectually and as I look at what I have learned and what I have
seen over the course of the past four, five days, there's simply no way.”
Unlike yesteryear, no one was allowed an opportunity on the air to counter that
fiction in a meaningful way (people can call into the program, but calls are
screened, and generally only less informed callers are allowed on the air.) Same
when <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-presidential-election-theres-no-doubt-was-stolen" target="_blank">Hannity told his radio audience on December 18</a>, “There's no doubt this was
stolen. No doubt whatsoever. I don't have any doubt in my mind.” </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">So people
who listen to these programs on hundreds of stations nationwide dominating the
drive-through states and brainwashing middle America, absolutely believe the
election was stolen, even though Court after Court has ruled there is no
evidence that occurred. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">Now the FCC
is attempting to do to local TV news what it has done to radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">In an <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1231/166343/20210114155632239_Sue%20Wilson%20Main%20Document%20E%20FILE%20update.pdf" target="_blank">Amicus brief in FCC v Prometheus,</a> Media Action Center details research proving the FCC
is already allowing Sinclair to control three of the seven local TV stations in
Columbus, Ohio, the State Capitol. Those stations are running <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/2020/12/top-broadcasters-controlling-two-local.html" target="_blank">exactly the same local news content on their websites. This pattern plays out in dozens of local TV markets </a>across the United States, and not just with Sinclair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">So the FCC
allows a single operator to control virtually all the local reporting in any
one community. What’s the worst that could happen?</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">In 2009, then
Rep. Mike Pence told C-Span his “Broadcaster Freedom Act” would simply<a href="https://youtu.be/peVN7_LZYPM " target="_blank"> “take away the power of the Federal Communications Commission to restore the Fairness Doctrine without an act of Congress.” </a></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">I disagreed
with him then, but I see the wisdom of it now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Decisions like this are above the FCC’s pay grade.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">Find the Media Action Center Amicus Brief at the Supreme Court detailing how the FCC is looking the other way while TV industry chief are quietly taking over local news <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1231/164674/20201223152750692_Sue%20Wilson%20Main%20Document%20E%20FILE.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>, and tune in to <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?506851-1/telecommunications-act-1996-consolidated-oral-argument" target="_blank">CSPAN</a> tomorrow at 10 AM EST to hear oral arguments. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">#SaveLocalNews<br /></span></p>
Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-90897977838818714852020-09-26T11:52:00.000-07:002020-09-26T11:52:27.022-07:00Why Does the FCC Allow Sinclair Broadcasting to Violate Station Ownership Rules in Baltimore and Beyond?<p> An investigation of FCC, SEC documents in a citizen-filed 'Petition to
Deny' licensing for three stations controlled by the media behemoth may
finally help put an end to the 'sham' control of our public airwaves...</p><p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13569" target="_blank">originally posted September 23, 2020 at BradBlog.com </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Baltimore's crowded TV market highlights the shell game that media
goliath Sinclair Broadcasting plays across the nation to illegally
dominate the information Americans can consume over our public airwaves.
The agency tasked with overseeing those airwaves, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) has long turned a blind eye to allow
Sinclair, the very <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group">powerful purveyor of rightwing propaganda</a>, to violate US law. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyS0-ZxOy4ryZUEFJuSrVQqrVPLoWsbpiPZXO3xFttdQ5LqmP18lSuQ4GyGyhGiV6D7ImxfFX5kR4F4pfpAAdjEH7-Qx1qqWOsdIx4RTMJZoeBJ9_ycJQIQLN52YlxNxKo7eksJt4_Sqk/s462/Sinclair+FCC+photo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="373" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyS0-ZxOy4ryZUEFJuSrVQqrVPLoWsbpiPZXO3xFttdQ5LqmP18lSuQ4GyGyhGiV6D7ImxfFX5kR4F4pfpAAdjEH7-Qx1qqWOsdIx4RTMJZoeBJ9_ycJQIQLN52YlxNxKo7eksJt4_Sqk/s320/Sinclair+FCC+photo.png" /></a></div>Congress passed the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/104/plaws/publ104/PLAW-104publ104.pdf">Telecommunications Act [PDF]</a>
so no single television company could dominate the news and information
available to "We the People" in any single market or even nationwide.
Under the law, a single TV company is permitted to reach no more than
39% of viewers in the United States over all. In a single local
broadcast market, one company may apply to own two stations --- <i>if</i> there are nine or more stations in that market.<p></p>
<p>Baltimore has just <a href="https://www.stationindex.com/tv/markets/Baltimore">eight stations</a>, and <i>three</i> of them are actually owned by Sinclair: WBFF, WNUV, and WUTB.</p>
<p>Sinclair lawyers (who also represent Cunningham Broadcasting and
Deerfield Media) will say Sinclair owns WBFF, Cunningham owns WNUV and
Deerfield owns WUTB. But, in a September 1 legal <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rf-lsJk9tiZdnC2_IR6qi7rKZ0bcCAZJ/view?usp=sharing">Petition to Deny</a>
the renewal of all three stations' licenses, due to both the shell game
and the lies Sinclair has told to protect its unlawful ownership,
Republican attorney Art Belendiuk researched Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) documents to prove that both Deerfield and Cunningham
are actually <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-sinclair-broadcast-fcc-petition-opposing-tv-licenses-20200903-4dgzj3tnurg63dvm56zaeturfi-story.html">both controlled by Sinclair</a>. </p>
<p>"Sinclair controls three television stations in Baltimore, while the
FCC rules do not permit it to control more than one," the petition,
filed on behalf of local viewer Ihor Gawdiak, argues, while detailing
how the shell game of nominal ownership by the other two companies is
simply meant to mask Sinclair's violation of federal law...</p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p>In its application to merge with Tribune Media last year, the FCC
balked when Sinclair tried to transfer two Tribune stations in Texas to
Cunningham and Chicago's Superstation WGN to Baltimore car salesman
Steven Fader, the buddy of Sinclair CEO David Smith. After Sinclair
valued WGN at a mere $60 million (TV stations in the tiny Iowa market
are valued higher), the FCC cried foul and <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-100A1.pdf">called a hearing [PDF]</a> to investigate, questioning "whether those proposed divestitures were in fact 'sham' transactions."</p>
<p>On page 14 of that order, the FCC reminded "licensees that they must
retain ultimate control over their programming and core operations" to
remain licensed. </p>
<p>As the <i>Baltimore Sun</i> summarizes the characterization of
Sinclair's "sham" in the Petition to Deny filed in Baltimore, "Sinclair
owns almost all the [other two] stations’ assets, guarantees or assumes
their indebtedness, approves transactions, expenses and policy decisions
and owns options to buy the companies, stations and licenses at
below-market value. Sinclair controls personnel and programming," the
petition says.</p>
<p>Under a probe by federal regulators, Sinclair eventually withdrew its
merger application with Tribune, knowing that lying to the FCC exhibits
a lack of character, which would have put their licenses at risk. That
should lead to Sinclair losing <i>all</i> of its licenses. </p>
<p><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-19M-01A1.pdf">FCC Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin said [PDF]</a>
in dismissing the Tribune merger application: "[T]he misrepresentation
and/or lack of candor allegations raised in this proceeding is warranted
as part of a more general assessment of Sinclair's basic character
qualifications to be a Commission licensee." She insisted the FCC
further investigate Sinclair's misrepresentations as the real party in
interest of Cunningham and Deerfield, via a license challenge or other
public means. "This alleged deception was ostensibly aimed at allowing
Sinclair to bypass the Commission's multiple ownership limitations. ...
Certainly, the behavior of a multiple station owner before the
Commission may be so fundamental to a licensee's operation that it is
relevant to its qualifications to hold any station license."</p>
<p>Matt Wood, of media watchdog Free Press told the <i>Sun</i> that
Sinclair has used such deceptive ownership arrangements "to control more
stations than they’re actually allowed to under FCC’s local ownership
rules," describing the actions as "an abuse of FCC rules."</p>
<p>Rather than scrutinizing Sinclair publicly, the FCC's Media Bureau
hatched a backroom deal in May 2020 and issued Sinclair (with media
revenues of $1.26 Billion in the quarter ending June 30) a paltry <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-59A1.pdf">$48 million fine [PDF]</a>
for their attempted scam in the Tribune merger proposal. The $48
million was touted as the largest FCC fine ever levied, but it includes
an earlier $13 million fine that Sinclair simply never paid. And in a
case of regulatory déjà vu, the FCC levied a fine against Sinclair way
back in 2001 --- for exactly the same shell game the mega corporation
continues to play.</p>
<p>In settling the matter quietly behind the scenes, FCC legal experts
insist the FCC violated the law. "Once the FCC set a public hearing to
determine Sinclair's qualifications to hold licenses, it has to finish
it publicly," argued the Republican attorney Belendiuk.</p>
<p>The question remained whether TV licensees Cunningham and Deerfield
retain ultimate control of their stations which are operated under Local
Marketing Agreements and Shared Service Agreements and Joint Services
Agreements, all of which are ostensibly legal under FCC rules, but have
strict limitations. On page 13 of the Petition, Belendiuk lists the
criteria the FCC considers to determine who would actually control the
Cunningham and Deerfield stations...</p>
<ul><li>Who controls daily operations (Sinclair);</li><li>Who carries out policy decisions (Sinclair);</li><li>Who is in charge of employment, supervision and dismissal of personnel (Sinclair);</li><li>Who is in charge of paying financial obligations, including operating expenses, (Sinclair);</li><li>Who receives monies and/or profits from the operation of the station (Sinclair).</li></ul>
<p>Belendiuk then reveals the complicated financial shell game used to cover it all up.</p>
<p>Even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group">Wikipedia's description of Sinclair reveals</a>
that Sinclair's Smith family controls both Cunningham and Deerfield.
WNUV and WUTB websites even bear Sinclair logos. But Belendiuk found the
"official" owner of Deerfield is Sinclair CEO Smith's personal banker,
Stephen Mumblow, and the "official" owner of Cunningham is Cunningham's
former banker Michael Anderson, a man with no broadcast experience and,
in fact, is a paid employee of Sinclair.</p>
<p>In a circular deal Belendiuk describes in detail starting on page 15
of the Petition, Anderson acquired all the voting shares of Cunningham
for $405,000, far below the company's actual worth. Page 25 of the
Petition charges: "Only a front would agree to sell his voting shares in
Cunningham for approximately $400,000, when Cunningham, just for its
consolidated stations, generated $39 million in revenues in the first
quarter of 2020." In addition, the Sinclair founding family Smith
brothers have an option to buy the shares for that same $405,000 plus 1%
per annum - for the next 32 years.</p>
<p>It is all, indeed, a "sham".</p>
<p>In addition, Sinclair's shell game gives the media behemoth options
to purchase Cunningham and Deerfield's stations for a fraction of their
worth, for terms as long as 48 years. In November 2012, Sinclair, using
the shell Deerfield, <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/fox-selling-wutb-deerfield-media-27-million-43787">purchased Baltimore's WUTB from FOX Television for $2.7 million</a>, but by July 2014, SEC documents reveal, Sinclair was given the option to buy WUTB from Deerfield for a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rf-lsJk9tiZdnC2_IR6qi7rKZ0bcCAZJ/view?usp=sharing">mere $330,000</a>. </p>
<p>Should media ownership laws continue to be relaxed, as they have
under the FCC's Chairmanship of Trump appointed Ajit Pai, Sinclair will
exercise options for its Cunningham and Deerfield properties for far
below market rates, freezing out legitimate prospective buyers, and
expanding its power to misinform Americans beyond scrutiny of federal
agencies.</p>
<p>The real culprit, however, is the FCC. The agency is required to
serve the public interest by regulating broadcasters use of the limited
airwaves on behalf of We the People. But it is so captured by the
corporations it is meant to regulate that it simply ignores its own
statutory mandate. Belendiuk's petition to deny the licenses of WBFF,
WUTB and WNUV aptly prosecutes the crime against the public. Will the
FCC ignore it? Probably, unless We the People rise to protect that
which is ours --- the public airwaves.</p>
<p>The FCC does not respond to public pressure, but does respond to
Congressional inquiries. It's time to alert your Congresspersons so that
this Petition gets a hearing before the FCC that is <i>not</i> a sham.</p>
<p>You can read the entire <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rf-lsJk9tiZdnC2_IR6qi7rKZ0bcCAZJ/view?usp=sharing">39-page Petition to Deny here</a>. The link to the FCC file will be made available as soon as the FCC posts it.</p>
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<p><i>APTRA, RTNDA, PRNDI and Emmy-winning Sue Wilson is a broadcast activist journalist, the director of the documentary </i><a href="https://youtu.be/peVN7_LZYPM">Broadcast Blues</a><i>, and founder of the <a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/">Media Action Center</a>. Reach her at <a href="mailto:act@mediaactioncenter.net">act@mediaactioncenter.net</a> or via Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/sueblueswilson">@SueBluesWilson</a></i></p>
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<p><b><i>UPDATE FROM BRAD 9/25/2020</i></b>: Sue Wilson and Art
Belendiuk, the Republican attorney who filed the "Petition to Deny"
described above, joined me to discuss this case on <a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13576">today's <i>The BradCast...</i>
</a></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-32101218508762166332020-08-26T13:57:00.008-07:002020-08-31T13:04:02.512-07:00Radio Host Alex Jones promotes dangerous fiction. Stations should say so.<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article222742110.html" target="_blank">originally published in the Sacramento Bee </a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><img alt="In this Monday, April 17, 2017 photo, “Infowars” host Alex Jones, right, arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas. Jones, the right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, is a performance artist whose true personality is nothing like his on-air persona, according to a lawyer defending the “Infowars” broadcaster in a child custody battle. (Tamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman via AP)" class="responsive-image" style="max-width: 728px;" title="In this Monday, April 17, 2017 photo, “Infowars” host Alex Jones, right, arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas. Jones, the right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, is a performance artist whose true personality is nothing like his on-air persona, according to a lawyer defending the “Infowars” broadcaster in a child custody battle. (Tamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman via AP)" /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWFShYh0JYDLEooMZikxv6ovitdYwQ5aiIK2EwGcFjmSed4zA2GTEqfLRxoodJEsfk2DaCXv4yfaI-smDRmQPN3HL3fAOsxUzrGxnfq8JyutzoyfwZHPbSf6YbgGf-RuRRPPfBdD9yiQ/s1140/People+Alex+Jones.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWFShYh0JYDLEooMZikxv6ovitdYwQ5aiIK2EwGcFjmSed4zA2GTEqfLRxoodJEsfk2DaCXv4yfaI-smDRmQPN3HL3fAOsxUzrGxnfq8JyutzoyfwZHPbSf6YbgGf-RuRRPPfBdD9yiQ/s640/People+Alex+Jones.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><div style="color: black; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px;"><br />Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article222742110.html#storylink=cpy</div><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> In this Monday, April 17, 2017 photo, “Infowars” host Alex Jones, right,
arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas. Jones, the
right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, is a performance artist
whose true personality is nothing like his on-air persona, according to a
lawyer defending the “Infowars” broadcaster in a child custody battle.
(Tamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
<span class="byline">
Tamir Kalifa
</span>
<span class="credit">AP</span></span></span></p><div style="color: black; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px;"><br />Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article222742110.html#storylink=cpy</div><p dir="ltr">Even California’s wildfires have been wrapped into radio host Alex Jones’ dangerous conspiracy theories.</p> <p dir="ltr">In
a post on Jones’ Infowars website last year, a man identified as a fire
captain suggested only an energy weapon could have caused Northern
California’s October 2017 fires.</p> <p dir="ltr">This summer, Forrest
Clark, a mentally troubled Jones fan who had shared a theory on social
media that California wildfires were part of an international
conspiracy, was charged with starting the Holy Fire.</p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr">“It’s all going to burn like you planned,” he wrote in a text to a volunteer fire chief before allegedly starting the fire,<a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-holy-fire-arson-suspect-20180812-story.html"> according to The Los Angeles Times</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Jones
occupies a central position in the realm of conspiracy, and has rightly
been removed from major social media platforms for harassment,
glorification of violence and child endangerment. But radio stations
around the country still broadcast the dangerous falsehoods he promotes
on “The Alex Jones Show,” which are contributing to real-world terror.</p><p dir="ltr">He told radio listeners nationwide that the Sandy Hook school shooting never happened. </p> <p dir="ltr"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p dir="ltr">“I’ve
looked at it and undoubtedly there’s a cover up, there’s actors,
they’re manipulating, they’ve been caught lying, and they were
pre-planning before it and rolled out with it,” he said, according to
court documents.</p><p dir="ltr">Jones planted the seed and his minions took action. Death threats forced the parents of slain 6-year-old Noah Pozner to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/alex-jones-defamation-suit-sandy-hook.html?login=email&auth=login-email"> relocate seven times</a>, according to The New York Times; they now live too far away to visit their son’s grave.</p><p dir="ltr">He told listeners several times that Democratic operatives
were running a child-sex ring out of a Washington, D.C. pizza place. One
of his fans subsequently shot the place up with an assault rifle. </p> <p dir="ltr">These are just a couple of the many hoaxes perpetuated by a man identified by his own lawyer as<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-fake-news-infowars-alex-jones-performance-artist-n747491"> a “performance artist</a>.”</p> <p dir="ltr">So why is this guy still on the radio?</p> <p dir="ltr">Jones
has First Amendment rights. The right to free speech, to stand on a
street corner and share his views, whatever their relation to the truth.</p> <p dir="ltr">But
radio, which reaches 93 percent of our population, comes with a legal
responsibility to listeners to “serve the public interest.” In Red Lion
Broadcasting v. FCC, the Supreme Court said it’s the First Amendment
right “of the viewing and listening public, and not the right of the
broadcasters, which is paramount.”</p><p dir="ltr">The Federal Communications Commission provides a way for
stations to air hoaxes without violating the public trust: air a
disclaimer saying the program is fiction.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Any
programming accompanied by a disclaimer will be presumed not to pose
foreseeable harm if the disclaimer clearly characterizes the program as a
fiction and is presented in a way that is reasonable under the
circumstances,” according to the agency’s rule.</p> <p dir="ltr">What a defense against fake news: if a program is fiction, simply make the broadcaster say so.</p> <p dir="ltr">But the FCC won’t enforce its rules without complaints from the public, so it’s time to start writing.</p> <p dir="ltr">Locally,
Alex Jones perpetrates his hoaxes all over the Sacramento region every
weeknight on KAHI-AM, licensed to Immaculate Heart Radio. Nationally, he
is heard on World Wide Christian Radio.</p><p dir="ltr">The Media Action Center is running a campaign to get the
FCC to label Alex Jones’ show as fiction. More information, including a
template letter people can send to the agency, is available at<a href="https://www.mediaactioncenter.net/"> https://www.mediaactioncenter.net</a>.</p> <div class="ng_endnote_contact">Sue Wilson is the director of Media Action Center. She may be reached at <a href="mailto:act@mediaactioncenter.net" target="_blank">act@mediaactioncenter.net</a>.</div> <div style="color: black; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px;"><br />Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article222742110.html#storylink=cpy</div><div style="color: black; font: 10pt sans-serif; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-transform: none; width: 1px;"><br />Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article222742110.html#storylink=cpy</div>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-73864715228270925782020-07-03T10:20:00.002-07:002020-08-26T13:45:52.922-07:00Small Town, Big Smears, No Rebuttal Allowed<div class="wmMessage_user_text_special" id="wmMessage" style="width: 962px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UPDATE: Yesterday, July 5, Publisher Jack Mitchell posted </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">both <a href="http://www.ledger.news/news/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article_0991804c-bc95-11ea-b0d3-038dda623874.html" target="_blank">my open letter</a> and the <a href="http://www.ledger.news/news/local_news/volunteer-academy-in-the-works-for-afpd/article_642c5a1e-bc99-11ea-ae49-3febba76fe91.html" target="_blank">Amador Fire press release </a>online, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and featured both links on the front page of the Ledger Dispatch. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Thank you, Jack. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> Given the many questions posed in <a href="http://www.ledger.news/news/guest-commentary-afpd-heads-need-accountability-for-decisions/article_016eb9c2-bc25-11ea-833c-3f8b6370fd6a.html" target="_blank">Mr. Frank Moreno's OpEd </a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and by many others privately, I am calling on the <span class="profileLink">Ledger </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="profileLink">Dispatch</span> and its owner the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Indians to hire an independent investigative reporter, someone </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">without personal connections to the pe<span class="text_exposed_show">ople
involved, to answer </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">the "Who, what, where, when how and why" of this
very </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">important story. Fire safety is the single most important issue </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">of
our time in this rural county, and we deserve the best public </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">service we
can have. Certainly there are excellent reporters close </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">by who have
worked for McClatchy news' The Sacramento Bee </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">who would be willing to take this on, or perhaps given the state </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">implications, someone from CalMatters. </span></span></div><div class="wmMessage_user_text_special" id="wmMessage" style="width: 962px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span><a name='more'></a></span>
<br />
<div class="text_exposed_show">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Let your light shine, Ledger Dispatch. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">I'll say a bit more, please see my comments below.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">---------------------------- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> UPDATE 10:15 AM July 4: Still nothing online as promised, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">except a second hit piece is featured. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">UPDATE JULY 3: Publisher Jack Mitchell tells me that my letter and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the Press release from Amador Fire are both featured</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in today's July 3 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">print
paper. As soon as I can link to the stories I will revise this post.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">---------------------- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">July 3, 2020</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">From my Facebook page: "Our local newspaper, the Ledger </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Dispatch
is mounting a witch hunt and refuses to allow the entire </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">story to be
told. Such is the danger of living in a community that </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">has only one news
source. So I have published "Small Town, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Big Smears, No Rebuttal
Allowed" on my blog as it </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">is the only means to provide the other side of
the story.</span><br />
<br />
<div>
<span face="" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span><br />
<div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Original Story:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">I
have written a lot over the years about the danger of </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">relying on a
single news source in one community, but for </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">the first time, this has
hit home with me. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFX3a-QJvav0D0FYZmlvK9b1MwO658mvTLiJ3DFatipdgOQv_yYVsl4kAkt-staqbCSch3QYCtiYgsL1c19iQ-MJBNwLHOJEh8H8FdvP01b0suEQxX4HnL-ep8NyZaYbL73-6_TzHq17I/s1600/Ledger+Dispatch.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="1098" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFX3a-QJvav0D0FYZmlvK9b1MwO658mvTLiJ3DFatipdgOQv_yYVsl4kAkt-staqbCSch3QYCtiYgsL1c19iQ-MJBNwLHOJEh8H8FdvP01b0suEQxX4HnL-ep8NyZaYbL73-6_TzHq17I/s320/Ledger+Dispatch.png" width="320" /></a><span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Jack Mitchell, the publisher of the only newspaper in </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Amador County, has engaged in a witch hunt against the </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Fire Chief of
our local Fire Department. My readers who </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">focus on media accountability
will be shocked with his </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">obvious bias and inattention to facts in his initial </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ledger.news/news/accusations-of-mistreatment-from-amador-fire-protection-district-volunteers-grow-louder/article_b7e96520-b721-11ea-9553-f31d9ee19029.html" target="_blank">piece</a>,
to which I responded. Rather than printing my </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">open letter to the Board
of Supervisors correcting the </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">facts, he has doubled down with more accusations, yet </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">he provides zero opportunity for comments or rebuttal. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
<div>
<br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">I
am publishing my letter below, as this is the ONLY </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">means I have to color in the picture made yellow by </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">someone who apparently cares more about an
agenda than facts. </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Will it reach as many people as his paper does?
