[Peace] Tonight: Focus on the FCC on NOW with Bill Moyers

[Kranich, Kimberlie]

Check out NOW with Bill Moyers tonight at 8pm on WILL-TV.
 
Kimberlie 
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Subject: 	Tonight: Focus on the FCC on NOW with Bill Moyers	
Date: 	Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:15:56 -0500	
From: 	"PATEL Su"  <mailto:PatelS at thirteen.org> <PatelS at thirteen.org>	
To: 	"PATEL Su"  <mailto:PatelS at thirteen.org> <PatelS at thirteen.org>	


Dear Friend,

I thought you might be particularly interested in tonight's episode of

NOW with Bill Moyers.



This evening, NOW focuses on media issues, especially those pertaining

to media consolidation in an examination of talk radio, in a review of

the FCC's recent hearings, and in a revealing interview with Rep. Tom

Osbourne (NE), who calls for a vote in the House of Representatives to

rollback new media ownership rules passed by the FCC in June.  In

September 2003, after a public outcry over the FCC decision, the U.S.

Senate passed a resolution of disapproval to nullify the rules, but the

House leadership has refused to bring it to a vote.  "What it requires

now is what's called a discharge petition," Osborne tells Bill Moyers.

"When you sign a discharge petition you're essentially going against

your leadership.  And you better be...committed and willing to pay the

price to do that.  So I would hope that our leadership might relent on

this issue.  If necessary then there may be a discharge petition.  And,

of course, there's a fair likelihood that that might happen."



If you're interested in distributing the complete interview with Rep.

Osborne, contact me directly.  And, please alert your friends,

colleagues, and members to this broadcast and let me know if you can

spread the word to those in your network.



Thank you!

Sincerely,

Su Patel

NOW with Bill Moyers



NOW with Bill Moyers

PBS Airdate: Friday, Februrary 13, 2004 at [Kranich, Kimberlie] 8  p.m.

(check local listings at  http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html
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This week on NOW: 

 

* Talk radio...who's setting the nation's agenda?  NOW reports in RADIO

WAVES.

* Super Bowl, the afterglow, the aftershock.  NOW travels to Capitol

Hill for the FCC hearings in TV NATION.

* Representative Tom Osborne (R-NE) is on a mission to stop indecency in

the media.  A Bill Moyers interview. 

* Who will really benefit from the Bush tax cuts? You might be left out.

NEW YORK TIMES tax expert David Cay Johnston talks with David Brancaccio

about inequality.  



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RADIO WAVES



One-in-four Americans get some of their daily news from talk radio.

Despite the popular notion of liberal bias in media, the biggest names

on the radio airwaves are unabashedly conservative.  With the ability of

corporate media giants to create conservative radio mega-stars and reach

a huge audience, many critics wonder if talk radio is setting the

political agenda in America. NOW examines talk radio's power to change

opinion, influence policy, and shape the upcoming elections.  Among

those interviewed are Portland, Oregon's conservative radio personality

Lars Larson for a look at how his nationally-syndicated radio show is

influencing politics and policy locally, as well as West Palm Beach's

liberal talk radio personality Randi Rhodes.



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TV NATION



In the wake of Janet Jackson's infamous halftime show, both the Senate

and House held hearings Wednesday on indecency in the media, questioning

the FCC, Viacom president and COO Mel Karmazin, and NFL Commissioner

Paul Tagliabue.  With this week's Comcast takeover bid for Disney, the

second-largest hostile bid in US Corporate history, many critics worry

that increasing media consolidation will make it more likely that

indecent material will end up on the airwaves.  As Big Media gets

bigger, will local community standards suffer from a more permissive

national standard?  NOW heads to Capitol

Hill to report.



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TOM OSBORNE (R-NE)



One person outraged by the Superbowl halftime show was Representative

Tom Osborne (R-NE), co-chair of the Congressional Sex and Violence in

the Media Caucus, aimed at protecting children from violent images and

sexual content in the media.  Osborne is the co-sponsor of two bills:

one seeks to regulate profane language and another to increase by

ten-fold the fines to broadcasters who violate indecency laws.  Osborne

talks to Bill Moyers about his efforts to combat indecency on our TV and

Radio airwaves, and about whether he foresees a decline in decency

standards with the rise in media concentration.  



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DAVID CAY JOHNSTON



NEW YORK TIMES Pulitzer prize-winning financial reporter David Cay

Johnston has spent the past nine years exposing loopholes in the tax

code.  He reports that what American know about their tax system has

nothing to do with the reality of it, and readily admits that for most

of his 37 years of investigative reporting, he did not understand the

tax system himself.  David Brancaccio talks to Johnston about some of

the surprising things revealed in his new book, PERFECTLY LEGAL: THE

COVERT CAMPAIGN TO RIG OUR TAX SYSTEM TO BENEFIT THE SUPER-RICH, AND

CHEAT EVERYBODY ELSE.  "The fundamental

thing I've learned is that the members of Congress who are passing these

laws don't have any idea about their impact," says Johnston.  "I mean,

what their belief about how the tax system really works has about as

much to do with reality as my third grandson's belief in Santa Claus."



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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org ().

Log on to the site for a history of talk radio and its impact; for

statistics on who gets their news from talk radio; for online talk radio

resources; for a look at the media censorship issues facing congress and

the FCC; an overview debates over the inheritance tax and the tax cuts;

and more.












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