well you know without it it's like a look at the headlights pointed out it's six months since major ethnic clashes took place the sense of moscow from the death of the football crowd the other players you underestimate the truth about friday's murder national strike on a former russian colonel who served time in jail for killing a junction teenager going on. up there is trying to draw media attention to a secretive meeting of some of the world's most influential figures they want to build a bridge linking up to public scrutiny on the agenda he says can't remain unknown

and speculation mounts that the movement international monetary fund head and greece to save the euro on the table from other decks to win two games host russia city of sochi is getting major bracelets to make sure its infrastructure and sports facilities are fit for the paralympic athletes and spectators disappearance. next we take a look behind the scenes at the u.s. news industry. brooks jackson leads the fact check team for the ne bruce school of communications they reveal 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 corning 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 it is part of a pattern. for obama's 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. bachelor we call this a pattern of misrepresentation a pattern of deceit which is something we don't often say jackson says that 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 so much money off of these things owes the audience the viewers a responsibility to channel

a 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 the supreme court ruled that money equals free speech. not when we caught up with congressman john doolittle outside his two thousand and six congressional debate with democratic challenger charlie brown the campaigns are just advertising driven advertising a surrender is very expensive. certainly electronic media is ridiculously expensive and that's the best way that everybody wants to use my point is where and 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 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've affectively 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 but most candidates spent most of the water race. and politics where's the money go right. to 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 the one nine hundred ninety eight ninety nine there is a proposal that the networks provide and their licensees provide five minutes of airtime to candidates that went nowhere any free airtime proposal means less profits for broadcasters profits that according to the f.c.c. top forty six percent.

good might have been bad we've got an emergent competitor realm and we've got a. we've got out of material and i don't know it was six degrees below zero in mind on earth kona january eighteenth two thousand and two seven canadian pacific train cars derailed at one thirty am creating the worst and. anderson ammonia spill in history just outside the housing tract of the mayo a cloud of deadly gas was moving toward the town. why not police sergeant dave goodman heard the call to take a look it looked almost like. something out of the country for film it was just a large cloud and it just appeared to be rolling towards my no. thought

. behind what you are going to face but. i am going to go. surgeon goodman needed his gas mask but it was at home inside the poisonous cloud of mold wind in my driveway i wanted her to work and they had my fourth year in the garage it up getting my gas mask. and i got my family out of the. town they were in extreme and. my kids were up there for six and eight years old at that time how old is your daughter she's twelve down and my kids are you be in the background so they were all concerned. and i know my wife has said several times said she was scared there she was either going to sit there and watch our kids die you can't bring all parents or i thought she was going to die in front of our kids. bad work them try going to neighbors 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 guys in our know is in our throats everything was a burning burning burning their nerves in years to see. be blown up when she only does this find a place sit down and show there are no gets into tomlin dean guided the families in . his basement no lights no heat no information really on the radio you're doing your. music dispatchers were advising callers to listen to their emergency broadcast station or to report. katie did you feel nine candy but a full hour after the crash there was still nothing on k c j d ok or any other radio station with that theory out over the radio which radio station radio stations are. never worth nothing on the radio or the t.v.

yet could be someone original what it really. here is actual footage from inside the patrol car that night listen carefully you hear the radio playing music. for. america never break it up here ever there were eight commercial radio stations in my not six of them including c.j.d. had been bought by one company clear channel they were programmed from twelve hundred miles away the satellite i got the radio on. and just going through a toy problem case in g.b. who is the station for what at that time for emergency services or anything we heard on the radio was what kind 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 on what is your emergency why not police tested the emergency alert system the week before but it didn't work that night and i don't want to hear more than 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 that 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 in it for twenty two 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 in one building and had cut the line just one broken telephone line meant no one could reach anyone at six different local radio stations if i want to run think there's

a man down in his driveway i had. an affair of meeting him one night when i was just brand spanking new and he was my first take it i wrote to everything good friends after that i won what is your emergency we are speaking to a person who's are accounted for and his name is johnny great big or no one has heard of him or seen him a good friend of mine died that morning. b. so what did the c.e.o. of clear channel have to say a bottle it's and you're trying to compete to sell your customer 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 and. the 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 and for the contest you know which one do you think you can you can hear it before you have to we. why are we thinking like that during the show any number of people were calling in and saying look this is a dangerous stunt someone could die and there are people going to drink and all that one thing do you think one can retire for one time became aware that they can have a series is doing everything possible the staff laugh this off they cut or anybody is anybody dying in there we go about it i. did make a fairly i think that. the way. ultimately a young woman mother of three children lucius twenty eight years old i'm not