Doubtful. </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">But you know what to do.</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
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<div>
</div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
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<span face=""><span style="color: black;">________________________________________________ </span></span><br />
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
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<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
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<span face=""><span style="color: black;">June 30, 2020 </span></span></div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
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<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
<div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">An Open Letter to the Board of Supervisors</span></span></div>
<span face=""><span style="color: black;">
<div>
</div>
<div>
Dear Amador County Board of Supervisors,</div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
I am writing to you in response to the many misstatements </div>
<div>
and unstated facts in Jack Mitchell's <a href="http://www.ledger.news/news/accusations-of-mistreatment-from-amador-fire-protection-district-volunteers-grow-louder/article_b7e96520-b721-11ea-9553-f31d9ee19029.html" target="_blank" title="Mitchell piece on AFPD">recent article</a>
about </div>
<div>
the Amador Fire Protection District in the Ledger Dispatch, </div>
<div>
especially the allegation that AFPD is trying to destroy </div>
<div>
volunteer fire
fighting in this county. Here is what I know </div>
<div>
based on my personal
dealings with Fire Chief Walt </div>
<div>
White and AFPD about volunteer staffing in Fiddletown.</div>
<div>
<br />
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<div>
After seeing three family members
lose homes in Paradise, </div>
<div>
and after last summers' long power outages and
numerous </div>
<div>
red flag warning days, I joined with others to find ways </div>
<div>
to
keep our community in Fiddletown safer from fires. </div>
<div>
We held Town Hall meetings in the Community Center, and </div>
<div>
quickly ascertained that we no
longer have any volunteers </div>
<div>
firefighters left in Fiddletown. Suddenly,
staffing our </div>
<div>
station became job one for the <a href="https://fiddletownca.org/fire-safe-council" target="_blank" title="Fiddletown Fire Safe Council.">Fiddletown Fire Safe Council.</a></div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
By
chance, I met Chief White at a meeting at Assemblyman </div>
<div>
Frank Bigelow's local office, and brought up this need to </div>
<div>
him. He told me that if he could find a way to build a </div>
<div>
shower and create sleeping quarters in the fire station, </div>
<div>
he could staff it with volunteers 24-7. I responded that </div>
<div>
I thought the Fiddletown community would be willing to </div>
<div>
raise funds for such a task, and I am happy to tell you </div>
<div>
that the community has stepped up and, with the aid of </div>
<div>
the local Passport Rotary and the Plymouth Foothills </div>
<div>
Rotary Clubs and Rotary International, we have raised more </div>
<div>
than $9,000 toward this goal. As a result of this project, </div>
<div>
I have spoken
with Chief White several times. Kayla Dale, </div>
<div>
AFPD's community outreach
representative, came to one of </div>
<div>
our meetings and gave a presentation on
evacuations during </div>
<div>
emergencies. I have spoken with her many times as
well.</div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
The one thing that I heard over and over
again is that </div>
<div>
AFPD is committed to building a lasting volunteer fire </div>
<div>
fighting staff. And even though we have not yet commenced </div>
<div>
construction
on the firehouse project, Chief White has </div>
<div>
come through for Fiddletown
already: in partnership with </div>
<div>
Pioneer Fire Protection District, they are
staffing two </div>
<div>
volunteer fire fighters inside our long empty fire house </div>
<div>
on
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays starting July 3. I </div>
<div>
learned that they
have built the largest volunteer </div>
<div>
firefighting staff they have had for
years, and also </div>
<div>
learned they are partnering with local non-profits </div>
<div>
for
roadside land clearing and emergency animal </div>
<div>
evacuations. I also am aware of the <a href="https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-grants/articles/firefighter-recruitment-help-is-available-through-safer-grant-sUtd1E2F8sueXsLT/" target="_blank" title="SAFER grant">SAFER grant</a> </div>
<div>
AFPD has written to obtain funding to create a new </div>
<div>
training Academy which would provide free training </div>
<div>
for 100 new volunteers over the next
four years and </div>
<div>
a career path for those who want it. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Yet
in recent days, primarily on Facebook, community </div>
<div>
members are accusing
AFPD of purposely trying to </div>
<div>
destroy the volunteer aspect of firefighting </div>
<div>
throughout the county. Mr. Mitchell fanned these </div>
<div>
flames by writing,
"Coming off the cryptic emails </div>
<div>
and reaching out and investigating the
wild claims </div>
<div>
about AFPD, more than a dozen sources came forward </div>
<div>
to
corroborate, substantiate and define an ongoing </div>
<div>
battle as, according to
all sources, Volunteer </div>
<div>
Firefighters are being quietly and systematically </div>
<div>
wiped out." But Mr. Mitchell did not include all </div>
<div>
the sources, as he
dismissed out of hand the press </div>
<div>
release sent to him by AFPD detailing
all their </div>
<div>
successful volunteer efforts which would have </div>
<div>
doused this
flame. (Full disclosure, after seeing </div>
<div>
such allegations on local FB pages
but before the </div>
<div>
publication of the Ledger article, I suggested to </div>
<div>
AFPD
they put out such a release so people would </div>
<div>
have the facts about their
volunteer efforts. </div>
<div>
Maybe he missed the memo, so here it is </div>
<div>
<a href="http://amadorfire.org/" target="_blank" title="on AFPD's website">on AFPD's website</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmadorFire/photos/a.1025514440821697/3428532110519906/?type=3&theater" target="_blank" title="on Facebook">on Facebook</a>.) </div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
One
last thing. Some on Facebook are saying it </div>
<div>
was the recently dismissed
volunteer Antonio </div>
<div>
Moreno who was bringing volunteer staffing to </div>
<div>
Fiddletown. The first time I heard Mr. Moreno's </div>
<div>
name was in a related
conversation I had with </div>
<div>
Brian Oneto on June 22nd when he told me of </div>
<div>
Moreno's dismissal. I do not know Mr. Moreno, but </div>
<div>
I can tell from the
backlash that he is much loved </div>
<div>
in this community. Perhaps he helped
train one of </div>
<div>
the two volunteers staffing our station, I do not </div>
<div>
know that (the other is provided by El Dorado </div>
<div>
County's Pioneer station, as
Fiddletown crosses </div>
<div>
over into that county.) But I know personally </div>
<div>
that
Chief White has been driving </div>
<div>
this effort for volunteer staffing here.</div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
There
is much more I have to say about state </div>
<div>
requirements for volunteer
firefighter</div>
<div>
training and reasons why volunteer firefighter </div>
<div>
staffing is
dwindling throughout the </div>
<div>
entire nation, but I will reserve that for now.</div>
<div>
.</div>
<div>
Sue Wilson</div>
<div>
Fiddletown</div>
</span></span></div>
<span face="">
</span> </div>
Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-56933107157702201742020-04-04T12:04:00.004-07:002020-06-29T10:29:08.147-07:00Impeachment By Radio - The Elephant in the Room is NOT the GOP<div style="text-align: right;">
<a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13307" target="_blank">originally posted on Bradblog.com</a></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
February 14, 2020 </div>
<br />
<br />
On October 24, 1998, a group of activists from across the United
States gathered in Washington DC to protest the Ken Starr investigation
into Bill Clinton in the first rally ever organized on the Internet.
<br />
Darrell Hampton's umbrella group "We the People" was generally outraged at Starr's excesses; White House staffer <a href="http://www.weinerpublic.com/">Bob Weiner</a>
railed against Ken Starr for subpoenaing him for eating ice cream with a
fellow Democrat; the fledgling group "Censure and MoveOn" (later to
become <a href="https://front.moveon.org/">MoveOn.org</a>) was featured; and my <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011201211246/http://www.truthinamerica.org/page16.html">"Truth in America Project"</a>
focused on the biased media promoting the investigation, media which
had recently gained its dominance from the 1996 Telecommunications Act.<br />
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We all understood the long drawn out Grand Jury investigation of Bill Clinton had found no crimes, and so Starr <i>et al</i> manufactured a perjury trap to have an excuse to impeach the President. As <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4854938/user-clip-sue-wilson-truth-america-project-ken-starr-protest-dc-102498">I said on the Ellipse in front of the White House</a>,
"Is it okay for a big government attorney to work with a private civil
lawyer to see if they can figure out a way to get a man to lie about his
sex life so they can prosecute him for it?"<br />
But what was just coming to light, and what has had a lasting damaging legacy, is the effect of the <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/general/telecommunications-act-1996">1996 Telecommunications Act</a> on our political landscape. <br />
Brief history: When radio and television were first invented,
broadcast pioneers and government officials recognized that radio had
the potential to entertain and inform, but when used improperly, also to
brainwash a population. So Congress passed the <a href="https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf">1934 Communications Act</a>,
which limited any one owner in the United States to owning just 9
stations nationwide: 3 AM radio stations, 3 FM radio stations, 3 TV
stations. The thinking was that by having multiple local owners, no one
person could dominate the (publicly owned) airwaves with political
rhetoric.<br />
Ah, those were the days...<br />
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Over the years, those <a href="https://youtu.be/wBm4OmelOww">rules were relaxed</a>. By the time Ronald Reagan was president, one owner could have 20 AM, 20 FM, and 20 TV stations.<br />
Then, in 1996, President Bill Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to change that law so one media owner could own <a href="https://youtu.be/lWJ4G-VPTqc">as many radio stations nationally as it could buy</a>.<br />
Huge media companies like Clear Channel (now iHeart media) had their
purchase contracts signed the minute the ink was dry on the Act. In no
time, every small, medium and large radio station was owned by just a
handful of companies, companies which programmed the peoples' airwaves
in no time flat with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, coast-to-coast, who
then pummeled the President into impeachment. <br />
Why did Independent Prosecutor Ken Starr ignore four prior
investigations (United States Park Police and FBI and House and Senate
committees) deeming that suicide was the cause of death of Clinton's
longtime friend and Deputy White House Vince Foster, who was found dead
in his car at Fort Marcy Park in 1993, killed by a single gunshot
through his mouth? Because Rush and the rest were screeching about it on
hundreds of radio stations nationwide. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/after-investigating-clinton-white-house-and-vincent-fosters-death-brett-kavanaugh-had-change-of-heart/2018/08/02/66ee2b2c-91f5-11e8-9b0d-749fb254bc3d_story.html">According to Brett Kavanaugh in 1999</a>
--- he had provided legal cover for the investigation --- Starr was
looking into "a lot conspiracy theories, a lot of controversy. He took
the time and made the effort to turn over every stone, to find the
truth." <br />
The truth was, the right wing propaganda machine was unleashed, giving Starr political cover.<br />
Starr gave Talk Radio a full three years to push the "Clintons are
murderers" theory before releasing his conclusion that Foster had indeed
shot himself. By then, the damage was done, and the Far Right today
continues to spread those falsehoods over those same public airwaves.<br />
But the Talkers kept finding new reasons to screech. <i>Filegate! Filegate!</i> Starr investigated, and after years, exonerated the Clintons. <i>Travelgate! Travelgate!</i> Starr investigated, and after years exonerated Bill Clinton. <br />
Then came Paula Jones. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-24-me-32139-story.html">David Brock wrote</a>
in Richard Mellon Scaife's American Spectator Magazine, a $1.7 million
project intended to promote conspiracy theories against the Clintons,
that a woman named "Paula" had once had a liaison with then Governor
Clinton in a hotel room. Conservative lawyers and PR guru Susan
Carpenter McMillan found her, and two days before the statute of
limitations ran out, she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against
President Clinton. (Judge Susan Webber Wright eventually threw the case
out, finding it to have no merit.) But the talk radio onslaught
continued.<br />
Discovery in that case given to Ken Starr by Jones' attorneys led to
Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who bragged to college friends
she was going to Washington wearing her "Presidential kneepads," who
told her erstwhile friend Linda Tripp she's had several affairs with
married men, and who infamously showed President Bill Clinton her thong,
saying, "Wanna play? I'll play."<br />
But the story Talk Radio told was of a philandering President taking advantage of a young girl. <br />
So Starr hauled Clinton in front of the Grand Jury, where he
testified, "There is no sexual relationship with Miss Lewinsky." One
semen stained dress later proved there had been such a relationship. The
President defended his testimony statement by stating, "It depends on
what the meaning of 'is' is." <br />
And the Talkers went nuts. Boom. Impeached.<br />
At the time, and ever since, I spoke with Democrat after Democrat
about reversing the one-sided media ownership rules that refused to
provide We the People with any relevant facts or context about political
issues (a law aided by Reagan's dismissal of the Fairness Doctrine
which had, for decades, provided both sides an opportunity to be heard.)
One after another, they told me it didn't matter, that Rush <i>et al</i> had an older audience which was dying off, and not to worry about it. I still did.<br />
Fast forward to 2020, when the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hillary-clinton-full-a-fiery-new-documentary-trump-regrets-harsh-words-bernie-1271551"><i>Hollywood Reporter</i> interviewed Hillary Clinton</a>
about a documentary of her 2016 Presidential race, they asked her, "How
can the left combat Fox News?" Her response: "We do have some well-off
people who support Democratic candidates, there's no doubt about that,
but they've never bought a TV station. They've never gobbled up radio
stations." <br />
Apparently the former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State
still does not understand that the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which
her husband signed into law, literally <i>prevented</i> Democrats from buying stations! Once those stations were sold, they were gone.<br />
She should also know that from 2005 to 2009, I made a documentary film, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1367010/"><i>Broadcast Blues</i></a>,
which revealed that the entire midsection of these United States was
then dominated by Right Wing rhetoric, by a factor of 10:1 Conservative
to Liberal. Today, according to Jen Senko's documentary <a href="https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/"><i>The Brainwashing of My Dad</i></a>, Right Wing radio dominates by a factor of 10: .2. (yes, ten to point two.) <br />
[<i><a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=11618">Brad Friedman's 2016 </a></i><a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=11618">BradCast<i> interview with Jen Senko is here</i></a>.]<br />
And <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/2/inside-the-beltway-nielsen-media-research-reality-/">Nielsen research is finally confirming</a>
that Right Wing Talk Radio is the dominant media source of our time.
How many people watch Fox News? 2.5 million in prime time.<br />
How many listen to Right Wing Talk Radio? <i>Talkers Magazine</i> says more than 80 <i>MILLION</i>. Every day. Roughly the same number of Trump supporters.<br />
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Radio Propagandists on hundreds of radio stations nationwide tell 80
million people every day that Trump is a hero, that he does nothing
wrong, that he is a victim, that the Democrats simply lie about him.
Once upon a time, those stations would at least have been obligated to
provide those 80 million people with a different point of view and
revealed the countless lies told by this POTUS. But, for a generation,
Democrats have refused to stand up for facts and truth.<br />
Now the nation has suffered through another impeachment, one which
has divided us in a way not seen since the Civil War. The division is
driven by half-truths, lies and confusion intentionally broadcast over
our airwaves with an intent to deceive for political gain. The deception
worked, just as planned, and the radio deceiver-in-chief was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-plans-to-award-presidential-medal-of-freedom-to-rush-limbaugh/2020/02/04/2d8f6a76-47a7-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html">just awarded</a> the Medal of Freedom.<br />
But do not blame Donald Trump; he is merely the beneficiary of a
corrosive law the Democrats have willfully ignored. When will they
acknowledge the real elephant in the room is not the GOP? It is a
Democratic Party which unwittingly aided and abetted the propaganda
machine, then turned blind eyes and closed ears to a medium that is
destroying us from within. Open your eyes and especially your ears,
Democrats, and take action now. Our Democracy is literally at stake. <br />
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Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-80310557194298761302020-04-04T11:57:00.002-07:002020-06-29T10:30:09.155-07:00Fakebook: Zuckerberg's Hands-Off Political Ad Policy Undermines American Democracy Itself<div style="text-align: right;">
October 25, 2019 </div>
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<a href="https://bradblog.com/?p=13175" target="_blank">originally posted on Bradblog.com </a></div>
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$10 billion should buy a lot of fact-checking on his social media
platform. Instead it empowers the fake news he claims to oppose...<br />
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There has been a battle between Elizabeth Warren v. Mark Zuckerberg
and Facebook since the social media giant started accepting incendiary
paid advertisements from President Donald Trump in which his campaigns
makes claims about former Vice President and Presidential candidate Joe
Biden that are, to put it mildly, less than true.
