It's a frightening thought :
Government takeover of the media.
But having tightened their grip on health care,
financial services, and energy, it's only logical
that the Democrats should turn their attention
to the media.
Discussions underway
at the Federal Trade Commission
and the Federal Communications Commission
point toward a dangerous new effort to regulate
what Americans read and hear.
The takeover under discussion would apply
across the board to print media, radio and
television, and the internet.
The result of proposed regulations would be
nothing less than an end to free speech in America.
Under the proposed changes,
government would have the right to impose taxes
on selected media (including internet service providers
and internet sites) and redistribute funds to traditional
liberal news media.
Government could impose a fairness doctrine
on the internet as well as on radio -- thus forcing
conservative media to "balance" their programming
by including liberal commentary.
Government would also be granted a wide range
of options for subsidizing liberal media, including
perpetual grants of taxpayer money to left-leaning
publications like the New York Times and to
increase funding for "progressive"
media such as National Public Radio
and the Public Broadcasting System.
No wonder the Nation magazine has
lavished praise on the FTC and FCC proposals :
Based on its longstanding liberal bias,
the Nation might qualify for a generous handout.
In its recently published "staff discussion,"
the FTC maintains that big-city newspapers
and other traditional media (such as old-line
network television) have seen their revenues
declining and that, as a result, there have been
"significant losses of news coverage."
Since news coverage serves a "public good,"
it is up to the government to perpetuate these
traditional media.
Nowhere in its extensive discussion
does the FTC consider the possibility
that old-line media are failing because they are
simply out of touch with the American people
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/future_of_the_news.html
Fascism is correctly associated with tyranny
since nations that employ the tenets of fascism
almost always transition from a republican or
parliamentary form of government to some sort
of personality cult usually centered on an economic
"savior."
Fascism requires extensive state control,
and if this control is not centralized in a singular
personality, the results will be muddied and plagued
with excessive overlap.
Many envisioned President Obama
in this way prior to the election, and
President Obama certainly did not hesitate
to utilize workers' paradise imagery during his
campaign.
During an early period of popular expectation --
for "hope and change," perhaps -- the savior can
implement highly undemocratic and centralist
policies simply by ignoring the existence of laws
and constitutions that preclude this sort of behavior.
Before citizens and their representatives
have time to respond to these abuses, the
savior has already opened new fronts and
perpetrated new abuses.
It is the finger in the wind method.
If there are no outcries of public furor
for the scrapping of, say, states' rights,
the savior will know that even greater
violations are possible.
President Obama has done just this.
Shortly after he claimed the right
to fire the head of a private company,
Obama realized he could claim the power
to set wages in companies receiving bailout funds.
When
these actions were successful, Obama realized
he could then claim the power to set wages all
across the economy, even venturing as far as
attempting government mandates for company
perks like private jets or club memberships
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/american_jeopardy_what_is_fasc.html
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