Les was the winner of Sierra Club’s national Outstanding Achievement Award in 1984. His lifetime congressional voting record with the National League of Conservation Voters was 80.64 percent.
Entries in Media consolidation (1)
First, they choke off what we can know ...
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote, It Can’t Happen Here, the seminal novel about how totalitarians take over the U.S.
It’s seventy two years later, and it’s happening. Has been, for several years. The latest move by our neo-con masters is to starve us of information we need to remain citizens, the better to make us serfs.
On December 18, the FCC relaxed the rules on media ownership, making it easier for conglomerates to buy up news outlets. It was another turn of the vise on the free flow of information.
Mussolini said,Fascism is just another word for corporatism.
Keep that in mind as you watch this disturbing video about the FCC outrage and what it means to each of us, courtesy of Bill Moyers Journal (PBS). The story shows that FCC Chair Kevin Martin, a neo-con Bush appointee, had made up his mind and created a 3-2 majority for the new media consolidation rule even before the sham public hearings had been concluded.
El Duce didn’t listen to public opinion either.
Les AuCoin
in Politics, civil liberties, neo-conservative, Media consolidation, FCC, totalitarian
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