saluting the state. hungry for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome back you with r.t. live from moscow where it's not nine thirty on friday night playing it revenge or an attempt to provoke an ethnic tensions a russian nationalist icon is gunned down in the center of moscow about was a former army colonel and had sort of time for kidnapping and killing a chechen girl. a nato official says it's perfectly justified to target the libyan leader of france and britain continue their campaign against the president of syria . russia will resume imports of the e.u.

vegetables as soon as they're guaranteed to be infection free cards as well as nato as missile defense plans and moscow's move to a w t membership with all on the table during the latest high level talks. are not see we take a look behind the scenes of the news industry in the united states to stick with us . brooks jackson least attacked tech team for the anybody school of communications the reveal of misleading political ads coming from republicans and democrats alike just let me show you a few examples. well the obama ad. the fact is that corn and plant shut down because it made old fashioned cathode ray tube t.v. two that are being replaced by flat screen technology not john mccain's for. this mccain a it is part of

a pattern. obama is actually proposing is a tax cut for most of us eighty percent probably and a tax increase only for families making over two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year. actually we call this a pattern of misrepresentation a pattern of deceit which is something we don't often say jackson says fact checking by news organizations in two thousand and eight has been better than in previous years still t.v. stations are making a lot of money from these t.v. ads we're seeing just unprecedented amounts of cash thrown at political advertising in this election it's always seemed to me that a television station that's making them so much money off of these things owes the audience the viewers a responsibility to channel that little bit of that money back into check and whether or not what's being said in those ads is true or not why can't we just ban

all political television advertising because in one thousand seventy five this supreme court ruled that money equals free speech. not when we caught up with congressman john two little outside his two thousand and six congressional debate with democratic challenger charlie brown what campaigns are just advertising driven advertising is horrendous very expensive. certainly electronic media is ridiculously expensive and that the best way that everybody wants to use my point is where to respect the first amendment says congress shall make no law the bridgend of freedom of speech and the fact of the matter is that part of that the meaning of that is that you can't control the means of making a speech you have to let people raise the money in order to be able to get their message out otherwise you are effectively denied them the freedom of speech how much money will you be spending on electronic media in this campaign that is a trade secret it is an open secret that nearly three billion dollars were spent on

campaign ads in the two thousand and eight election and the candidates they spent seventy five percent of their time fund raising for most candidates most knew what race. and. where's the money go right. so we can stop those practices by ensuring the candidates are given free airtime that's a very simple thing the gore commission that was done back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine there is a proposal that the networks provide. and there licensees provide five minutes of airtime to candidates that went nowhere in any free airtime proposal means less profits for broadcasters profits that according to the f.c.c. top forty six percent. versus

mine at the back we've got an emergent they've got a real mint we've got a. new bureau over. new york and. we've got out troops material and i don't know it was six degrees below zero in my note north dakota january eighteenth two thousand to seven canadian pacific train cars derailed at one thirty am creating the worst and i. ammonia spill in history just outside the housing track. a cloud of deadly gas was moving toward the town. my not police sergeant dave goodman heard the call and went to take a look it looked almost like. something out of the sheet for film it was just a large cloud and it just appeared to be rolling towards a minor. car. on what your motivation.

i am going to. sergeant goodman needed his cast next week but it was at home inside the poisonous cloud over the end of my driveway one liner to where you know they had my last year in the garage and it is up to me like. i got my family out of there. now they were in extreme panic. and my kids. for six and eight years old at that time your daughter has twelve trickledown of my kids where you be in the background so they were all concerned. and i know my wife has said several times that she was so scared that she was either going to sit there and watch our kids die she carried out there. or there she was going to die in front of our kids. good bad work of them tried on the neighbor but going

outside was the worst thing to do we're all over the place we don't know where we're going to and mike johnson fled their home and got lost but they got lucky lundeen family rescued them their eyes and our know is in our throats everything was burning burning burning near them happy is to see. when she only does this find the place sit down bunch of there are no getting tolls tomlin dean died the families in. his basement no lights no heat no information. on the radio you're doing. music dispatchers were advising callers to listen to their emergency broadcast station or to report into a certain area casey did he revealed i can j.b. but a full hour after the crash there was still nothing on q.c. j d ok or any other radio station. over three hours what's already a system everything else a sensor. nothing on the radio or the t.v.'s should be someone reading about it but

there isn't. here is actual footage from inside the patrol car that night listen carefully you'll hear the radio playing music. or. hear. there were eight commercial radio stations in my not six of them including q c.j.d. had been bought by one company clear channel they were programmed from twelve hundred miles away the satellites i got the radio on. just going through a toy phone case in three d. who is the station for what at that time for emergency services or anything we heard on the radio was what time it was and the temperature what time it was and the temperature and that just gets old one forty one forty five to fifteen to twenty oh it was awful only the time in town that's all we heard over and over and