<br />
Recently, Warren, in a gutsy move, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-facebook/warren-campaign-challenges-facebook-ad-policy-with-false-zuckerberg-ad-idUSKBN1WR0NU">shot back with an ad</a>
that willfully lied about Zuck and Trump so she could make a valid
point about Facebook's recent policy of allowing candidates' ads to run
on Facebook without any vetting of facts.<br />
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What is really at issue is whether laws developed for local broadcast
licensees can --- or should --- apply to social media platforms and,
really, whether any outlets should be allowed to make billions of
dollars knowingly running ads that lie and purposely misinform the
public.<br />
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In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/posts/facebook-changed-their-ads-policy-to-allow-politicians-to-run-ads-with-known-lie/10156878067838687/">her ad</a>,
Warren first claims "Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have
endorsed Trump for re-election!" Then she writes, "you might be
thinking, how could this possibly be true? Well, it's not. (sorry.)"
Warren goes on to make the point that what the Facebook CEO is doing in
avoiding responsibility for all fact-checking on the massive social
media site is giving Trump permission to lie --- so long as he pays
Facebook "gobs of money" to spread those lies to voters. She draws a
distinction between the way TV networks and Facebook are handling the
ads: "If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad, most networks will refuse to air
it. But Facebook just cashes Trumps checks."<br />
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Facebook responded, ironically enough, in <a href="https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1183162508846215168">a tweet</a>...<br />
"Broadcast stations across the country have aired (the Trump) ad
nearly 1,000 times, as required by law. FCC doesn't want broadcast
companies censoring candidates' speech. We agree it's better to let
voters --- not companies --- decide," they said.<br />
<br />
The law Facebook references, the Communications Act, was developed in
1927 and 1934, and was intended to "serve the public interest." It
states that local broadcasters (think: your favorite radio or news and
weather NBC or FOX or CBS TV affiliate stations) must air any ad a
Federal Candidate gives them, just as provided, without being allowed to
vet for facts. Since the Act's early 19th century inception, the law
was extended to local candidate ads running on cable and satellite TV.
(National cable networks like CNN or FOX News are <a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/unpacking-the-political-ad-battle-between-elizabeth-warren-and-mark-zuckerberg/">not required</a> to air these candidate ads.)<br />
<br />
So Facebook is now using a law designed for small local broadcasters,
written in an era of honesty and integrity (at least as compared to our
current day), to justify their decision to alter their own policy which
forbids purposely misinformation, in order to allow completely false
political ads on the platform for an enormous profit. In an interview at
Georgetown University on October 17, <a href="https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/342166/facebook-wont-ban-political-ads-or-censor-politic.html">Zuckerberg claimed</a>
the policy of not fact-checking election ads is not pro-conservative,
but pro-challenger, whatever that means, adding: "I don't think it is
right for a private company to censor politicians."<br />
<br />
But doesn't that really mean that whoever has the most money to hire
the most effective ad agency to tell the most compelling lie will win
the day? <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-ad-spending-will-approach-10-billion-in-2020-new-forecast-predicts-11559642400">According to the <i>Wall Street Journal</i></a>,
spending on political ads will approach a gob-smacking $10 billion
during the 2020 election. Think about: 10 billion dollars, targeted at <i>deceiving</i> the American public about the most important issues of our time.<br />
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In this new digital era of fake news and noise, real facts need to be
easier, not more difficult, for We the People to obtain. We need <a href="https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2018/Facebook-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2017-Results/default.aspx">$40 billion scandal-plagued companies</a> like Facebook, which have <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/120114/how-does-facebook-fb-make-money.asp">sold our data without our permission</a>, to be <i>more</i> accountable to the public and its interests, not less.<br />
We need an industry which stands to take in some $10 Billion during a
single election cycle on paid ads alone, to start checking ads for the
facts. It is difficult work for professionals --- though billions in ad
revenues ought to make it much easier --- while virtually impossible for
the unsuspecting viewers of those ads. The first step will be for media
companies to require candidates to provide sources to back up their
claims; the second to hire displaced journalists (and there are many of
them right now, given Facebook-aided gutting of the journalism industry)
to review those sources for the truth.<br />
<br />
These standards should extend to local broadcasters as well. Why
have a law telling local broadcasters (which make most of their profits
from political ads) they may not vet any ads for facts? Why not put
broadcasters on the side of the public (as they are required under their
licenses to be) and say all political ads will be checked for facts, or
they won't be run for profits. We the People deserve the truth; our
very democracy now hinges on it.<br />
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Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-8517438186069679802019-05-22T12:17:00.000-07:002020-06-29T11:34:24.034-07:00Book Review: Reality (TM) 2048 by Derek Cressman<div style="text-align: right;">
May 22, 2019</div>
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Note: I rarely write book reviews, but activist writer Derek Cressman has written a novel which so speaks to me as it portrays a future born of today's media manipulations. Find it at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QL3T7V4" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. </div>
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Derek Cressman’s REALITY <span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">™</span> 2048 is a modern day horror tale disguised as a
futuristic thriller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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Cressman’s novel is written in the same vein as George
Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty Four, but by the time the calendar turned
to 1984, little of what Orwell predicted actually existed. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>REALITY <span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">™</span> 2048, on the other hand, offers an entirely
realistic dystopian future which projects just past modern day headlines to a
society brainwashed by corporate/ government propaganda which has traded
security for freedom. It chillingly takes us into post-nuclear Los Angeles, but
is at core an indictment of modern day media manipulation and indoctrination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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Vera works for Globalia’s Department of Information as a
researcher tasked with condensing complex history lessons into 20 words or
less; accuracy is demanded, but she finds truth is often lost. As a member of
the Establishment, her brain has been chipped with MyndScreen virtual reality
and apps with familiar names like Noodle and Chatter. She has rare intellectual
curiosity, but is aware her mind is constantly data mined and if she delves too
deeply into truths, she will leave metadata tracks to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If caught, they will upgrade her brain chip, and
34 year old Vera will retire well cared for in a home but brainfed a 24-7 diet
of Gladiators or Big Mother reality shows, unable to turn off the channel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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Still, in a world that tells her “Advertising Frees Speech,”
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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The Sisterhood teaches them the ignored history of nuclear
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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Especially when Reality is trademarked. </div>
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Derek Cressman’s REALITY <span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">™</span> 2048 is a novel of great consequence, one from which
I will not easily escape.</div>
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Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-16082658197638034572018-12-14T10:49:00.003-08:002020-06-29T11:35:47.062-07:00Unfortunately, Alex Jones, Sandy Hook Did Happen #StopTheHoax<div style="text-align: right;">
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December 14, 2018</div>
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Last July, after Facebook and Twitter and You Tube banned radio host and performance artist Alex Jones from their platforms, I did a little digging, and found that his program and all his affiliate stations are breaking a longstanding Federal Communications Commission rule prohibiting hoaxes. And what Jones has been doing goes way beyond the original 1938 Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds, which prompted passage of the rule in the first place.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The nationally syndicated radio host is currently
being sued in Connecticut and Texas by at least eight families who have faced
the unthinkable: losing their children in a school shooting. The Sandy Hook
school shooting. The school shooting Alex Jones broadcast never happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://firstamendmentwatch.org/infowars-alex-jones-face-defamation-suits-sandy-hook-parents/" target="_blank">Court filings</a> document the Alex Jones broadcast saying:
“Children did not die, teachers did not die on December 14, 2012.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“How do you even convince the public
something's a total hoax?... The general public doesn't … know they had the
kids going in circles in and out of the building as a photo-op” “… Sandy Hook
is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured.” Referring
to video of the parents of children killed in the shooting, Jones stated that
"they ... bring in actors to break down and cry.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Once Jones planted that seed, people began to attack the real grieving parents of
small children. Among them, the parents of slain six year old Noah Pozner
received death threats, had to relocate seven times, and now live too far to even
visit their son’s gravesite. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sometimes
I lie awake at night worrying that despite our efforts at security, a
determined conspiracy fanatic might gain entry to our home,” said Noah’s
mother, in <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-lawyer-sandy-hook-parents-addresses_us_5b6b036be4b0b15abaa940a3" target="_blank">reports of her court declaration</a>. Declared her husband, “Due to Mr.
Jones’ broadcast, I have also suffered severe emotional distress and trauma
which I cannot even begin to adequately describe. No human being should ever be
asked to suffer through the torment Mr. Jones carried out.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) Did his affiliate stations know that what Jones' said about the Sandy Hook school shooting being faked was false? Of course. (2) Did they know those lies could cause substantial public harm? Yes, because he had caused substantial harm before with his hoaxes. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After Jones falsely broadcast in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring out of a Washington, D.C. pizza place, one
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Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-86919466961420741722018-02-20T09:42:00.000-08:002020-06-29T11:37:16.608-07:00Fake news is only the beginning. The FCC is about to let monopolies decide what local news you see<div style="text-align: right;">
<a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article183218161.html" target="_blank">originally published in the Sacramento Bee November 7, 2017</a></div>
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What would happen if the politician you love to hate were indicted,
but your local news didn’t report it? No newspaper stories, no TV news,
no radio news on the hour, nothing.<br />
. <br />
Couldn’t happen? Think again.<br />
. <br />
The Republican-controlled <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/fcc-s-pai-sets-nov-16-vote-on-lifting-media-ownership-limits" target="_blank" title="">Federal Communications Commission will vote Nov. 16 </a>to
allow just one corporation to own the local newspaper plus nearly every
commercial TV station in your town. Nifty way to reduce down to just
one newsroom then dictate whatever information that corporation does –
and does not – want you to know in this democracy.<br />
.<br />
It’s exactly what’s happened with radio. Back in the day when lots of
companies owned 40 radio stations, the broadcast industry made big
promises that local information would be much more diverse if they could
simply own many more stations. The 1996 Telecommunications Act resulted
in a handful of corporations owning thousands of stations – and force
feeding conservative programming down our country’s throats ever since,
no debate, no opposing opinions allowed.<br />
. <br />
<a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/search?q=scott+walker" target="_blank" title="">The Media Action Center </a>showed
during the Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin that “conservative” radio
giants there gave millions of dollars in free airtime to the GOP
candidate – while refusing to allow a single Democrat on the air at all.
GOP operatives there still gloat about radio winning elections for
them. After 21 years of this kind of divisive public policy, 60 million
people listen to conservative radio... about the same number that voted
for Donald Trump.<br />
.<br />
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Now the FCC is quietly trying to
do the same thing to our local TV stations. In 2003, when they just
tried to allow TV stations to own newspapers, 3 million people rose up
and said “No!” Now they want to allow the newspapers plus all the TV
stations in one town to have the same owner, and they’re not even asking
for public comment.<br />
. <br />
Meanwhile, FCC Commissioners are in a PR frenzy to have us believe TV is dying. <a href="https://twitter.com/ajitpaifcc/status/923997283733200896" target="_blank" title="">Chair Ajit V. Pai tweeted </a>“Among Americans aged 18-29, online streaming is primary means of watching TV.” <br />
<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2017/10/20/thoughtfully-modernizing-commissions-media-ownership-rules" target="_blank" title="">Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, citing Pew Research, writes</a>:
“By 2016, only 46 percent of respondents viewed broadcast TV as a
source of news and 38 percent ‘got news yesterday’ from an online
source,” then talks about people getting news from Google and Facebook.<br />
. <br />
But what matters is not whether
we stream on a device or watch on a big screen. What matters is the
integrity and diversity of our information.<br />
. <br />
Google and Facebook don’t produce
news or hire reporters to ferret out what’s going on at City Hall or
the state Capitol or White House. That’s the terrain of newspapers and
TV broadcasters. <br />
Independent online news organizations are growing, but their influence is negligible: According to <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/07/americans-online-news-use-vs-tv-news-use/" target="_blank" title="">August 2017 Pew studies</a>,
about 52 million people watch local TV news, compared to about 23
million who access digitally produced news, but those 23 million people
may visit the online news sites just once a month – for an average of
just 2.4 minutes. The FCC’s argument doesn’t hold up.<br />
. <br />
So why does the broadcast
industry want the FCC to consolidate to such an alarming degree? It’s
not money. Fortune Magazine cites record industry profits, with <a href="http://www.biakelsey.com/biakelsey-reports-local-television-station-revenue-reached-28-4-b-2016-retransmission-fees-air-digital-revenues-contribute-strong-year/" target="_blank" title="">BIA/Kelsey reporting </a>that
local television station revenue reached $28.4 billion in 2016. They’re
rolling in the dough, so why the sudden push to change things?<br />
. <br />
We know why. We know why Sinclair Broadcasting, renowned for its alt-right editorializing over our public airwaves, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/06/trump-fcc-sinclair-broadcast-expansion-241337" target="_blank" title="">wants to reach 72 percent of U.S. homes </a>with
its propaganda. We know this White House’s agenda. We know what happens
when we allow just a few companies to control everything we read, see
and hear. We know.<br />
. <br />
Media reform group Free Press
President Craig Aaron says if the FCC doesn’t abandon this plan,
“they’ll find themselves back in court for failing to study the issue,
take public input, and address the fact that so few stations are owned
by women and people of color. We’ve won this fight before, and we can
prevail again.”<br />
. <br />
They won this fight before because 3 million Americans stood up for free speech.<br />
. <br />
Stand up. You can <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank" title="">email</a> the FCC, <a href="https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/" target="_blank" title="">call your representatives in Congress </a>and <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/consol_pai_ownership/" target="_blank" title="">support Free Press’ legal case</a>. Find links at <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank" title="">MediaActionCenter.net</a>.<br />
. <br />
This is a watershed moment. Ten
years from now, people could look at their local news reporting and
wonder how it ever went so wrong. You’ve heard of fake news? You ain’t
seen nothing yet.<br />
. <br />
<span class="ng_tagline_contrib">Sue
Wilson is the Emmy-winning director of the documentary “Broadcast
Blues,” editor of SueWilsonReports.com and founder of the Media Action
Center.</span>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-41018259111256719612018-02-20T09:40:00.000-08:002020-06-29T11:38:29.681-07:00Media Action Center WIns $13.5 Million Victory Over Entercom<div style="text-align: right;">
April 10, 2017</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
Originally published at <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=12093" target="_blank">BradBlog.com</a></div>
<br />
Over the weekend, Dan Morain, editorial page editor at <i>Sacramento Bee</i>, wrote an article about what I've been working on, and writing about <a href="http://bradblog.com/?author=114">here at The BRAD BLOG</a> and elsewhere, for many years now.<br />
. <br />
<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/article141982244.html#storylink=cpy">Morain's article</a> starts this way:<br />
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From her home outside the no-stoplight settlement of
Fiddletown, Sue Wilson tilted at a corporate windmill, and a funny thing
happened.</div>
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. <br />
Sue from Fiddletown won, on our behalf. You can hear the sound of
that victory at the end of the FM radio dial in Sacramento. Where there
once was commercial pop music, hooting deejays and stupid radio stunts, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article137269508.html">there’s static</a>.<br />
. <br />
"We the People own the air waves," she said, and repeats: "We the People."</div>
It's a very nice article, that begins with a tragic story. That
story, however, now has at least a somewhat encouraging ending for, yes,
We the People.<br />
. <br />
Here's what happened...<br />
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Ten years ago, a Sacramento mother of three died at the hands of an
out of control radio station seeking to boost ratings and profits. Her
family's attorney, Roger Dreyer, wrote to the Federal Communications
Commission asking that the broadcast license of Entercom Sacramento's
KDND 107.9 "The End", be revoked due to their <a href="https://youtu.be/ioKDf-JvKDo">tragic stunt</a>, a live, on air, "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest.<br />
. <br />
In 2009, upon winning a civil trial and a $16 million award against the station, Dreyer dropped that request.<br />
. <br />
As a former broadcaster turned Public Interest advocate, I believed
the FCC, which hasn't actually revoked a broadcasters' license in
anyone's memory, needed to make a statement to the radio industry.