mistaken. consumed about two gallons of water. really come out over here for you ok you only down anywhere you see here you are you know too much water and i had. a feeling you. know either this is what it feels like when you're drowning. just hours later jennifer strange died. 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 my senses let's look at it to wage either entercom doesn't have the chain of command in which case why are they giving licenses or they did have a chain of command and they approve this but yeah why are we giving these people or radio license which why aren't we thinking about pulling some of these licenses

away for. today most people don't even know we can challenge the stations license not one person in my not did you ever hear the words i wasn't really listening or. not that i'm aware of. exactly what you mean by the. vice presidential candidate sarah palin was sure knows what it means that come january twentieth when i am sworn in as vice president you guys have better knock it off otherwise we'll have to get n.b.c.'s broadcast license revoked let's go to the f.c.c. is website to find out how one does channel or just stations license plaisance killen's 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 the secret word is titian to the degree. jamie creek and steve wilson spent thousands of dollars on a washington law firm to challenge w t v t's license for violating the f.c.c. is a news distortion policy so we filed a challenge to their license really based on the facts that came out our case nothing new here we filed back in 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 have not responded they've not sent us 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 interesting and i haven't seen any evidence about. ok time for a little more information about the f.c.c. five commissioners have 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 matched 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 and for owning a daily newspaper or radio stations television stations the cable outlet in one community their profits will go through the roof i mean if you strip down to one newsroom about anything or petition or you told me that that sounds like the market 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 even before we consider any others who want to get rid of these rules if they go on their marching orders but the public found out and rose up against us we understand we got about three million people to weigh in to 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 a c c the law how to get their information to us but they did they were really concerned about this not pauwels 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. career we 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 and the court of appeals in philadelphia were reversed and you have seen since decision. directed to conduct

a do over that do over there the f.c.c. had to hold more public hearings about consolidation they held six between october two thousand and six and november two thousand and seven the artist people spoke about corporate media popular musicians off the air really is the travesty of it is all these fans 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 all. it's all to do. you're a pretty. sure. they don't treat you like an artist about the demise of independent producers in hollywood however the days of independent producer taking his or her created this in an honest series or movie of the we 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 republican members of the f.c.c. voted to allow broadcasters and newspapers in the same town to have the same owner 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 problems. 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 issue 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 and preventing more media consolidation is a bipartisan effort i look at this is not a partisan 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 part of the losers. we're not so with the fairness doctrine republicans are trying to make sure the f.c.c. can never bring it back so what is your legislation to the broadcaster freedom act which i'm happy to report is now co-sponsored by every single republican member of the house of representatives and at this taping one democrat would simply do this it would take the power away from the federal communications commission and 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 here must require at least half of all broadcast licenses in every market to go to a local in first 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 don't use my license doesn't matter if i own twelve hundred cars i. don't have the right to do this on the public airways. take their licenses it's a penny go for you right now how many people here would like to see clear channel lose six licenses for this kind of broadcasting.

cheney take her turn of the mike at the f.c.c. hearing in tampa or w t v t it's licensed in january of two thousand and five my husband and i challenge the operating license of the fox on station right here in tampa we had proven in court the top ranks of management engaged in news distortion resisting had caused this 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 challenge as 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 why it's the last time they revoked any stations license i have been told that 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 sue wilson broadcast clues how are you

i'm fine thank you i'm following up on our conversation i don't know when i was 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 a position to deny her seriously a test if they don't even know how many they're getting very good thanks. oh she is not 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. there have who would and she said if you want to file a freedom of information act request go right ahead so that's going to be the next step was in her also the press and public can use freedom of information act requests to demand information from the government but they have twenty business

days to respond. in the meantime jane finally got her response from the f.c.c. as media bureau remember how for a creator when her case the judge told the jury she'd have to prove the station deliberately tried to distort the news the beauty ricci's and then w t v piece of goods i think we are indicated on the vine you're busy area 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 or petition to deny had been the nine panicky stand to the f.c.c. . commissioners time and broadcast journalist of twenty years during a film about media issues broadcast lives on july sixteenth of this year while the freedom of information act request with your media bureau to find out 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 sponsor me within twenty two days it has been four months i have heard nothing. they could choose to deny licenses are the only means that we the people have to hold stations accountable to the public interest. if you will not stand up for read the people that i have missed or you read the people are standing up for ourselves as are you and we are. gonna take it back. we're taking it back in our school system resonating with a team just two days in the sense. that in the last

season the slaves were taking it back for reporters if there's an f.c.c. rule to use goes thursday were as good or government as morning newspaper there were a t.v. series in the fall regarding their income people. who are fighting for the internet before big media controlling. the book we're putting up our own low power radio towers. remember that the airwaves belong to us and we the people don't take the media back no one will. lose. a stupid.

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