THE FASCIST FCC AND GOD, PLUS FAST CARS, DRUGS, AND LOW RENT BABES

The reason Left wants Local News is so they can pressure content. That is what they do.

Oh my God. What will happen to the "local news"? The rapes, I love rape stories and they are sooooo important in showing women what pigs men are. The drive-by shootings, gangs are soooo misunderstood and are such an important part of our culture. And the celebrity sex allows me to see how I can validate cheating on my wife like a rock star. The FCC is taking all that away. THEY MUST BE STOPPED, OR I'LL START DRINKING AGAIN.

The "party line" tells us the new FCC rules actually guarantee the end of local "news". FACT: I live in LA where there are seven local stations. All do exactly the same news. Every story is sired by either the LA Times, New York Times, AP, or other outside "feeds". Once in a while they'll do something original, which all other outlets will always ignore. This is the "system" that we must defend to the death. Why? Because this system also guarantees that the usual liberal values as articulated by the LA Times, New York Times and the rest will also be the local news without a dissonant note. It keeps everybody thinking the same way. What must be done is keep Rush, FOX, and the other Right Wing fascists from getting any more air time. Especially on local TV news. Larry Elder, a local Black conservative talk show host, was boycotted by all Black consumers and in spite of the fact he had the largest afternoon ratings in Los Angeles, his program was only "saved" from extinction by a massive bail job by conservatives. The Left had successfully boycotted him off the air because they didn't like his content. That's how the Left operates. They want to be able to continue to pressure local TV News to view their viewpoint and only their viewpoint in a favorable light.

Face it. The objections to change is all about FOX, Rush, and the failure of liberal agenda broadcasting to cover 100% of the population without any choice of alternative news.. What has happened is that the one size fits all news monopoly has vanished. Blame the Internet, cable, and talk radio. The people in power, most of whom are there due to the "old" system, BF (Before FOX) are threatened. Republicans are winning, and "everybody knows" Conservatives couldn't win if the news was "fair". The only thing that can keep other news outlets from drifting to the "right" is government control. The attackers would like to roll life back to the 60's and the old "fairness doctrine", a doctrine that assured nobody from the extreme right (and you can define that as anybody opposed to the Left) was allowed on TV at all. There were NO conservative voices anywhere in the media in the 1960's. Except for The Lone Ranger and Howdy Doody. Engineer Bob, a renegade who once put a Heckel and Jeckel cartoon on the air, was kept under strict control.

What the Left wants is their point of view to be guaranteed an exposure on every news cast. CNN is a case in point. They are the darling of the media elite. CNN can be counted upon to do two minutes every hour on environmentalism, another on some victim of the "system", two or three on a minority group, and a minute on some other favorite liberal topic like teachers, health care, and so on. CNN will do this regardless of the news value, thus actually placing a "value" on this type of news (information) above other news, news that they freeze out. People who watch CNN believe the news they see there is vital or it would not be on. They tend to believe the importance of this agenda and further believe that people who don't vote along these lines of "vital interest" are (immoral, wrong, part of a conspiracy against the poor, etc.). This group wants other information outlets to be forced to program these agenda interests within newscasts. They see any and all business owned news outlets as being "ratings driven", meaning the only news that gets produced will be news people actually care about. Let's say program A is put against program B. If program B has a different slant from A and most people watch B, the market will force A to become like B in order to stay competitive. Sounds OK, if. If there were only two outlets. But there are more than two choices. LA has seven choices for local news and all are exactly the same; EXCEPT for the always liberal, always boring, viewer poor PBS, which concentrates only on minorities, environment, and victims. Most days the seven commercial channels broadcast the same news at the same time during their newscasts. The only "scoop" they ever get is to be first to cover the latest freeway car chase. The only alternative to the entire system is FOX cable news, and a now somewhat centerist MSNBC.

The objections raised against the new FCC rules are not based on concentration of power. The real objections are about the ABSENCE of government control of content. The Left wants the government to dictate a portion of news content. To force all news to contain certain subject matter. They want to make sure they can "Bork" or "Larry Elderize" local news into conformity, or else. Nobody knows or has the foggiest idea what will result from the new rules. What we do know for sure is that neither government or liberals can dictate an agenda for news. It does no good at all to point to tax supported NPR and PBS as completely liberal outlets without a grain of "conservative" views that nobody listens to when given a choice. This is a battle for votes. If the audience gets the "wrong" information they will not vote Democratic. If everyone was forced to listen to the "truth" on NPR and PBS there is no doubt who would win elections.

That's what this is all about. "Oh, wait a second. Turn on the TV, it doesn't make any difference what channel. Everybody has this. Two gas guzzling SUVs are raping the planet."

Stay tuned.