Because the airwaves belong to the public, and since radio spectrums are
so scarce (there are only so many frequencies in any one geographic
area, therefore competition is extremely limited), broadcasters make a
deal with We the People: they may operate only if they "serve the public
interest."<br />
. <br />
Having <a href="http://www.suewilsonreports.com/">covered the trial</a>,
I learned that KDND lured listeners into a contest the station knew was
deadly, then obfuscated that threat, then made fun of contestants as
they became violently ill, then abandoned Jennifer Strange after she
cried for help. Then, upon learning Mrs. Strange had died, chose to call
attorneys rather than other contestants who may have needed medical
attention.<br />
Was that "serving the public interest"? Clearly not. The DMV takes
drivers' licenses for reckless driving; if ever there was a case for
denying a broadcaster's license, this was it. Otherwise, why have
licensing or a process for revoking it at all?<br />
<br />
. <br />
Licenses to operate Radio stations come up for renewal just once
every eight years; the FCC does not act on Petitions to Deny the renewal
of such licenses until the end of the license period, which, in this
case, was 2013. For 4 years after the trial, I sought assistance from
national media reform organizations and public interest FCC attorneys
nationwide. Common Cause and the local Sacramento Media Group helped;
Roger Smith filed an informal objection to the license renewal. The
others wished me luck, but would not assist, saying I was on a Quixotic
endeavor I was certain to lose.<br />
. <br />
So using my own <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/">Media Action Center</a> moniker, I wrote the 21-page <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/181479011/KDND-Petition-to-Deny">legal Petition</a>
myself. (This was not a signature gathering petition, but rather a
detailed legal brief with dozens of pages of evidence.) I tried to
convince contestants to put their names on it; some agreed, but backed
out because it was just too traumatic. In theory, I had legal standing
myself, as a resident of KDND's license area and a listener. So with
Washington DC attorney Art Belendiuck's review, I filed the Petition to
Deny KDND's license on the last day allowable, October 31, 2013.<br />
. <br />
I thought that was the end of it; I planned to give it some time, prod the FCC, then write a snarky article for <a href="http://bradblog.com/">The BRAD BLOG</a>, pointing out how ineffective the FCC really is, as I have so many times before.<br />
. <br />
But the FCC surprised me.<br />
. <br />
On October 26 last year, I received a call from Belendiuck, advising
me the FCC had taken my case and was bringing Entercom to trial to
defend its license. The scathing 36-page <a href="http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db1027/FCC-16-153A1.pdf">Hearing Designation Order [PDF]</a>
stated the burden of proof would fall on Entercom. It would be up to
them to demonstrate why they should be allowed to keep their license to
broadcast over 107.9 in Sacramento.<br />
Belendiuck couldn't take the case personally, so again I reached out
to D.C. public interest attorneys. Again, although this was now a real
case, the likes of which had not been seen in 40 years, none would take
it on. Entercom had amassed a team of six lawyers when, much to my
relief, Bay Area attorney Michael Couzens stepped up, and together we
filed <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=16-357&sort=date_disseminated">motion after motion</a>, preparing to take it all the way to the Supreme Court.<br />
. <br />
Then, on February 2, Entercom <a href="http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n33808">announced</a>
its merger with another broadcast behemoth, CBS Radio. How, I wondered,
would Entercom get approval for the merger from the FCC at the same
time they would be fighting my case at the same agency? The answer came
the next day: Entercom announced it was <a href="https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/162357/entercom-surrenders-license-of-kdnd-sacramento-mov">"surrendering"</a> the $13.5 million license of KDND, couching it as normal business practice. It was anything but.<br />
. <br />
Now, when people go to 107.9, all they hear is static. "The End"
programming moved over to another Entercom-owned frequency, 106.5,
replacing the lower rated rock programming once found on KUDL.<br />
. <br />
Many will ask what has been gained from this exercise. It's certainly
not money. The FCC will not allow Petitioners (me, in this case) any
financial incentive; the purpose of such a petition must be to act in
the public interest. I recently reached a settlement agreement with
Entercom to recoup my expenses, but I will not be compensated for the
hundreds of hours of my time.<br />
. <br />
Although the case never went to trial, the judge, in approving the
settlement, wrote, "Entercom has avoided the Commission hearing process
by surrendering its license for KDND(FM). … Finally, <b>Entercom has
willingly accepted the severest penalty of a renewal case by
surrendering forever its license to operate KDND(FM), Sacramento,
California</b>."<br />
. <br />
In dollars, aside from the judgement owed to Jennifer Strange's
family, which Entercom's insurance company paid, the cost of giving up
KDND's frequency, according to the company, was $13.5 million. That was
the estimated value of that very popular station. And, although they
placed their programming on another station, they have lost the right to
program on a 50,000 watt powerhouse of a frequency and listeners must
surf around to find the programming they once heard on 107.9. They also
completely lost the revenue from the 106.5 station they once programmed.
It's not chump change.<br />
. <br />
The big takeaway, though, is that there is finally a clear message
from the FCC to the broadcast industry that indeed, there is a public
interest obligation in broadcasting over our public airwaves, something
that "conservatives" have long argued does not exist. It is interesting
to note that all five FCC commissioners gave their stamp of approval to
having this case heard. (I'm told there is almost always a partisan
split. But not this time.) The mere fact that this was headed to trial
at all is --- or should be --- a wakeup call for the radio industry. I'm
told it has been 40 years since the FCC called a hearing (trial) on a
license renewal like this. The hearing designation <a href="http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db1027/FCC-16-153A1.pdf">order [PDF]</a>
itself is a scathing indictment of Entercom. Over and over again, it
cites Entercom's failure to serve the public interest, words we have not
heard in a long time, words which are treated like "indecency": I don't
know how to define it, but I know it when I see it.<br />
. <br />
Industry media <a href="http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-turns-in-kdnd-license-the-end-gets-new-fm/article_b3a8c6b6-ec2e-11e6-9452-5f9139963cab.html">covered</a> this process <a href="http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-to-settle-with-mac-over-sacramento-stations/article_c0ba0a98-0242-11e7-8fc9-3f0ffa19c95a.html">extensively</a>, so there is no question that radio operators throughout the US finally understand that their licenses to use <i>our</i> public airwaves must not be taken for granted, and can be taken away if they do not serve the public interest.<br />
. <br />
Unfortunately, the FCC order does not discuss the character of the Entercom corporation, which we had <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/p/blog-page_760.html">included</a>
in the original Petition to Deny. That's a big deal because, if
Entercom does not have the character to run one station, they don't have
the character to run any. Our motion to expand the license challenge
into issues of character is one reason the company settled. Another is
that Entercom would be fighting me in a trial at the FCC at the same
time they would be trying to get the FCC to approve their merger with
CBS.<br />
. <br />
The bad news is that, in exchange for settling the case (so I could
pay my attorney) I am unable to go up against the still-pending CBS
Radio merger, "directly or indirectly." Somebody should, but I don't
think anyone will. Everyone advised me that I wouldn't win anyway, but
they said that about the J. Strange case also.<br />
. <br />
The good news is that a 50,000 watt frequency will be coming to
auction, and I want to put together a group to buy it and do real radio
in this state capital of California. It will be a rare opportunity to
score a huge radio station that <i>won't</i> be programmed by and for the corporate media giants.<br />
. <br />
I have asked many times over the years --- in my documentary film <a href="http://bit.ly/BroadcastBluesMovie"><i>Broadcast Blues</i></a> and in my <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=8050">volumes of writing</a>
on this topic --- "Can a radio station actually kill a woman and retain
its license to broadcast?" Thankfully, the answer is no, it cannot.Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-38286009804421644122018-02-20T09:39:00.002-08:002018-02-20T09:39:09.078-08:00New FCC Will Determine Your Internet Speed<div style="text-align: right;">
August, 2017 </div>
This
article is still accessible online at the Sacramento Bee, but in case
it disappears, read below what is at stake when we talk about "Net
Neutrality." With President Trump leading the way, the <a href="https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-60A1.pdf" target="_blank">government may well allow corporations to throttle free speech on the internet</a> just as they have on our publicly owned radio airwaves. <br />
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Takeaway: Net neutrality means keeping the Internet as it has been since its inception. You may <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/how-to-comment-on-the-fccs-proposal-to-revoke-net-neutrality/" target="_blank">make a comment at the FCC</a> until August 30, 2017.<br />
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UPCOMING FCC DECISION WILL DETERMINE YOUR INTERNET SPEED</div>
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You’re enjoying your weekend java, wanting to learn what
happened at last week’s school board meeting. Your local newspaper
doesn’t cover that beat, but a local blogger does a good job, so you try
to pull his site up on your laptop. Meanwhile, your 5-year-old opens up
“Sesame Street” on her iPad, and on his, your teenage son is bringing
up “Spider-Man” on Netflix. You instantly hear the sounds of
“Spider-Man,” but your daughter is getting impatient, as her show hasn’t
yet appeared. In another minute, the “Sesame Street” theme song finally
plays, but your school board blog still isn’t up. You get another cup
of coffee and wait. And wait. And wait. Finally, the site fills your
screen.<br />
. <br />
This is what the Internet will look like if the
Federal Communications Commission does not pass strict “Net neutrality”
rules. While opponents have painted Net neutrality as government
takeover of the Internet, it is actually meant to prevent a corporate
takeover of free speech on the Web. Net neutrality means keeping the
Internet as it has been since its inception, with users paying their
Internet service provider a fee to access the Internet, and then freely
choosing what to watch, hear, read or post – with no outside
interference. Proponents include Google, Microsoft, AOL, Mozilla, eBay
and thousands of small businesses. There is very little opposition to
Net neutrality – except from the giant Internet service providers
themselves.<br />
. <br />
Verizon, ATT, Comcast and Time Warner Cable
are among the chief opponents of the current model. They are now the
largest Internet service providers and have devised a more profitable
model (for themselves) called “paid prioritization.” They want to charge
higher fees to content providers (writers, moviemakers, application
developers) who have the means to pay. Those providers who cannot pay
more will suffer slower speeds.<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a>. <br />
The FCC passed a set of
Net neutrality rules, called the 2010 Open Internet Order, trying to bar
Internet service providers from blocking content or slowing purchases
from retailers, but likely allowing paid prioritization. Verizon
promptly sued the FCC, with the circular free speech argument that, as
an Internet service provider, it has the editorial right to choose which
services it wants to provide, and that right should be protected under
the First Amendment.<br />
. <br />
Verizon won, but not on the First
Amendment argument. The D.C Circuit Court of Appeals found the FCC could
impose such rules but had adopted the wrong legal framework to do so.
Prior to the Open Internet Order, the FCC classified broadband as an
“information service” under Title I of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
But the court found the FCC was imposing regulations on the Internet
service providers allowed only under Title II. Were broadband classified
as a “telecommunications service,” the FCC could regulate Internet
service providers as a common carrier. The court essentially gave the
FCC a do-over.<br />
. <br />
Regulating broadband as a public utility
is the only path that will keep the Internet service providers at bay,
but the ISPs warn of years of litigation should the FCC take that route.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, former president of the National Cable TV
Association, says Title II is still on the table, but not even FCC
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, upon whom public interest advocates pin
their hopes, was willing to commit to that path at Rep. Doris Matsui’s
recent Net neutrality forum in Sacramento. <br />
Of the 3.7
million comments from the public, 99 percent favor Net neutrality. That
should count for something. Add a 3-2 Democratic voting advantage at the
FCC, and you’d think this is a slam dunk. <br />
Except that
FCC watchers like myself have seen this show before. In 2003, the FCC
ignored 3 million comments opposing cross-ownership of broadcast
stations and newspapers in the same town.<br />
.<br />
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered the agency to go back and listen to the public. So in
2007, the FCC again pretended to listen, then ignored the public again.
