To: William Lake,, Chief, Media Bureau and P. Michele Ellison, Bureau Chief
Stop using our airwaves to divide us.
We the People own the public broadcast airwaves, Local Radio and TV stations are granted licenses to broadcast ONLY IF they serve the public interest.
That interest is being manipulated by breeding division in our nation and its citizens.There are gross imbalances of political viewpoints on the public airwaves per week to Right Wing talk, while devoting not a single minute to any other viewpoint a model perpetuated throughout 90% of the country
The FCC has stated that broadcast stations enjoy freedom of speech under the First Amendment, and the FCC is prohibited by statute from censoring or dictating program content. The result is that stations are free to air pretty much whatever they want (short of obscenity or indecency) – even if the material is false, misleading, or slanted.”
.The FCC conveniently forgets the Supreme Court ruling that broadcasters may not engage in “Private Censorship.” “the First Amendment is relevant to broadcasting, but it is the right of the viewer and listener, not the broadcaster, which is paramount.”
One simple step would be to require broadcasters to clearly delineate which of their shows are news, and which are opinion, and therefore colored with misinformation.
We the people depend on the FCC to enforce the law.
http://www.ourpublicairwaves.com/
That interest is being manipulated by breeding division in our nation and its citizens.There are gross imbalances of political viewpoints on the public airwaves per week to Right Wing talk, while devoting not a single minute to any other viewpoint a model perpetuated throughout 90% of the country
The FCC has stated that broadcast stations enjoy freedom of speech under the First Amendment, and the FCC is prohibited by statute from censoring or dictating program content. The result is that stations are free to air pretty much whatever they want (short of obscenity or indecency) – even if the material is false, misleading, or slanted.”
.The FCC conveniently forgets the Supreme Court ruling that broadcasters may not engage in “Private Censorship.” “the First Amendment is relevant to broadcasting, but it is the right of the viewer and listener, not the broadcaster, which is paramount.”
One simple step would be to require broadcasters to clearly delineate which of their shows are news, and which are opinion, and therefore colored with misinformation.
We the people depend on the FCC to enforce the law.
http://www.ourpublicairwaves.com/
Why is this important?
To pressure the FCC To require broadcasters to clearly delineate which of their shows are news, and which are opinion, and therefore colored with misinformation.