Earlier today, Free Press issued a release concerning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote tomorrow - 18 December 2007 - that may allow the largest companies to swallow [infect] more local media outlets across the United States. For obvious reasons, there has been a public outcry over the planned vote - initiated by FCC chairman Kevin Martin.
I’m not a citizen of the US, but this is still a pretty big deal. Corporate America has been eating away at the soul of the US Constitution and this would be one more bite.
Control of the media has become a weapon for Corporate America and the means of information has thus become narrow and tightly controlled. The well-oiled machine [Corporate America] directed the US military into Iraq because of information control and distribution. The mass population never did receive the whole story. That’s how and why the White House became so caught up in its web of lies - it was coaxed into a war that was not meant to be.
So do yourself a favour - do your country a favour - and check out what is going on with the media in the US. It is not as free as you’d think.
