Folks, I don't see commercial news except for the one or two nights a week that Peggy and I bring dinner to her mom's place, but what I do see is pretty sad, and explains why people in my country drive Hummers and eat WAY too much really unhealthy food and care WAY too much about football and baseball and freakin' Britney Spears...
Common Cause is running a campaign right now to influence the rule changes that the FCC is about to consider. Here's the message that they ask members to forward to friends. If you are moved to act, act. If you don't agree, feel free to tell Common Cause to get lost. If you think I've violated some tenet of Brin-L by posting this here, let me know. Offline is fine with me, unless that, too, violates Brin-Ellishness in some way... Dave -=-=-=-=- Did you know that in the past six months, major newspapers ran three times as many stories featuring Britney Spears than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Nothing personal against Britney, but we need less media coverage of her and more news about the policy decisions that impact our lives. But the giant companies that produce most of our news just aren't providing it. And now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to allow these huge media corporations to grab even more power. Send your message to the FCC today opposing further media consolidation. We're trying to send 25,000 letters before the December 21 deadline. Help us reach our goal and protect our media! http://www.commoncause.org/FightBigMedia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
