March 2012
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February 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
congress burns america on a yule log
yuppers….
November 2011
1 post
CNN FIRES A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND THEN GIVES THE WORST EXCUSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Ok, so people are getting fired from CNN, why, well because nobody watches, and why would they?
But all jokes in the cookie jar aside, CNN gave the absolute worst excuse.
“We looked at production demands, down time, and international deployments. We looked at the impact of user-generated content and social media, CNN iReporters and of course our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and pro-sumer technologies are simpler and more accessible. Small cameras are now high broadcast quality. More of this technology is in the hands of more people. After completing this analysis, CNN determined that some photojournalists will be departing the company.”
Basically they surmised that, well everyone has a camera phone, so, we don’t need you anymore.
And, we don’t feel like paying you, when we can get Joe Schmo to give us the content for free, we just put his name somewhere, and yup, oh well.
Oh boy.
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
26 posts
FCC to Delete ‘Fairness Doctrine’ →
blogs.wsj.com
This is a story, most likely, you will not see on the news. Because they don’t do it anyway.
From the WSJ:
Federal regulators will propose removing the “Fairness Doctrine,” a controversial, if little used, regulation on political speech from the books this week, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.
The Fairness Doctrine, which has been around since 1949, required licensed broadcasters to give equal time to differing political views. The rule was introduced during an era in which there were far fewer media outlets and regulators wanted to ensure that listeners had access to both sides of political debate.
The FCC abandoned the policy in 1987 during the Reagan administration, saying it violated broadcasters’ free speech rights, but the regulation remained on the books.
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