over and over again. and country music they were warm what is your emergency my not police tested the emergency alert system a week before but it didn't work that night and i don't want to hear modem three and cops aren't allowed to interrupt regular programming when they need to interruptions cut into advertising revenue only the president can do that. if we if we could have had somebody on there would have said stay in your home. we would've yes we would have our lives would be much much better we have lots of health issues now because we were out after twenty minutes because we didn't know what it was no one could reach the emergency broadcaster by telephone clear channel was consolidating all six of its stations into one building and it cut the line just one broken telephone line and no one could reach anyone at six different local radio stations i want to run feed there's a man down in his right way and i have the benefit of meeting him one night when i

was just brands going to new and he was my first ticket i ever wrote to and we became good friends or after that time i want to share martin face that we are seeking a person who is unaccounted for and his name is john great big or no one has heard of him or seen him a good friend of mine died that morning. and so what did the c.e.o. of clear channel have to say a model and you're trying to compete to sell your customers products which is our business we're in the business of selling our customers products and through our audience is the advertising that we sell we hope that we do accomplish then it is our absolute commitment to be a public service conduit to every single market that we're in which we do achieve in every single market that we're in. broadcasters can neglect the public in other ways take the case of intercoms radio station in

sacramento k d n d who sponsored a water drinking contest hold your we to win a nintendo we think some twenty people can turn the contest and miss lawrie think you can do you think you're a thief or you have to we. why are we feeling like. during the show any number of people were calling in and saying look this is a dangerous stunt someone could die i'm going to be hard on them aren't going to think i'm hungry diver one time. that they did the series as soon as possible the staff laugh this off they carter is anybody is anybody dying in there we got about i. could make a fairly. ultimately a young woman mother of three children we should twenty eight years old i'm not mistaken. consume about two gallons of water.

a lot of it you know for you ok you will eat out what it will be. too much water and i had. a feeling you. know i did this is what it feels like when you're surrounded. just hours later and her strange diet. the family's attorney asked the f.c.c. to take the radio station's license away but two years later the f.c.c. has done nothing with that intercom station instead it has rewarded intercourse with fourteen additional station licenses let's look at it to which your entercom doesn't have the chain of command in which case why are they given licenses or they did have a chain of command and they approve this but yeah why are we giving these people or radio license why aren't we thinking about pulling some of these licenses away from them. today most people don't even know we can challenge

a station's license not one person in my not did. not that i'm aware of i'm sure exactly what you mean by that. for vice presidential candidate sarah hale and sure knows what it means that come january twentieth when i am sworn in as vice president you guys had better knock it off otherwise we'll have to get n.b.c.'s broadcast license. let's go to the f.c.c. is website to find out how one does channel or just stations license plaisance. challenge that gets us nowhere great you can surf around the f.c.c. is website forever but if you don't know the secret word you're never going to find it to secret word is pick titian to marry.

janie creek and steve wilson spent thousands of dollars on a washington law firm to challenge w.p.b. peace license for violating the f.c.c. is a news distortion policy so we thought of a challenge to a license really based on the facts that came out in our case nothing new here we filed that january of two thousand and five and here we are. many years later the f.c.c. has not ever gotten back to us with anything they've not responded they've not sent us our thanks for sending your complaint we're looking into it e-mail letter nothing zero absolutely nothing and you understand the whole premise that the airwaves are a precious commodity there are very few of them so to get these licenses broadcast licenses for free broadcasters are supposed to act in the public interest it's the deal they make providing that privilege that's their mandate and that's what the f.c.c. is supposed to be overseeing i haven't seen any evidence of it. ok

time for a little more information about the f.c.c. five commissioners had the f.c.c. the president chooses three from his own party and two from the opposing party it was president bush who set the agenda through two thousand and eight in two thousand and three bush appointee michael powell tried to consolidate the media even further and wrote rules that match the times if they got away with what they wanted to do you can involve them in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspaper radio stations television stations a cable outlet. in one community their profits would go through the roof i mean if it's stripped one newsroom literally felt the pollution or you tell me that that sounds like the marker saying it didn't look good three of the five members of the r.c.c. republican they were all pretty much on the record so you even before we consider any of us want to get rid of those rules if they go their marching orders but the

public well and out and rose up against us we understand we've got about three million people to weigh into the f.c.c. that's almost you know one of every one hundred americans i don't even think that many people knew there was an f.c.c. the law how to get their information to us but they did they were really concerned about this how was f.c.c. approved consolidation anyway i believe we did our job and i believe we did it well but grassroots media reform activists had a surprise for him so when the f.c.c. clearly didn't listen to the american public we knew that it was our time to act and so with the media access project and many other plaintiffs who joined on to our case we told the f.c.c. that we would sue them and we took it all the way to the third district court of appeals in philadelphia the court of appeals in philadelphia were reversed and since decision and directed to conduct a do over that do over there the f.c.c.

