This page has all the info you’ll need on contacting the FCC. Or you could go to mediareform.net instead, and used their prepared materials and links to contact the FCC. Do it now, today. Or tomorrow. Do it by Monday morning at the very latest. But call them, or email them, or FAX them.
Do it. It takes two minutes. Do it.
What are you calling them about? Well, to quote from mediareform.net’s materials:
Nationally, it will mean the largest firms will be able to swallow up any other media firms they set their eyes upon, and industry observers all expect a flurry of large deals. At the local level, we should expect a single firm, or perhaps two or three firms, to own the vast majority of the media — daily newspaper, TV stations, radio stations, cable TV system — in a single community. There is enormous profit to be made by having such monopolistic power, and firms are scrambling to get the rules changed so they can dominate markets and crush competition.
Such media concentration not only violates the premises of a competitive marketplace, but it makes a mockery of the notion of a free press enshrined in the Constitution. The implications are clear: huge media conglomerates will rule journalism, culture and to a large extent, public opinion. They have the power to put their footprint on our political system in a manner that has never been seen before. As they say, “You control the news, you control the views.”
CNN reports that the FCC’s email and voice mail systems have been flooded with messages – more than they can handle. Let’s not relent now. Keep it up!
For more info on this issue, check out mediareform.net’s pages. Also, Jimm of the blog “Project for a New Century of Freedom” has been very on top of this issue, so check out his posts.
But most of all – make a call, write an email, send a FAX. Do it now, please. Today.
Who knows? Maybe it’ll make a diff. Can’t hurt to try, I figure..
Already done last week, Thanks.
I wonder how we can pressure the House and Senate to throw a monkey wrench into Powell’s little plan, as well ? Yes, I’ve already written them, too. Sigh.
Also done last week here. There’s a form that you can use to email all five of the commissioners in one fell swoop at Acts of Conscience: http://conscience.notfrisco2.com/archives/002305.html