Neoconservatism--Another Word for Fascism

Fascism--Everyone is Afraid of the Word and Has Learned to Igore It When They See It In Action! What is this? And, how can this be O.K.? Watch this propaganda clip!

Startling Statistics

• 80 percent of the television market is controlled by 5 corporations: General Electric, Walt Disney, Bertelsmann, News Corp, CBS. Radio and Publishing are also being strangled by huge conglomerates.
• On Dec 7, 2007 the FCC lifted the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross ownership which prevented corporations from owning a television, radio station, and a daily newspaper in the same area; big media has the pass to get even bigger, thanks to the FCC.
• The media landscape is dominated by huge corporations whose main objective is profit at the expense of democratic discourse: lack of diversity, commercialized news that is out of touch with local concerns, and a news environment where only the powerful have a voice.
• Stopbigmedia reports, "Between 1995 and 2003, ten of the largest TV-station owners went from owning 104 stations with $5.9 billion in revenue to owning 299 stations with $11.8 billion in revenue."
• The Newspaper Guild, (CWA), reports that 44,000 news industry employees lost their jobs from 2001 to mid-2006 -- at least 34,000 of them at newspapers alone. As many as several thousand more have been laid off by big conglomerates since then.
• Common Cause reports: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 lifted ownership limits for radio stations, leading to an extreme consolidation of radio station ownership. One company alone, Clear Channel Inc., now owns nearly 1,200 radio stations across the country. Before the change, a company could not own more than 40 stations nationwide.
• Free Press reports, Media consolidation results in a loss of unbiased, independent, critical journalism needed to prevent abuses of power.

THE DANGERS OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION

Leaders Taking Their Positions

A National Movement for Media Reform is underway; and luckilly the Bush Administration is out of the way. Obama is stepping up to the plate and challenging corporate media. Antrust action is underway. Will corporate media is will be held accountable for a capitalist agenda that is out of control? Is it possible for the public interest to win in battling the corporate elite? Is Net Neutrality the answer? I think so. How about you? Net Neutrality is freedom of speech in action--blocking out capitalist agenda's that are dangerous and deadly for American Democracy, Net Neutrality gives the public's voice back. Capitalism shouldnt be preserved at the expense of democracy.