i have an idea for making the election more fair

[SouthGeorgia61]

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[yongrel]

We don't deserve anything from the media. The media can do whatever they damn well please.

I, for one, will sign no position that attempts to dictate how another uses their own property.

 

[Kludge]

No.


You want to dictate what and how media corporations show on their privately owned stations?

 

[SouthGeorgia61]

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[yongrel]

No, what I am saying is if there is a demand from the people to show more fair coverage, then maybe this could be achieved. I know it sounds communsitic but isn't it also fair? I'm just trying to think of something to make the media more fair to all candidates.

Life isn't fair.

 

[nate895]

There has to be a qualifier, something like they've raised so much money. That way you limit the field at the same time as making it fair for everyone. I'd put amount raised at 1 million dollars the previous quarter, and if you can't make that, then you truly aren't a serious contender and no one serious enough about supporting you to give you money.

If you put that at the first 15 for President, Ron Paul wouldn't have been in that group because there are always crazy people who declare campaigns for President 3 or 4 years early and they're just average people, just a little eccentric.

 

[SouthGeorgia61]

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The media is privately owned and can do whatever it wants. They are spoonfeeding specific candidates to the public for a reason and will never ever ever follow a request like that even if you got 100 million people to sign it. An effort like that would be a waste of time.

 

[yongrel]

There has to be a qualifier, something like they've raised so much money. That way you limit the field at the same time as making it fair for everyone. I'd put amount raised at 1 million dollars the previous quarter, and if you can't make that, then you truly aren't a serious contender and no one serious enough about supporting you to give you money.

If you put that at the first 15 for President, Ron Paul wouldn't have been in that group because there are always crazy people who declare campaigns for President 3 or 4 years early and they're just average people, just a little eccentric.

So you would support the government telling people how to use their own property?

 

[Kludge]

No, what I am saying is if there is a demand from the people to show more fair coverage, then maybe this could be achieved. I know it sounds communsitic but isn't it also fair? I'm just trying to think of something to make the media more fair to all candidates.

Oh.... I thought you meant the government would coerce a news network into showing each candidate for around the same amount of time.

Demand from the people though - that's a very capitalistic idea, for where there's incentive, there will be action. Mass email/telephone bombs (edit: or a petition) sound like an acceptable if ineffective approach since The Media has more accurate and precise ways of determining how to gain the best ratings.

 

[SouthGeorgia61]

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[yongrel]

Oh.... I thought you meant the government would coerce a news network into showing each candidate for around the same amount of time.

Demand from the people though - that's a very capitalistic idea, for where there's incentive, there will be action. Mass email/telephone bombs sound like an acceptable if ineffective approach since The Media has more accurate and precise ways of determining how to gain the best ratings.

Ah, ok. I misunderstood it too.

I'm all for consumer action for change.

 

[nate895]

Personally, I'd like to see us start up our own news station.

 

[mmink15]

Personally, I'd like to see us start up our own news station.

There are plenty of means to get alternative media into a person's life, the trick is to bring it to the masses.

Chances are a news station that focused on substance would probably go bankrupt before it caught on because the majority of sheeple just want to know who's-wearing-what-to-which-party or what-drunken-teen-let-her-nip-slip-while-seen-out-with-a-new-lover.

Maybe I'm wrong. My apathy seems to be returning since I cast my vote in PA, I thought it was cured but apparently it was only in remission. Not that we should stop spreading the message, just the opposite. I think that trying to start a news station of our own would be counter-productive, we have to play the hand we're dealt and the odds aren't in our favor yet.

 

[nate895]

There are plenty of means to get alternative media into a person's life, the trick is to bring it to the masses.

Chances are a news station that focused on substance would probably go bankrupt before it caught on because the majority of sheeple just want to know who's-wearing-what-to-which-party or what-drunken-teen-let-her-nip-slip-while-seen-out-with-a-new-lover.

Maybe I'm wrong. My apathy seems to be returning since I cast my vote in PA, I thought it was cured but apparently it was only in remission. Not that we should stop spreading the message, just the opposite. I think that trying to start a news station of our own would be counter-productive, we have to play the hand we're dealt and the odds aren't in our favor yet.

Lots are sick and tired of that, especially those who vote. A news station that focuses on substance would do great.

 

[Alawn]

We don't deserve anything from the media. The media can do whatever they damn well please.

I, for one, will sign no position that attempts to dictate how another uses their own property.

I'm all for that but first I want to get rid of the fcc and stop letting them give monopolistic powers to the major tv/radio networks and prevent smaller companies from being allowed to compete.

If radio and tv was unregulated like the internet then we wouldn't have any of the problems we have now.

 

[ClayTrainor]

I'm all for that but first I want to get rid of the fcc and stop letting them give monopolistic powers to the major tv/radio networks and preventing smaller companies from being allowed to compete.

That is exactly the source of the problem right there. We need means for solid competition.

Therealnews.com is interesting.

 

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I'm all for that but first I want to get rid of the fcc and stop letting them give monopolistic powers to the major tv/radio networks and prevent smaller companies from being allowed to compete.

If radio and tv was unregulated like the internet then we wouldn't have any of the problems we have now.

The reason the FCC exists in the first place is to protect those monopolies.