OT: F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market

[Guest guest]

Howdy Marcia,

 

> The FCC isn't doing this willingly, they've been mandated by Congress. They

> actually have just held the last of quickly and poorly advertised hearings

> to move once again towards media consolidation, much like their 2003 agenda.

> http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG & b=192086 Anyone here

> who has read Naomi Wolf's latest book,

> excerpted here http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html will

> recognize the Bush agenda for media consolidation.

>

> Marcia Elston/Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> http://www.wingedseed.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

 

Didn't matter to me why they were gonna do it .. and I wasn't trying

to promote the present administration. Bush can't run again anyway

and it matters not who gets into the White House next time because

politicians are liars who eat crap and howl at the moon anyway. ;-)

 

I sent it along cause I think its good news and I think folks will be

grinning when the changes are made.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

[Guest guest]

>

>

> On Behalf Of Butch Owen

> Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:23 PM

>

> OT: F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open

> Cable Market

>

> Howdy Marcia,

>

> > The FCC isn't doing this willingly, they've been mandated

> by Congress.

> > They actually have just held the last of quickly and poorly

> advertised

> > hearings to move once again towards media consolidation,

> much like their 2003 agenda.

> >

> http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG & b=192086 Anyone

> > here who has read Naomi Wolf's latest book, excerpted here

> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html will

> recognize

> > the Bush agenda for media consolidation.

> >

> > Marcia Elston/Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> > http://www.wingedseed.com http://www.aromaconnection.org

>

> Didn't matter to me why they were gonna do it .. and I wasn't trying

> to promote the present administration. Bush can't run again anyway

> and it matters not who gets into the White House next time because

> politicians are liars who eat crap and howl at the moon anyway. ;-)

 

Can't argue with you there . . . I think most of them are to the blood

sucking stage and not just howlin'.

>

> I sent it along cause I think its good news and I think folks

> will be grinning when the changes are made.

 

I'm just not gonna hold my breath when it comes to honest FCC regulations

that mandate the expected intent of the fourth estate.

>

> Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

Isn't it more like a grimace these days??? :-)

 

Be well,

Marcia Elston/Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide and slavery - have

resulted from obedience, not disobedience. "

Howard Zinn

[Guest guest]

I certainly hope they're good changes! The way it is now, one cable company gets

a grip on a town and believe it or not it's the town that makes the contract

with the cable company. Then no one else can get in. It's a monopoly on that

town.

 

That's not free market. There IS no competition. Then they pad their channel

line up with trash that you don't want. They could set things up much

differently IF they wanted to. If the lousy channels lose out, oh well. I don't

believe I should be used to subsidize a channel that would fail if it weren't

forced on consumers. You pay for it whether you watch it or not.

 

Anyway that's my rant.

 

Cable companies and cell phone companies should have to compete for business. I

recently had my cable turned off and went to a dish because they wanted to raise

my cable bill so high. And no TV program provider is worth that much to me.

I'll do without first. In fact I had the cable for my daughter and son in law,

and for my grand daughter to watch cartoons. I rarely even watched it.

 

Now I have a little TV in my bedroom I can watch TLC,The History Channel, and

The Learning Channel on, and I like C Span, and such, as well as TWC.

 

LOL, but what I really like is the shopping channels and the fact that I can buy

stuff with the click of my remote control, between that and my computer I'm set

for Christmas. I won't have to go out into traffic at all. Thank heavens.

 

Now if they'd just get grocery delivery that I can order on my computer in this

area. That would be great!

 

 

-

Butch Owen

Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:22 PM

OT: F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market

 

 

Howdy Marcia,

 

> The FCC isn't doing this willingly, they've been mandated by Congress. They

> actually have just held the last of quickly and poorly advertised hearings

> to move once again towards media consolidation, much like their 2003 agenda.

> http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG & b=192086 Anyone here

> who has read Naomi Wolf's latest book,

> excerpted here http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html will

> recognize the Bush agenda for media consolidation.

>

> Marcia Elston/Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

> http://www.wingedseed.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

 

Didn't matter to me why they were gonna do it .. and I wasn't trying

to promote the present administration. Bush can't run again anyway

and it matters not who gets into the White House next time because

politicians are liars who eat crap and howl at the moon anyway. ;-)

 

I sent it along cause I think its good news and I think folks will be

grinning when the changes are made.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com