Forum Post: Recieved interesting E-Mail about reforming the Press. What do you think?
Posted 3 months ago on Jan. 23, 2013, 3:24 p.m. EST by DKAtoday
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If I lived in Denver, I might go. There are several presenters that I would like to see. I would really like to see Michael Copps. Fission strategy is a pr group. I'm all good with the pr groups. I'm also pretty much done with the Nation. It looks pretty interesting.
Yeah - wish I could afford to go. Am gonna Tweet for larger circulation.
That bird is actually quite beautiful.
Communication taking flight. {;-]) Beautiful
God knows how much murdoch paid to who to create massive press conglomerates.
Break em up!
But the only way that happens is with legislation
can you name a single R that would vote for this
2014
Those in office right now - State & Federal must be polled.
We certainly need major media reform! I say break up the media conglomerates, remove ad based revenue, Have penalties for dishonesty, Have public mechanism for reaction that is viewable.
can't make it, maybe they'll have an on line access/streaming thing.?
High priority issue, Excellent post!
Thx
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So this Friday at 10 a.m. we’re launching our livestream at conference.freepress.net. Click here to see which sessions we’ll highlight.
Thx, I see that now that I have perused deeper.
The film trailers look good, Amy Goodmans (She's MY Beyonce too!) quote is excellent.
I'll be watching.
Ex-cellent action item.-- Educate ourselves!!
Educate the public - they need to understand the fact - that they are not getting the news - but are in fact getting corpoRAT propaganda/twist/spin for the owners agenda.
We are woefully uninformed BECAUSE of conglomerate media/oligarchal collusion.
This is not the 1st media conference, and it won't be the last.
(And.......up bump up)
Another important issue for the public to address. Facts not Fiction to be presented by all media services - reports to be in FULL context - not snipits No Spin - this to include advertisements as well as news service.
I'm really not a fan of ANY censorship -
an alternative might be to broadcast a FACTCHECK every day
Factcheck is one thing - the FCC is already supposed to be monitoring for truth in broadcasting - that includes taking/broadcasting information out of context and truth in advertising.
Agreed.
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