It’s what they do. <br />
Politically, Sen. Barbara Boxer
favors Title II, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein has yet to commit. Matsui is
leading the way with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., by introducing the
Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act to bar paid prioritization.
But getting such legislation into law is no small task. <br />
With
a 3-2 Democratic advantage at the FCC (Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel
also favors Net neutrality), the commissioners could easily pass tough
rules. But the agency historically is a victim of “regulatory capture.”
Instead of serving the public, the FCC serves the very corporations it
is supposed to be regulating. And with a former cable TV lobbyist
chairing the FCC, the future could look brighter.<br />
. <br />
The
California Public Utilities Commission could also have an impact, should
it endorse common carrier status for Net neutrality.<br />
. <br />
Calls to all of these players could make a difference in the future of the Internet forever.<br />
. <br />
Don’t let them give our open Internet away.<br />
. <br />
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Sue Wilson is the Emmy-winning director of the documentary “Broadcast Blues,” editor of <a href="http://www.suewilsonreports.com/" target="_blank" title="">SueWilsonReports.com</a> and founder of the <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank">Media Action Center.</a></div>
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January 28, 2017</div>
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Congratulations to <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/devil-s-advocates-buy-milwaukee-area-radio-station-set-to/article_d569c5a4-a061-522b-a0a2-22a8a69288f3.html" target="_blank">Devil's Advocate for getting on the air in Milwaukee</a>,
Wisconsin to counter the right-wing "alternate facts" out out on our
publicly owned airwaves every day! Now El Dorado Hills, CA has an
opportunity to get it's own low power FM station. Going back into the
archives, here is why it is important:</div>
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FEDERAL RULES GIVE CORPORATION BACKED CONSERVATIVE RADIO ALL THE LOCAL VOICES</div>
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originally published by the Sacramento Bee, May 11, 2008 </div>
. <br />
There's a mournful hush in Sacramento these days, the empty sound of an
entire political viewpoint quieted. More than 32,000 weekly listeners
who once tuned to KSAC (1240 AM) to hear partisan Democrats beat up on
President George W. Bush, now hear only Christian hip-hop.<br />
.<br />
There's
nothing wrong with Christian hip-hop; it's a great outlet for artists
breaking out of the gangsta rap mold. But there are six other commercial
radio stations licensed in the Sacramento area programming the
Christian message. In the political realm, three local radio stations
program 264 hours of partisan Republican radio talkers beating up on
Democrats every week. Now, zero stations program any Democratic view
whatsoever: 264-0.<br />
.<br />
This follows the national trend
revealed in the 2007 Free Press and Center for American Progress study,
"The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." Nationally, 90
percent of commercial talk radio is conservative; only 10 percent is
liberal. (This study does not include Public Radio, which by statute is
required to provide differing points of view. One is as likely to hear a
Republican's views as a Democrat's. And NPR hosts don't beat up on
anybody.)<br />
.<br />
KSAC shared another characteristic with
other liberal radio stations: It had a tiny, 1,000-watt transmitter.
Tough for a little station that barely reached Sacramento's suburbs to
compete with 50,000 watt giant KFBK, whose signal stretches from Chico
to Modesto, from Reno to that little town of San Francisco. Despite KFBK
reaching millions more potential listeners, KSAC mustered an audience
nearly 20 percent that of KFBK's. (Its ratings were double local
conservative station KTKZ, which has a 5,000-watt transmitter.) And
Arbitron showed the progressive station's audience was steadily growing.
KSAC was the little station that could.<br />
.<br />
Until it couldn't.<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a>.<br />
It wasn't that Talk City didn't have listeners, it's that it didn't have advertisers.<br />
.<br />
The
radio business model is simple: Start a show, grow an audience and
advertisers will follow. But that model doesn't work for progressive
talk radio.<br />
.<br />
Why would advertisers steer clear of
progressive talk? Chris Jones, managing editor of the blog "the Hot
Points," writes: "What respectable business is going to send millions of
dollars in ad revenue to people who bash the president, the country and
the war on a constant basis? Not only that, but liberals never miss an
opportunity to bash corporations as evil and crooked. Why the hell would
big business support the enemy?"<br />
.<br />
Well, wait a minute.
Plenty of advertisers supported radio shows that bashed then- President
Bill Clinton, calling his pursuit of Osama bin Laden "wagging the dog."
But this misses the real point: Why are corporate dollars the sole
arbiter of what information we the people get to hear on publicly owned
airwaves?<br />
.<br />
The answer is policy-makers, with campaigns
financed by those same corporations, changed two important rules. In
1987, then-President Reagan's FCC got rid of the Fairness Doctrine,
which required that radio and TV provide a "reasonable opportunity to
hear both sides of controversial issues." The Reagan administration
thought the marketplace would provide its own balance. <br />
Then, in
1996, Congress allowed a few companies to own unlimited numbers of radio
stations. Huge conglomerates bought the best and biggest stations, and
purchased multiple stations within the same market. Then they blanketed
more than 1,700 stations with conservative talk. Using their newly
created economies of scale, they offered businesses special packages to
advertise on stations they owned both locally and nationally.<br />
.<br />
That in turn starved independent stations of revenue. It was good business. <br />
But
it shouldn't be only about good business; it should also be about
public policy and the discourse demanded by Democracy, a discourse
protected well by the founders of broadcasting but ignored by recent
deregulation.<br />
.<br />
Broadcasters make a deal when they obtain –
for free – a license to broadcast in a community. In exchange for the
opportunity to make millions of dollars, the broadcasters must serve the
public interest – the public interest of all of the people, not just a
targeted slice of audience most likely to buy their product. It should
not be solely about corporations willing to shell out millions to market
their message and to keep business-friendly politicians in office. It
should also be about revealing the information that Enron, Bear Stearns,
Halliburton and other corporations would prefer to hide.<br />
.<br />
Critics
will argue that there is so much information available in these modern
times, people can easily find an opposing point of view to Rush
Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity, or Bill O'Reilly or the rest, somewhere other
than radio. But commuters who are stuck in traffic for hours every day
own these airwaves, too.<br />
.<br />
Why must they go online when they
get home just to hear the other side? Why should traveling salesman and
longhaul truckers, who can drive across several states without hearing
any progressive point of view, have to pay hundreds of dollars for
satellite radio to replace what they already own for free? Why should
rural communities, which depend first on AM radio for their information
and who are lucky to get low-speed Internet access, be deprived of any
political balance on their own airwaves?<br />
.<br />
We have allowed
policy-makers in this country to create a so-called marketplace to
promote one message almost exclusively over another. <br />
But there
really is no marketplace at all. Anybody can start a new coffee shop
across from Starbucks and compete for business. But almost nobody can
just start a new radio station to compete for listeners; the airwaves
are limited, and the frequencies are already taken – mostly by big
corporations. <br />
Considering a 2003 Gallup poll showing that 22
percent of Americans get their information from talk radio, we're not
just talking about what is fair play; we are talking about a threat to
the democracy we hold dear.<br />
.<br />
What to do? The FCC (five
commissioners, appointed by the president) could bring back the Fairness
Doctrine. But Republicans in Congress, such as Indiana Rep. Mike Pence,
are fighting tooth and nail to prevent its return. And even groups who
favor media reform, like Free Press, believe restoration of the Fairness
Doctrine would face First Amendment challenges. But as a producer who
actually worked under the Fairness Doctrine, I personally don't see
what's wrong with proving to the community that I at least attempted to
provide both sides of the story.<br />
.<br />
Repealing radio-ownership
rules put in place by the 1996 Telecommunications Act is another
possibility; restoring ownership caps to their 1995 levels – allowing
one company to own a maximum of 40 stations nationwide – would put many
more microphones in the hands of independents. Whether the advertisers
would support speech anathema to their ideology, even on independent
stations, remains to be seen.<br />
.<br />
One thing is certain: It is
time to act. Progressive talk radio has been taken off the air in
Boston; Fresno; San Diego; Madison, Wis.; Eugene, Ore.; Austin, Texas;
New Haven, Conn.; Columbus, Ohio and other markets all across the
country since the 2006 election, often replaced with formats that get
lower ratings. But in Madison and Columbus, people rose together and
protested and brought progressive radio back to their communities.<br />
.<br />
It
is time for all of us to take their lead, to remember that we the
people own these frequencies, and to compel our representatives to put
the public back into the public airwaves. Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-45452847858206060512018-02-20T09:36:00.000-08:002018-02-20T09:36:26.428-08:00Bill Maher: Here's the Fix for Fact Free Media<div style="text-align: right;">
November 8, 2016</div>
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I’m a fan of <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":2,"plid":"http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher"}}" href="http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher" target="_blank">“Real Time with Bill Maher,”</a> but Friday night, for the umpteenth time, I wanted to reach right through the TV screen and shake somebody. </div>
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How the media is destroying our country is one of Bill Maher’s
favorite topics, and he’s right about it. But this time, it wasn’t just
Maher deriding the collapse of facts, it was everybody on the show:
funny man Martin Short, liberal Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Neo-conservative
writer David Frum, and even President Barack Obama: “How do we create a
common space where truth gets eyeballs… and we can create a common
conversation?” Yet not one of them had any clue about how we got to this
point or what to do next.<br />
. <br />
AAAUUUGGGHHHH! (beating head against wall…)<br />
.<br />
<br />
For twenty years I have been sounding the alarm that our very
democracy is at stake due to pro-fascist changes in broadcast media
policy. Changes in policy which made one-sided conversations the norm.
Changes in Law which allow a handful of corporations to control those
one-sided conversations. Changes which have allowed a determined faction
to replace fact with fiction. Changes which came about with the stroke
of a pen in 1987 and again in 1998, and now, on the eve of the Trump/
Clinton election, we’re all just waking up to it.<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a>. <br />
I began this journey in 1987 while working at Los Angeles’ KCBS-TV.
The Reagan led Federal Communications Commission (FCC,) claimed “the
marketplace would create fairness,” and <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":3,"plid":"http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-21/news/mn-8908_1_fairness-doctrine"}}" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-21/news/mn-8908_1_fairness-doctrine" target="_blank">threw out the “Fairness Doctrine,”</a> a policy which required broadcasters to offer opportunities for discussion on controversial issues.<br />
. <br />
Enter Rush Limbaugh, who spawned the one-sided political tirade
called Talk Radio; he bragged he did “the reading for you so you won’t
have to,” then spread lies about the content of the New York Times or
the Washington Post and other news sources. His twofold motives: to
disinform his Republican leaning crowd and to make it appear that
Democrats are the ones who refuse to engage in debate, while in fact,
they’ve been entirely shut out. (He still does. <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":4,"plid":"pearls_of_wisdom"}}" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/14/pearls_of_wisdom" target="_blank">A quote</a>
from October 14 of this year: “These people on the left are not
interested in debate; they’re not interested in being coequals in the
arena of ideas.”) <br />
.<br />
Fast forward to 2014: <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":5,"plid":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-wilson/fcc-no-more-equal-time-re_b_5332812.html"}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-wilson/fcc-no-more-equal-time-re_b_5332812.html" target="_blank">the FCC decided</a>
that because there is no longer a Fairness Doctrine, it is perfectly
legal for five local pro-GOP talk radio hosts to promote the candidacies
of Republicans Gov. Scott Walker and Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator
Ron Johnson, effectively giving them millions of dollars of free
airtime, while specifically not allowing a single Democrat like Russ
Feingold on the air – <i>our</i> publicly owned airwaves – <i>at all. </i>Absent
the Fairness Doctrine, the FCC says, stations have the Freedom of
Speech to say what they like. What will it take to once again provide
true discourse and facts? An Act of Congress.)<br />
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Fast forward to 1996, when Congress actually passed an Act of Congress (the 1996 Telecommunications Act) <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":6,"plid":"http://www.suewilsonreports.com/2011/10/why-occupy-wall-street-needs-to-occupy.html"}}" href="http://www.suewilsonreports.com/2011/10/why-occupy-wall-street-needs-to-occupy.html" target="_blank">which made things worse</a>:
it consolidated the weapon of disinformation into the hands of just a
few corporations. Rather than hundreds of individual radio owners
choosing who to program on their stations, the select few made Rush
Limbaugh radio’s star performer in the country’s midsection, buying up
all the radio towers so no other points of view could be heard. (There
is a reason the GOP party is sometimes called the Truck driver party.
