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Are Broadcasters Serving the Public Interest?
Posted on August 13, 2004
If you have read about our Just Media Project, the answer is NO!
The Op-Ed piece "Broadcasters must be made to serve the public interest," appeared in yesterday's Seattle Times and it maintains that the public decide what is seen on the public airwaves.
Broadcasters Must Be Made to Serve the Public Interest
By Chellie Pingree and Jonathan Rintels
Special to The Times
With the encouragement of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell, the country's broadcasters and cable operators have agreed to meet behind closed doors to decide what Americans will see on their televisions as the nation transitions from analog to digital broadcasting.
Representatives of the public interest were not invited. Neither were the commissioners of the FCC, nor members of Congress.
Why do we call the public's attention to this private meeting? Because these two corporate oligopolies that control television are meeting to decide what the public will see on airwaves that are not their property, but the property of the public.
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