FCC inside your local News Station ?

Godfather.

could this be a personal attack on FOXNEWS from obama ? ya gotta think right.....and if the FCC disaproves of a storie it gets white washed ? if this were to happen we would be like the news stations in other countries that are government run "giving the people what the FCC wants"...yes sir the country has got a lot better sense Bush left the white house LOL!!!!!

Godfather.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/20/critics-want-fcc-media-study-thrown-on-trash-heap-skeptical-changes/

Cosmo

I don't know, sir. What are your personal opinions on this story?

backseatLover12

Cosmo said:

I don't know, sir. What are your personal opinions on this story?

I can guess he agrees with Fox on the topic.

backseatLover12

Sorry to be a smart ass above, Godfather...

But reading this article, you know that it's all distracting bullshit, right? There is no one grilling the news stations because all of the mainstream news outlets are privately owned and content is tightly controlled. Don't let articles like this make you think that any individual news station has independent journalists.

I'm convinced this article was written to keep people distracted with bullshit as well as confused so they don't question the validity nor accuracy of ANY mainstream news station... Especially FOX.

Last-12-Exit

No other government entity needs to be gone more than the FCC (with the exception of the IRS). I'm sorry I have nothing more to add to the topic.

know1

Vote for Change!

rgambs

IRS??? how does a government function without tax income?

brianlux

I'm pretty sure the FCC is inside all news agencies, GF, I don't think Fox is singled out and I really doubt Obama is personally responsible for every action taken by the government. I'm always fascinated by the notion of getting rid of government agencies because that implies getting rid of government which would be true anarchy and I can only picture that happening fictitiously. Has true anarchy ever lasted for any significant length of time. If so, where, when? I'd love to read about it.

rgambs

The Native Americans lived for thousands of years communally, with only local (very local) representative governments. Children were taught and encouraged to submit to no other sovereignty but their own, and willful behavior was encouraged, which seems almost paradoxical for how communally they lived.
Anarchy could work but only in a communistic culture. How's that for a paradox? lol

brianlux

rgambs said:

The Native Americans lived for thousands of years communally, with only local (very local) representative governments. Children were taught and encouraged to submit to no other sovereignty but their own, and willful behavior was encouraged, which seems almost paradoxical for how communally they lived.
Anarchy could work but only in a communistic culture. How's that for a paradox? lol

Yes, of course! I didn't even think of the obvious. I'm fascinated by the Neo-Tribalism movement... but that might be another thread some time.

Godfather.

brianlux said:

I'm pretty sure the FCC is inside all news agencies, GF, I don't think Fox is singled out and I really doubt Obama is personally responsible for every action taken by the government. I'm always fascinated by the notion of getting rid of government agencies because that implies getting rid of government which would be true anarchy and I can only picture that happening fictitiously. Has true anarchy ever lasted for any significant length of time. If so, where, when? I'd love to read about it.

agreed Brian but when I read it I started to think about all the articals I've read about obama and his ......,un-rest with FOX, and that along with the IRS and all the big brother watchdog mess going on I just had to wonder is this another obama executive move ?...probably not but with everything else going I have to wonder, I know people say Bush started this and Ragen started that so it's not obama's fault but I have to say that obama's done a pretty good job on his own to make people doubt and ctirize him sooooo I was just wondering what the train thought of all this stuff ?

Godfather.

Godfather.

rgambs said:

The Native Americans lived for thousands of years communally, with only local (very local) representative governments. Children were taught and encouraged to submit to no other sovereignty but their own, and willful behavior was encouraged, which seems almost paradoxical for how communally they lived.
Anarchy could work but only in a communistic culture. How's that for a paradox? lol

Bikers have lived the same way for many years but they get arrested for it......paradox you say..

) sorry man I could'nt resist


Godfather.

chadwick

Godfather. said:

rgambs said:

The Native Americans lived for thousands of years communally, with only local (very local) representative governments. Children were taught and encouraged to submit to no other sovereignty but their own, and willful behavior was encouraged, which seems almost paradoxical for how communally they lived.
Anarchy could work but only in a communistic culture. How's that for a paradox? lol

Bikers have lived the same way for many years but they get arrested for it......paradox you say..

