Thursday, March 20, 2008

FCC - Flares? Or, Smokescreen?

Recent news that the FCC was encouraged, along with ACLU and other civil liberties advocates, that the severe penalties for inadvertent use of profane words traditionally and famously not permitted by the current agency watchdog for public indecency on our airwaves, etc.

But, what is this actually?

perhaps a mere smokescreen held in reserve by the FCC to divert public attention from the more serious reformatting of the landscape of our public interests in media ownership, and other policies related to our right to know.

That's my diatribe on the goings on. What do you think about public policy, management of public information resources - such as 'big media', the many alternate channels for expression, and other new media members of the fourth estate??

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