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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] [Fwd: [FP] CBS plays politics with speech]
  • Date: 22 Jan 2004 11:36:13 -0800

I got through the first two paragraphs, and barfed. . . .
Tom

-----Forwarded Message-----

> From: Robert McChesney <rmcchesney AT mediareform.net>
> To: freepress_e_activist AT mediareform.net
> Subject: [FP] CBS plays politics with speech
> Date: 22 Jan 2004 11:28:13 -0500
>
> Last week, CBS censored free speech by refusing to sell airtime to the
> MoveOn Voter Fund for a political ad during the Super Bowl. The ad is
> critical of the Bush Administration's run-up of the federal deficit.
>
> CBS -- owned by media giant Viacom -- says it doesn't run
> "controversial" ads during the Super Bowl. But it plans to air a White
> House drug policy spot during the game. The last such ad linked
> marijuana smoking to terrorism... hardly uncontroversial.
>
> It is no coincidence that the White House and the FCC are pushing
> through new media ownership limits at the behest of CBS and other media
> giants -- efforts that MoveOn and Free Press activists have been
> fighting. CBS/Viacom spent $4 million lobbying Congress in the last
> four years alone.
>
> CBS is playing politics with the right to free speech: another example
> of media monopoly's chilling effect on democratic debate.
>
> We need your help to spread the word about CBS and the growing media
> crisis. Many members of Congress continue to fight media consolidation
> because millions of Americans have raised their voices. This recent
> insult proves that we need millions more.
>
> First, forward this email to everyone you know who cares about free
> speech and democracy.
>
> Next, go to http://www.mediareform.net/media to learn more and sign up
> to be a Free Press E-Activist if you are not one already.
>
> Help us expand the number of activists working to build a media system
> that serves the public interest, not just corporate interests. Our
> democracy depends on it.
>
> Onward,
> The Free Press Team
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  • [Community_studios] [Fwd: [FP] CBS plays politics with speech], tom poe, 01/22/2004

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