You can drive coast to coast and never hear anything but lies
masquerading as truth; the red/blue state voting map proves the
dynamic.)<br />
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The Rushites even ran ads in Time Magazine and elsewhere, promoting him as <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":7,"plid":"america_s_real_anchorman"}}" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/09/10/america_s_real_anchorman" target="_blank">“America’s Anchorman,”</a>
willfully blurring the lines between political radio talkers and true
non-biased journalists. Dozens of hard right copycats proliferated, to
the point where <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":8,"plid":"https://www.scribd.com/document/68968005/Talk-Radio-Listeners-Liberal-v-Conservative-Charts"}}" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/68968005/Talk-Radio-Listeners-Liberal-v-Conservative-Charts" target="_blank">50 million people were listening to radio’s alternative “news”</a>, way more than watch Fox News, nearly as many that read newspapers.<br />
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By 1998, the entire political landscape morphed monstrously; the
newly formed pro-Republican alt-media literally aided and abetted Ken
Starr’s witch hunt of the President who balanced the budget and created
26 million new jobs, Bill Clinton. (Everybody knows Clinton was
impeached for lying about a consensual private affair with Monica
Lewinsky, but how many know that the Paula Jones case was deemed by a
judge to be a frivolous lawsuit, used by the politically motivated Starr
who illegally colluded with Jones’ attorneys and who relied on tapes
that a “friend” of Monica’s had secretly – and illegally – made, all to
frame the President by creating a crime where none existed? Nah, Rush
didn’t tell ya that, did he?)<br />
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So I moved into action and formed the early media reform group, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":9,"plid":"http://web.archive.org/web/20000517144302/http:/truthinamerica.org/"}}" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000517144302/http:/truthinamerica.org/" target="_blank">“The Truth in America Project.”</a> I stood with others <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":10,"plid":"https://www.c-span.org/video/?114178-1/clinton-investigation-rally"}}" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?114178-1/clinton-investigation-rally" target="_blank">on C-Span</a>,
from the White House’s Bob Weiner to a little group called “Censure and
Move On” on the Ellipse outside the White House to protest Starr.<br />
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<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":11,"plid":"http://web.archive.org/web/20010204194200/http:/truthinamerica.org/page16.html"}}" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010204194200/http:/truthinamerica.org/page16.html" target="_blank">My media plan at the time</a>: <br />
1) Restore the Fairness Doctrine<br />
2) Dismantle the Telecommunications
Act of 1996<br />
3) Eliminate all 30 second political advertising<br />
4)
Restructure ratings and commerce of newscasts </blockquote>
I next assimilated eleven years of research about the sins of the new alt-media into <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":12,"plid":"http://www.suewilsonreports.com/2010/06/what-happened-to-broadcast-blues.html"}}" href="http://www.suewilsonreports.com/2010/06/what-happened-to-broadcast-blues.html" target="_blank">Broadcast Blues</a>, my 2009 award-winning documentary film. (C’mon, Bill Maher, you showed me yours, let me show you mine!)<br />
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I traveled the nation to educate thousands about their rights as the owners of the public airwaves, and started the <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":13,"plid":"http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/"}}" href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank">Media Action Center</a>
to inspire people to take meaningful action against their local
broadcasters. We have established policy, spooked radio stations into
putting their public files online, and filed other actions currently
pending at the FCC. But without an actual Act of Congress, we have just
been chipping at the edges of the larger problem.<br />
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Bill and Hillary Clinton knew about this problem and this plan <i>eighteen years ago </i>but did nothing. President Obama wrote about a related issue, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":14,"plid":"http://bradblog.com/?p=8500"}}" href="http://bradblog.com/?p=8500" target="_blank">the need to clarify broadcasters’ public interest obligations</a>, on the White House Technology page in 2009, then quietly scrubbed the reference. Had <i>any</i>
Democrats acted on it instead of just hiding their heads in the sand
for twenty years, we would not be having this conversation today, and
our very culture would not have become unhinged. (For the more
psychological aspect of this, see my colleague Jen Senko’s documentary <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":15,"plid":"http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/"}}" href="http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/" target="_blank">The Brainwashing of My Dad</a>.)<br />
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But here we are, and the right-wing alt-media now has the entire
online space to spread its disinformation. The fix is not as easy as it
once could have been. But good old-fashioned broadcasting, the only
medium which can be regulated as it is owned by We the People, is a good
place to start. And as rumors about radio’s demise have been <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":16,"plid":"http://www.insideradio.com/inside-story-optimism-new-revenue-ideas-are-radio-show-takeaways/article_c1a2bc02-83b2-11e6-bb24-2fbe77f47f39.html"}}" href="http://www.insideradio.com/inside-story-optimism-new-revenue-ideas-are-radio-show-takeaways/article_c1a2bc02-83b2-11e6-bb24-2fbe77f47f39.html" target="_blank">greatly exaggerated,</a> it is the place to once again develop that common conversation we as a nation so deeply need. Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-84334607321533236012018-02-20T09:34:00.000-08:002018-02-20T09:34:31.767-08:00Brainwashing Trumps Reason<div style="text-align: right;">
March 17, 2016</div>
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“<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/donald-trump-fayetteville/473169/" target="_blank">I’d like to punch him in the face.</a>” Fighting words from presidential contender Donald Trump<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that foreboded real violence at Trump rallies, manifesting last Friday at the University of Illinois Chicago, and first in North Carolina, where Trump supporter John McGraw first sucker punched peaceful protestor Rakeen Jones in the face, then told a news reporter later, “<a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/03/13/donald-trump-despite-violence-there-have-been-no-injuries-our-rallies" target="_blank">Yes, he deserved it, the next time we see him, we might have to kill him.</a>” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“We don't condone violence,” Trump told Fox News’ about the incident, “but the kid did, from what I hear, stick up a certain finger right in everybody's face. And this man has had enough, because I'll tell you what, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">people in this country are very angry.</i>” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about Chicago? Did his incendiary language cause the clashes at the U of Illinois? "I don't think so," Trump argued. "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I represent a lot of people who have great anger."</i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i><br />
Anger? You bet there’s anger. But as revealed by Jen Senko’s new documentary “<a href="http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Brainwashing of My Dad</b></a>,” it is faux anger, caused by more than a generation of propaganda stemming from a coordinated far right takeover of media – and brains.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/109066326" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe><br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/109066326">THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user20159262">Jen Senko</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/109066326">THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user20159262">Jen Senko</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Those familiar with my work<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>know I’ve dealt with government policies which allow corporate media giants to take over our airwaves with lies painted as “news.” But in “Brainwashing,” Senko goes deeper into the historical underpinnings of far right media indoctrination and the virtual brainwashing of family members and society. Senko’s film shows over time how her open-minded Kennedy Democrat father transformed into a raging right-winger after excessive exposure to Talk Radio and Fox News. <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Says Senko, "What I mean by brainwashing is that people like my dad have become so taken over by right-wing media and its disinformation campaign, that they speak, vote and even act against their own interests - even against the very core of who they are.”</span><br />
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Dave Ninehauser, whose <a href="http://hearyourselfthink.org/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear YourselfThink Project</b></a> is featured in the film, says fear and anger are the neuronic drivers of the brainwashing phenomenon. “The indoctrination process works by pumping out scary stories disguised as news (for example: Obama wants to kill you with Ebola terrorists) which induce fear and anxiety, causing a feeling of loss of control. As the fear-mongering continues, fear and anxiety tip over into anger.”<br />
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Hmmn… scary stories disguised as news, like this 3-14-2016 story <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/03/14/make_no_mistake_leftists_are_to_blame_for_anarchy_at_trump_rallies" target="_blank">RushLimbaugh is pushing</a> in defense of Trump inciting violence at rallies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Limbaugh first sets up a clip of then Senator Obama on the campaign trail:<br />
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RUSH: “Let's go back September 17, 2008, in Elko, Nevada, during a campaign event, Senator Barack Obama running for president...”</div>
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OBAMA: “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to 'em whether they're independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with 'em and get in their face. … You are my ambassadors, you are the ones who must make the case." </div>
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Limbaugh then opines on the event.<br />
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RUSH: So it's Obama. "Get in their face. They bring a knife, you bring a gun. Get in their face. I want you to argue with them." Look, folks, Donald Trump supporters are not leaving Trump events and going to Hillary events or going to Bernie Sanders events and beating people upside the head.</div>
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Whoa, Obama said “They bring a knife, you bring a gun?” Even I am getting scared now… but wait, give a listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Obama didn’t say that, Limbaugh just said that he said it. But no matter, the lie is now implanted in his <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/43684347/Talk-Radio-Listeners-Liberal-v-Conserv" target="_blank">15 million listeners' brains</a>. The fear leads to rage, which then actually causes our critical thinking to shut down. (Psychologist Daniel Goleman coined the term “<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/51483/handling-the-hijack.pdf" target="_blank">Amygdala Hijack</a>” for the affected group of neurons inside the brain’s Limbic system.)<br />
<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/51483/handling-the-hijack.pdf">.</a> <br />
Ninehauser takes it further: “With loss of critical thinking comes a high susceptibility to ideological indoctrination as one is willing to credulously accept a narrative which makes sense of a scary situation and returns a sense of control. Importantly, this ideological narrative provides a tribal identity while cementing allegiance to the propagandist as the only trusted source of (mis) information.”<br />
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Hmnn… cementing allegiance to the propagandist? Like <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/43684347/Talk-Radio-Listeners-Liberal-v-Conserv" target="_blank">50 million avowed listeners of Right Wing Propaganda radio</a> who believe every word fed to them, whether it makes sense or not? Like Trump making his supporters raise their right arms and “pledge” to vote for him in what looks like a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLmh8ck0yk" target="_blank">Heil, Hitler”salute</a>?<br />
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Then Ninehauser says the process repeats itself over and over again, becoming “further ingrained with the next round of scare-mongering and sensationalized story telling.”<br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hmmn… Like Sean Hannity talking to Donald Trump about what he says is a lack of violence at his rallies:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “</b>Well, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssQSWwUFY0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">I don’t see any violence at Trump rallies</a>. I’ve been watching and flipping the dial tonight. And somehow people are trying to flip this on you.” No violence? <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/43684347/Talk-Radio-Listeners-Liberal-v-Conserv" target="_blank">Hannity’s 2.5 millionviewers on Fox News and 14 million listeners on talk radio</a> believe it, and then share the false information on social media and emails, creating its own echo chamber. </div>
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The beat goes on. And on. And on.<br />
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The millions of us who can no longer have a discussion at the dinner table without erupting into a battle knowingly nod at Senko’s title, “The Brainwashing of My Dad.” Yet for all its revelations, it is a light hearted film about a real family, one that at the end makes us want to stop fighting and give each other a good hug instead. Senko: “<span lang="EN" style="color: #313131; font-family: "times" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It is my hope that by lifting the curtain on what the right-wing media is doing to the very fabric of our country, by shedding light on both its tactics and agenda, families and the nation can begin to heal."</span></div>
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It is must see for this political season, and premieres Friday March 18 for a one week run in Los Angeles’ Laemmle Music Hall <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/films/index/40276/2016-03-18?modal=&replace=#get-tickets">http://www.laemmle.com/films/index/40276/2016-03-18?modal=&replace=#get-tickets</a> (Producer Matthew Modine will be on hand Friday and joined by Jen Senko Saturday for the 7:10 screenings,) and New York’s Cinema Village theaters, <a href="http://27.formovietickets.com:2235/T.ASP?WCI=BT&Page=schedule&SelectedDate=20160318">http://27.formovietickets.com:2235/T.ASP?WCI=BT&Page=schedule&SelectedDate=20160318</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Senko will answer questions after the Friday 7 PM screening.) Theaters nationwide are booking the film due to popular demand, and it is available via Video on Demand March 18.<br />
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<a href="http://opednews.com/articles/Brainwashing-Trumps-Reason-by-Sue-Wilson-Anger_Brain_Brainwashing_Brainwashing-160317-628.html" target="_blank"><i>Originally posted in L.A. Progressive</i></a> Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-9712665253259574252018-02-20T09:30:00.004-08:002018-02-20T09:30:59.550-08:00Trump and Cruz: Will Somebody Sue Already?<div style="text-align: right;">
February 29, 2016</div>
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originally posted at<a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11593" target="_blank"> BradBlog.com</a></div>
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One of them could do us all a great favor by holding broadcasters accountable in a way that We the People cannot...</div>
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Republican Presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are at
war over what they charge to be false political ads against each other.
It's one battle in this bizarre and contentious campaign year which
could actually benefit us all.</div>
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The Cruz campaign has been running a series of attack ads about Trump's position on abortion, which <a href="http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2016/jan/26/ted-cruz-ad-abortion-donald-trump-saying-how-stupi/">Politifact reviewed</a>
and described as "flawed." In response to what he calls Cruz' "lying
ads", Trump has threatened to file a suit charging that Cruz, who was
born in Canada, may not be eligible for the Presidency.<br />
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Meanwhile, a SuperPAC called the <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2014/03/american-future-fund-3/">American Future Fund</a> ran an attack ad against Cruz calling him "weak" on defense, which the group <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/ad-attacks-cruz-as-weak-on-defense/">Fact Check reviewed</a> and found to be "misleading." Cruz' response was to have his attorneys write a <a href="https://www.tedcruz.org/news/cruz-requests-false-attack-ad-be-pulled-off-the-air/">sternly worded letter</a> to the TV stations running the ad against him, demanding they pull it, citing FCC public interest obligations and more.<br />
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"Because this advertisement makes a flatly false factual claim for
which your station is ultimately liable," the Cruz attorneys wrote, "we
strongly urge you to exercise your discretion as a licensee to refuse to
continue to broadcast this advertisement, and, because it is already
airing, immediately pull the advertisement from your rotation."<br />
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In this case, the Cruz attorneys are right, at least in regard to the legal issues at stake...<br />
Why is Cruz going after the TV stations, but Trump is going after
Cruz personally? Trump can't sue Cruz over a "lying" campaign ad,
because there's no law against candidates lying on air. Therefore, he's
threatening litigation on the separate issue of Cruz' birthplace.
