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The Daily Stern
: KEYSTONE KOPPS: The scariest FCC commissioner, Democrat Michael Copps, opens his yap and pushes once again for more government regulation of media. Say that three times out loud and feel the hair stand up on end: Government regulation of media. Government regulation of media. Government regulation of media.
Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps said media deregulation is
“He’s a friggin’ ayatollah.”
Ooh. Nothing like serious media criticism.
The Buzzmachine formula is crystal-clear: exceed any reasonable fair use and plagiarize the work of others via cut and paste, add some snarky comment, and then proclaim yourself King of All Bloggers.
Don’t quit your insider day job, Jeffo.
Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, you’re so scary imaginative Yockey! And such a chicken.
I think something else happens when you say ‘Government Regulation of Media’ three times out loud.
http://www.scrawlville.com/archives/000129.html
Doesn’t the government already regulate a big chunk of the media?
Keep fighting the good fight!
Never Surrender! Never Give Up!
Once again, Jarvis’ knickers are twisted at the thought that a media type will be discouraged from using words that Jarvis won’t allow on his blog.
And Jarvis still doesn’t care about the agency that regulates political speech by the rest of us.
Copps may claim to be a democrat
but he aint no democrat
When I was a kid, we had 3 TV stations. Now, we have 150 or so cable channels, but they’re pretty much all owned by about 5 companies. In terms of diversity of viewpoint, this is not an improvement.
I’m not wild about government regulation of content. (That’s an understatement.) But government limits on ownership? That I could get behind. Because what we’ve got right now hovers somewhere between an oligopoly, a monopoly and a cartel, three words that really DO make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And not in a good way.
–Lex
Republican since 1978.
Broadcaster, 1978-1985.
lex,
here here!
just curiuous….if Stern hates it so much, when does he quit? Because, hysteria to the contrary, he hasn’t been removed from the air by the govt…