Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued what is clearly an activist ruling. This order blocks FCC rules that prohibited media corporations from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same city.
Why? Simply because.
With this ruling, the far-right propaganda pipeline widens - if that's at all possible after Congress's 1996 bailout of right-wing media hadn't already made it pervasive.
Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell praised the ruling because it removes "burdensome ownership rules." Are you kidding me? "Burdensome" how??? The rule that was lifted appears to have been the only ownership rule that remained!
The only "burdensome ownership rules" are ones against independent micropower stations like Tantrum 95.7 - which was shut down by the FCC.
If ownership caps violate corporations' True Free Speach Now (tm), then doesn't that mean individuals have a free speech right to run a station too?
In the meantime, the states need to be defiant. The states must step up to the plate and break up newspaper/TV combos that may be allowed under this ruling.
(Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i--VTd4twDDwIs6fFZPTcO6Gkn1AD9EKJMP01)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I guess Tantrum 95.7 is legal now
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Tantrum 95.7 played "Next Episode" by Dr. Dre UNCENSORED, with the part at the "leave your name and number at the m---f--- beep" at the beginning...Perhaps THAT is why the FCC shut it down.
ReplyDeleteThe song you're referring to was not "The Next Episode." It was "Lay Low" by Snoop Dogg et al.
ReplyDeleteTim, do you have any playlists from Tantrum 95.7 or better yet, recordings of broadcasts? This would be a very important addition to the Bandit Archives.
ReplyDeleteI know I have some old music surveys somewhere. I'm pretty sure "Because I Got High" by Afroman was #1 on our survey when we got shut down.
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