) sorry man I could'nt resist


Godfather.

you're comparing native americans & the many thousands of years they lived functioning together through good times & bad with motorcycle clubs? yeah (for example) hell's angels have a really wonderful model of successful communal living.

nice job, godfather





chadwick

rgambs

the vast majority of motorcycle clubs are benign at least if not beneficial to society. these people like to party, there is no denying that, but havn't you ever noticed how many charity runs they do across the nation? they are usually tied in with causes like POW/MIA and Veteran's groups. hell's angel's are the exception, not the rule.

Godfather.

Chadwick; native Americans living and functioning together....you mean to say they never fought with each other (tribe to tribe) and killed each other over land or anything else ?
and my post was just a joke and not ment to be taken seriously . any land can be called "indian land" but believe me there is/was a tribe that calls it theirs and 300 or 3000 years in the past they killed each other to keep it or control it and today aint much different, you can tell the more sucessful tribes by the size of their casinos.

rgambs; many clubs infact all that I am aware of do many chartible runs in fact a club in san diego is having a cancer run and 100% of all entry fee's and donations go straight to a cancer treatment center, these runs are part of MC rules and H/A's are very involved in these activitys as well.

Godfather.

Cosmo

Godfather. said:

Chadwick; native Americans living and functioning together....you mean to say they never fought with each other (tribe to tribe) and killed each other over land or anything else ?
and my post was just a joke and not ment to be taken seriously . any land can be called "indian land" but believe me there is/was a tribe that calls it theirs and 300 or 3000 years in the past they killed each other to keep it or control it and today aint much different, you can tell the more sucessful tribes by the size of their casinos.

rgambs; many clubs infact all that I am aware of do many chartible runs in fact a club in san diego is having a cancer run and 100% of all entry fee's and donations go straight to a cancer treatment center, these runs are part of MC rules and H/A's are very involved in these activitys as well.

Godfather.

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I thought the Native Americans were nomadic and did not believe in the concept of land ownership. Theirs was more along the lines of land stewardship or land management. No one really owned the land, that concept was given to them by Western European culture. And yes, there were often times when fight would break out as differing tribes hunted and fished in the same plot of land... but, genocide was never the goal. The goal was to reduce the numbers of the other tribe to reduce the amount of resouces that tribe would require. But, for the most part, they tried to maintain buffers to avoid conflicts.
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Also... I'm not a scientist or anything, but, I think that anyone can choose to join a motocycle club... but it is very difficult to change from an Irish/Italian to become a Native American or a black person... and vice versa.

Godfather.

cosmo it's called inter-racial breeding ) yes sir anybody can choose to join a motorcycle club as well as anybody can choose to join the black panthers.

just funning ya man.

Godfather.

Cosmo

Godfather. said:

cosmo it's called inter-racial breeding ) yes sir anybody can choose to join a motorcycle club as well as anybody can choose to join the black panthers.
just funning ya man.
Godfather.

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Saul Goode.
Back to the lecture at hand... why do you think this survey is so horrible? I mean, it is a survey, not a shutdown.
The survey would just like to know what the criteria a newsroom chooses to use when compiling their new broadcast. Like, why do some news rooms lead with a Justin Beiber story... or why some choose to ignore international news items?
Don't you wish that the news would broadcast the news... instead of making news stories about the doings of the Kardashians? Why do we get the crap National Enquirer tabloid 'news' that we've been geting for the past couple of decades?

Godfather.

my thought was/is if the FCC is alowed total control of all news stations we would get news even less worthy of the National Enquirer especiall when it comes to political news involving the president or his actions,by the way I saw Kim K's butt on the tabloid rack at Vons the other day.....man that thing is huge ! :bz

Godfather.

