Forum Post: The FCC votes to make public information available on web, Congress moves to stop it.
Posted 12 years ago on June 8, 2012, 7:01 a.m. EST by factsrfun
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The FCC voted to require TV stations to post public information on the web, so people would not have to drive in and look at paper copies, now of course you can already do that for pretty much anything, but this public information has to do with who pays for political ads.
Now in congress a committee has voted to stop the rule in a very partisan way, now can we take a position on the rule without being partisan?
Should we take a position on the rule?
Should we support people who support things we support?
Among other things the FCC should be looking into the prevalence of false advertizing and issuing fines and alerting the EPA and alerting the American People as well as government as well as the Justice department. WTF good are public protection agencies if they don't do the job? WTF good is government if they support domestic threats?
There is no such thing as "clean" coal.
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U.S. EPA Sued over Toxic Coal Ash Disposal
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Environmental Groups Target Coal Ash Disposal
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Coal Ash Sites Across the Country - Sierra Club
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They should set aside a certain amount of ad money to fund consumer reporting, be required to run “fact checks” spots for any found to be misleading.
I have one in particular that bugs me, you see all the hype over shingles vaccine. supposedly 1in 3 people will get shingles. when's the last time you saw anyone with shingles?
sorry this just bugs me and I know it's off topic
dave letterman? chicken pox stay away from it and keep your kids away, no chicken pox = no shingles
my fiend has shingles
how did you know ?
wrong spelling, wrong subject, wrong forum
your right sorry I brought it up
They have on duty censors that monitor programming they should be able to monitor advertising at the same time.
Clean Coal? No Brainer - plenty of evidence to slap that down immediately.
There should be fines issued to the stations that air the BS as well as to the producers of the BS as well as to the corporations who hired the BS to be produced.
These industry ads that look like public service ads are the worst of the bunch, I think, disgusting.
Yep - those that predict more jobs and a healthy future while bringing down costs by doing things like the keystone pipeline for domestic use when it is for export out of country and not for domestic use at all.
I didn't follow that real closely but it seemed like they got a pipeline to the refineries already and the keystone took it to the gulf, don't they have oil there already?
They have built some of the southern end of the pipe line but it has not been connected up through Canada yet. They are looking for low cost access to coastal shipping ports.
But this isn't this the second one? There already is one from Canada to somewhere midwest, so as you said this looks like it's about moving oil to the gulf, now I know they say to the refineries but they won't sign to keep it off tankers either as I understand.
They are lying to the public to get support. I am going to repost another of my letters - this one on Clean Coal - there is a bunch of informational links in it on fracking and tar sands as well.
Campaign funding miniscule compared to government budget
that's why it's such a good investment, wish the taxpayers would invest in something like that
tax papers include a box to donate a $1 to public campaigning
in AZ we can give 5 and a lot use the public funding, that one is for the presidential I think and latly their turning down the chump change for the billion dollar trust fund babbies
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When the facts are partisan, the responses tend to be too.
it seems this one is pretty clear making it easier to know who is paying for the campagain ads is divided straght down the party line, some want to do the right thing but agree to bad to get something done, some want to do bad from the start...
Not much else to be said facts, not much else to be said.
It is what it is.
"It is what it is"
That's tough to accept, but is the begining of change.
First, the reality of it needs to become widely accepted and understood.
hey did you see the Bill Maher post? here's the link, tough words, but true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/09/bill-maher-mocks-occupy-wall-street_n_1583616.html
A change in strategy would serve OWS well at this point.
It's up to them though, and I do like the attempted bribery tactic.....:)
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