had to hold more public hearings about consolidation be held six between october two thousand and six and november two thousand and seven it was artists spoke about corporate media keeping popular musicians off the air really is the travesty of it is all these bands and all these people that have grown up in these communities listening to those radio stations it's just gone to me that is just the most anti-american thing i've ever heard of them out life i think it's. a serious all together so. they don't like your your. treasures in all or. they don't treat you i don't lord as what about the demise of independent producers. what however the days of independent producer taking his or her created days in on a series or movie of the week to completion is a thing of the past in this democrats and republicans joined in opposition to more consolidated media but a competitor can start a local bank or

a restaurant you just can't go in and start a radio or t.v. station. because the airwaves are finite and not only are they finite. their own not by the seller but by the people but on december eighteenth two thousand and seven dog and republican members of the f.c.c. voted to allow broadcasters and newspapers in the same town to have the same owner allowing cross ownership may help to forestall the erosion and local news coverage by enabling companies to share these local news gathering costs across multiple media platforms today's order amends the thirty two year old absolute ban on newspaper broadcast cross ownership. last time the commission went down this road the majority heard and felt the outrage of millions of citizens and congress and the court and they're hearing from citizens once again there's a new lawsuit from radio and media access project and

a resolution to disapprove the f.c.c. vote by the u.s. senate we have visited this is true previously i think there is too much concentration in the media and the f.c.c. rule moves in exactly the wrong direction adding more concentration preventing more media consolidation is a bipartisan effort i look at this is not of course an issue we are both sides in the commerce committee when this was last discussed so there were people on the republican side on the democratic side it's not support of the initial not so with the fairness doctrine republicans are trying to make sure the f.c.c. can never bring it back so what does your legislation go to the broadcaster for you met with each i'm happy to report is now co-sponsored by every single republican member of the house of representatives and this taping one democrat would simply do this it would take the power away from the federal communications commission or to restore the fairness doctrine without an act of congress but there are new battles

yet to be waged time after time and hearing after hearing people complain about licensing there must require at least half of all broadcast licenses in every market to go to a local interest local control doing otherwise violates the public trust you bell and i like to say that broadcasting is a lot like driving it's not a right it's a privilege and if i get caught driving recklessly endangering the public i lose my license doesn't matter if i own twelve hundred cars. i. don't have the right to do this on a public airways. take their licenses it's can't even for you right now how many people here would like to see clear channel lose six licenses british money broadcasting. cheney returned her

turn at the mike at the f.c.c. hearing in tampa t.v. t. was licensed in january of two thousand and five my husband and i challenge the operating license of the fox station right here in tampa we have proven in court the top ranks of management engaged in news distortion resisting had cost us our jobs more than two years later we have yet to receive any response from the f.c.c. on the status of that complaint so why is the f.c.c. ignoring license challenges it's the only tool the public has to hold stations accountable i called the f.c.c. to learn how many petitions to deny licenses they have and also what's the last time they revoked any stations license i have been told it since one thousand nine hundred six virtually no licenses have been revoked at all and i'm trying to confirm or deny that the. primary it will send broadcast live how are you i'm fine thank you i'm following up on our conversation i don't know when it wasn't

a week or so ago in terms of the numbers of petitions to deny. somebody is going to have it mary i mean with all due respect the only people who would have it would be the f.c.c. but it seems to me that they're not taking positions to deny very seriously if they don't even know how many they're getting very good banks. oh she is not a happy with me at all. but she just keeps saying i've asked the question and we don't have that information and that is. they are having her water and she said if you want to file a freedom of information act request to go right ahead so there is going to be the next step was a girl's the press and public can use freedom of information act requests to demand information from the government they have twenty prisoners days to respond. in the meantime jane a grief finally got her response from the f.c.c.

as media bureau remember how for a queen to win her case the judge told the jury she'd have to prove the station deliberately tried to destroy the news the beauty reid sees and then w t v t said beds i think we are going to be indicated on the finding of history of the f.c.c. said they were confused whether w t v t distorted the news and in any case they would not be bound by some state court's decision her petition to deny had been denied any case stand t.v.'s c c. the. commissioner's final broadcast journalist of twenty years during a film about media issues broadcast lubes on july sixteenth of this year i filed a freedom of information act request with your media bureau just locking down how many petitions to deny broadcasting licenses are currently pending in front of the f.c.c. i also asked what is the last time any station ever had

a license taken away. by law the f.c.c. is to respond to me within twenty two days it has been four months i have heard nothing. of the fictitious to deny licenses are the only means that we the people have to hold station accountable to the public interest. if you will not stand up for we the people then i have news for you we the people are standing up for ourselves this is our year and we are. gonna take it back. we're taking it back in our school says the president is a kid just two days early and sends. an am original letter seems a little slaves were taking it back for reporters if there's nothing easy road to

use goes thirty three was good in government this morning newspaper there were a t.v. series for the whole environment where you conquer the only. thing worth fighting for the internet before big media terms whole lot. were putting up our own low power radio towers. remember the airwaves belong to us we the people don't take the media back no one will. lose. face the people.

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