Cosmo

No. The FCC gets involved when it's regulations are violated. Things like saying 'Fuck' over broadcast airwaves is a violation and you will get fined if you say it.
Cable Stations or 'Pay For' stations are exempt since you are paying for it. It will still be censored by network management, so groups like, 'Focus On The Family' won't have a shit fit and complain to everyone, like they did over Janet Jackson's tit. That's why Howard Stern used to get in all of that trouble when he was on broadcast public airwaves.
The survey just wanted to gather data to see how newsrooms prioritize stories and what criteria they use to decide whether Kanye West shoving a photographer is newsworthy or and should lead the broadcast. But, FOX News is making it out to be government control over all news outlets in order to instill more fear in their already frieghtened audience.

Godfather.

but if the FCC is alowed into news stations what will be the next move ? maybe running all news stories thru the FCC for aproval ? the government is never happy until they get what they want and with all the bullshit that is approved by obama and his reckless use of power as president doesn't leave me with a very trusting feeling of anything obama/government related,if people can't see that then the cool-aid has done it's job,have you heard anything about the UN and it's "small arms treaty" with the approval your truly our president ?
so no I have no faith/trust in the obama admin.

Godfather.

backseatLover12

Yet, you have devoted trust/faith to Fox News, Godfather? *scratch head*

Godfather.

backseatLover12 said:

Yet, you have devoted trust/faith to Fox News, Godfather? *scratch head*

I have faith and trust in very few people least of all a news station..any news station.

Godfather.

Cosmo

Godfather. said:

but if the FCC is alowed into news stations what will be the next move ? maybe running all news stories thru the FCC for aproval ? the government is never happy until they get what they want and with all the bullshit that is approved by obama and his reckless use of power as president doesn't leave me with a very trusting feeling of anything obama/government related,if people can't see that then the cool-aid has done it's job,have you heard anything about the UN and it's "small arms treaty" with the approval your truly our president ?
so no I have no faith/trust in the obama admin.

Godfather.

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See? There is that unwarranted fear kicking in again.
The U.S. will never have anything other than a Free Press because it is written into our DNA. You are being fed a steady diet of fear from a politically motivated, biased Op/Ed media outlet. Just because FOX News says they are 'Fair And Balanced' does not mean they are fair and balanced.
Look, you have been told that President Obama was indoctrinating our kids to Socialism... when it was just a canned speech on the first day of school to tell them to stay in school and study hard. You were told that all of the guns were going to be collected, against the will of its owners. You were told that the FLU shots contained mind control drugs. You ARE being told that the attack in Benghazi is the worst thing to ever happen to America. None of those things were/are true. If you truely believe those things... I think you might want to look into the mirror to find out who is drinking the Kool-Aid.
Please, sir... do yourself a favor... don't believe everything FOX News tells you. Look that shit up yourself and seek the truth. Stop eating the politically biased bullshit they are constantly serving up.

Cosmo

Also...
Regarding that U.N. Small arms Treaty you are so afraid of:
have you heard anything about the UN and it's "small arms treaty" with the approval your truly our president ?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
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The treaty is to stem the flow of arms to places, such as Syria, Yemen, Somalia by state authorized sales. This means, Browning Firearms and Kalasnikov Arms cannot legally sell guns to Somali pirates... for example.

mickeyrat

umm, given tha the FCC is the agency tasked with regulating the airwaves and those who use them, doesnt it stand then that they can already go where they please, i.e. newsrooms etc?

I find nothing wrong with a study that aims to find out how and why decisions are made to air XYZ. like why in the FUCK is a little douche like JB getting airplay on the national news, was it to remind the nation that DUI is a serious problem? That binge drinking is a problem? That speeding in excess of 20MPH over the posted limit is a problem?
No , no it wasnt.
Tabloid at best. There was a time when news GATHERING, and reporting said gathered news were held in esteem. Now? Selling ads through fear or whatever polls say they can make the biggest bang for the buck on.

josevolution

Hasn't OBAMA given exclusive interviews to the moron Oreilly twice ....