(Whether we like it or not, any Federal candidate who runs their own "I
approve this message" ad on TV or radio is free to lie to the public as
much as he or she likes. Broadcasters are legally <i>not allowed</i> to vet candidates' ads for fictitious statements, and stations are <a href="http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2016/02/articles/ted-cruz-demands-takedown-of-pac-ad-attacking-his-voting-record-issues-that-broadcast-stations-need-to-consider-when-threatened-by-candidate-wanting-an-ad-pulled/?utm_source=David+Oxenford%2C+Esq+-+Broadcas"><i>required</i></a> to run those false ads over our public airwaves.)<br />
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<a name='more'></a>. <br />
This system works great, of course, for television stations, which are set to rake in an estimated <a href="http://mediasalestoday.com/2016-political-tv-ad-spending-to-reach-4-4-billion/">$4.4 billion</a>
in political ad sales in 2016. But it's terrible for We the People,
who, when making voting decisions, are clearly harmed by political ads
which are lying to us, as aired by broadcasters licensed to "serve the
public interest."<br />
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However, there's a <i>different rule</i> for radio and TV ads paid for by <i>third parties</i>,
such as the SuperPACS loathed by Trump and his potential Democratic
opponent Bernie Sanders. Broadcasters are not required to air third
party sponsored ads and, if they choose to do so, they <i>can be held liable</i> for airing falsehoods. Hence Cruz' legal letter/threat to television stations.<br />
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A similar tactic has been tried before. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24739333.html">filed libel lawsuits</a> against broadcasters for campaign ads which <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/congressman-jeff-denham-sues-tv-384084">he says</a> lie about him. <a href="http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2008/08/articles/independent-groups-start-running-presidential-attack-ads-what-are-the-legal-implications-for-broadcasters/">According to Broadcast Law Blog</a>,
in order to prevail, the candidate (or his/her attorney) must first
contact the TV or radio station to complain. The station must then fact
check the ad, and if determined to be untrue, must pull the ad or risk
being held liable for defamation --- just as Cruz' attorneys threatened.<br />
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You'd think broadcasters who make most of their giant profits from political ad sales, <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11030">especially in the wake of <i>Citizens United</i></a>
would be fact checking the ads they serve up to the public for the sake
of "serving the public interest." (According to public files posted at
the FCC, American Future Fund spent $148,453 to purchase airtime for
just that one allegedly misleading ad in the Charleston, SC television
market alone.)<br />
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How are We the People supposed to know which statements made in ads
that air over our publicly-owned airwaves are true or false? Shouldn't
political ad fact checking be part of the public interest obligations TV
and radio stations sign up for in exchange for their free licenses to
broadcast over our airwaves?<br />
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Apparently --- legally --- that is too much for We the People to ask.<br />
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I've been trying for years to find an attorney willing to sue
broadcasters over false third-party ads on behalf of the public, but
I've been told over and over again that We the People have no legal
standing to file such a lawsuit.<br />
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But Ted Cruz is making the case against lying ads, and in his way, so
is Donald Trump. They would both, presumably have the standing that We
the People, apparently, do not.<br />
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So sue, baby, sue! And let's hope all the candidates jump on the
bandwagon of holding broadcasters accountable to their public interest
obligations. Do it for all of us who are being lied to over airwaves
that we all own, but can't seem to do anything about!Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-44814278887506128942018-02-20T09:29:00.002-08:002018-02-20T09:29:20.627-08:00Rush Limbaugh Stepped Into It This Time<div style="text-align: right;">
June 10, 2015</div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-wilson/rush-limbaugh-stepped-into-it-this-time_b_7539348.html" target="_blank">originally posted at Huffington Post</a></div>
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Rush Limbaugh stepped into it this time.<br />
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The most popular radio
host in America is famous for spreading lies, propaganda, misogyny, and
hate over our publicly owned airwaves. But the Federal Communications
Commission, which oversees the public interest in broadcasting, has <a href="http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?72904-EMAIL-From-Mark-Berlin-Policy-Division-%28political-office%29" target="_hplink">consistently stood by Limbaugh's First Amendment right </a>to say whatever he wants, no matter how many people he harms or offends.<br />
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Until, perhaps, now.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>. <br />
On June 1, Limbaugh, in referring to a report about brisk job growth, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdAxCEwWtxM&feature=youtu.be" target="_hplink">used the word "bullshit."</a> <br />
Cussing on the air, my friends, is where the FCC draws the line. Under its <a href="http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/oip/" target="_hplink">indecency rules</a>, the FCC takes "complaints alleging the broadcast of material that describes or depicts sexual or excretory material."<br />
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The FCC's rules about indecency are intended to protect children from
seeing or hearing things over our publicly owned airwaves which parents
believe may be damaging to them.<br />
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So ironically, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/03/09/limbaugh-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-paterso/161413" target="_hplink">racist statements</a>
Rush has made about the first African American Governor of New York,
"So, David Paterson will become the massa who gets to appoint whoever
gets to take Massa's place. So, for the first time in his life,
Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting," or about <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2009/09/25/limbaugh-on-holocaust-of-indians-they-all-have/155040" target="_hplink">Native Americans</a>,
"Holocaust?" Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all
have casinos -- what's to complain about?" or about law school student <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/01/updated-limbaughs-misogynistic-attack-on-george/184248" target="_hplink">Sandra Fluke</a>
testifying to Congress about access to contraception, "So Miss Fluke
and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay
for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want
something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch,"
are NOT considered harmful to children, at least as far as the FCC is
concerned. But saying "bullshit" is.<br />
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Limbaugh, who has been a
broadcaster for more than 40 years, ought to know better. Or maybe he
does. Lately, Limbaugh has been veering dangerously close to the FCC
indecency line, doing an impression of a little kid asking "<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/06/03/the_trashing_of_america" target="_hplink">What is a dildo?</a>", saying he wants to vote for Ted Cruz because he likes to "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5yuGCqp1DQ" target="_hplink">spunk off,</a>" and questioning whether Caitlin Jenner has a penis, as he'd had to have had the <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/like-nancy-grace-rush-limbaugh-also-has-questions-about-jenners-penis/" target="_hplink">"chopadickoffame</a>" operation.<br />
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Perhaps he is taunting the FCC. But he does so at his own peril.<br />
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The minimum <a href="http://www.talkers.com/2015/03/25/fcc-issues-biggest-fine-ever/#more-34890" target="_hplink">fine the FCC imposes for a single indecency offense</a> is $7,000, and the maximum is $325,000. But Limbaugh's website says<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/stations" target="_hplink"> he airs on 590 individual stations</a> nationwide. And you can bet that the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/" target="_hplink">Flush Rush Facebook group</a> and<a href="http://www.stoprush.net/" target="_hplink"> #StopRush twitter volunteers</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362388/-Well-Wall-Street-Journal-Acknowledges-Social-Media-Stop-Rush-Are-Bringing-Limbaugh-Down" target="_hplink">who have taken nearly every advertiser away from Limbaugh's program</a> by simply educating sponsors as to what Rush really rants about, will be making complaints about every last station.<br />
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That
would add up to a minimum fine of $4,130,000, but a maximum of
$191,750,000. That is way too much money for stations who are already
losing money airing Limbaugh's show to cough up.<br />
. <br />
And that's no B.S.Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373737876997780530.post-52520407267413950212018-02-14T13:45:00.005-08:002018-02-20T09:43:31.324-08:00Jennifer Strange Case Finds End, Entercom Forfeits License<div style="text-align: right;">
originally published in the Sacramento Bee April 4, 2017<br />
by Dan Morain</div>
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From her home outside the no-stoplight settlement of Fiddletown, Sue
Wilson tilted at a corporate windmill, and a funny thing happened.<br />
. <br />
Sue from Fiddletown won, on our
behalf. You can hear the sound of that victory at the end of the FM
radio dial in Sacramento. Where there once was commercial pop music,
hooting deejays and stupid radio stunts, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article137269508.html" target="_blank" title="">there’s static</a>.<br />
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“We the People own the air waves,” she said, and repeats: “We the People.”<br />
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The start of this story probably
is vaguely familiar. On a Friday in January 2007, Jennifer Strange, a
28-year-old mother of three and a regular listener to 107.9-KDND, The
End, entered a contest called “Hold your wee for a Wii,” the Nintendo
gaming console that was all rage at the time.<br />
Strange, who wanted to win the
console for her kids, was one of 18 contestants who gathered at KDND,
which was owned by Entercom Communications Corp., the nation’s fourth
largest radio chain. The person who gulped the most water without having
to urinate would win. It was such a clever idea, sure to draw an
audience.<br />
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“Can’t you get water poisoning
and, like, die?” one of the disc jockeys asked, 16 minutes into the
show. A caller who identified herself as a nurse practitioner warned
that a person could die from water intoxication.<br />
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“Oh, my God,” Strange told another competitor, “I feel so awful, I’m about to pass out.”<br />
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The deejays worried that the
contest wouldn’t conclude by the end of the show, and increased the size
of the water bottles. Sixteen of the 18 had dropped out when Strange
accepted the second prize, tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert. Her
stomach was distended and she had a splitting headache, but she managed
to drive home. She fell into a coma and died that afternoon.<br />
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A friend of Strange’s called the
station with word of her death. Rather than call the other contestants
to check on their welfare, the station’s management called Entercom
headquarters in Bala Cynwyd outside Philadelphia and spoke to company
lawyers. When the deejays arrived for work on the Monday after Strange’s
death, they were told to hire attorneys and were fired.<br />
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The Federal Communications
Commission, which licenses radio stations, opened an investigation, as
did the Sacramento County District Attorney. Nothing came of either of
them. The family, having hired <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24553999.html" target="_blank" title="">Sacramento attorney Roger Dreyer</a>, sued and received a measure of justice in the form of a <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24562147.html" target="_blank" title="">$16.5 million judgment</a>.<br />
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That might have ended the matter, except that Wilson couldn’t let go.<br />
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<a name='more'></a><br />
Wilson is a former television and
radio reporter and producer, turned advocate for the old-fashioned
principles of the fairness, equal time and an insistence that
broadcasters that use public airwaves operate in the public interest.<br />
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She runs what she calls <a href="http://www.mediaactioncenter.net/" target="_blank" title="">Media Action Center</a>,
agitates, organizes, blogs and occasionally files complaints to the FCC
against conservative talk radio stations that fail to meet basic
standards of fairness. “I don’t make any money,” she said, which is
apparent by her cramped office and spotty cell phone reception.<br />
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During the trial over the
family’s civil suit against Entercom, Wilson would drive from the Amador
County foothills to the Sacramento County courthouse, gathering
material for a film and for what would be a challenge to KDND’s license.<br />
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That license was up for renewal at the end of 2013. On Oct. 31, 2013, a day before the deadline, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/181479011/KDND-Petition-to-Deny" target="_blank" title="">Wilson filed her petition against Entercom</a>. And she waited. And people moved on.<br />
The KDND on-air personalities
managed to land jobs, though it wasn’t easy. Adam Cox, whose radio name
is Lukas, said he was blackballed for years before finding work at a
station in Wichita, Kan.<br />
“It crushed me,” he said by phone; he’s writing a book about the experience.<br />
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Wilson figured that as the months
and years passed, Entercom would win its renewal; corporations always
do. But last Oct. 27, the <a href="https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-153A1_Rcd.pdf" target="_blank" title="">commission issued a 35-page order</a>
calling for a hearing to determine, among other issues, “whether
Entercom prioritized entertainment value over the welfare of contestants
of the ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ contest.”<br />
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In February, as Entercom was fighting to save its license, the company announced it was merging with CBS Radio, <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/business/A-fly-under-the-radar-Phila-media-giant-takes-the-big-leap-radio-leap-.html" target="_blank" title="">forming the second largest radio corporation in the nation</a>, with stations in 23 of the top 25 markets, 230-plus stations in all.<br />
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Sue from Fiddletown stood in the
way, with her petition before the FCC, which is one of the federal
agencies that must approve the merger. Rather than risk the
multibillion-dollar deal, Entercom took the extraordinary step of
abandoning the KDND license, writing off its value, $13.5 million.<br />
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“Would we have won? I don’t know. But we would have made a lot of noise,” Wilson said.<br />
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<a href="https://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/travis-leblanc.html" target="_blank" title="">Attorney Travis LeBlanc</a>
was the FCC’s chief of enforcement until recently, and knew the case.
“The motive here appears to be financial,” he said of Entercom’s decision
to forfeit the license. If not for the merger, “KDND probably still
would be fighting the FCC.”<br />
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But though it was delayed,
justice was served. The FCC will auction 107.9 to the highest bidder.
Some large corporation, though not Entercom, probably will win the
prize. But it doesn’t have to be that way, however.<br />
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Maybe a benevolent buyer will put
together a group. Imagine what a 50,000-watt station at the end of the
dial could do for the region if the owners bought into the concept of
equal time and fairness, and decided to operate it in the public
interest.<br />
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It’s improbable, highly unlikely,
and it would cost millions. But who would have thought that Sue from
Fiddletown would file a petition that would bring about the end to The
End.<br />
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Dan Morain: <a href="tel:916-321-1907" title="">916-321-1907</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielMorain" target="_blank" title="">@DanielMorain</a>Sue Wilson Reportshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872982849560848770noreply@blogger.com0