the leader of the joint the hotels church in new delhi who took the maori babyhood to free election ramona close of the maiden's hotels to leave that part was a leader road isn't sure if there was promise to pay for cash permits. life in moscow he says r.t. top stories now at half past the hour and the russian capital is exactly three months since an earthquake triggered the focus nuclear disaster and the japanese government on the phone from people in the streets angry over the concealment of the true extent of the crisis. in switzerland activists are struggling against a media blackout surrounding one of the world's most secretive and influential gatherings failing to shed much light on what we build the burglary is up to. a level playing field for all the southern russian city of sochi undertakes major

construction efforts to provide better access for people with disabilities ahead of the twenty fourteen paralympics. and iconic matter as it will be with you as the news continues next and half an hour from now in the meantime we take a look behind the scenes of the u.s. news industry. brooks jackson at least the fact check team for the anybody school of communications the revealed 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 phone. this mccain aide is part of a pattern. for

obama's actually proposing is a tax cut for most of us eighty percent probably in 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 that checking by news organizations in two thousand and eight has been better than in previous years you know still t.v. stations are making a lot of money from these t.v. ads we're seeing just on the press a bit 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 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 his her brand is very expensive. certainly electronic media is ridiculously expensive and that's the best way that everybody wants to my point is where and respect the first amendment is congress shall make no law bridging the freedom of speech and the fact of the matter is that part of that the meaning of that is that you can control the means of making a speech and 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 two candidates they spent seventy five

percent of their time fund raising for most candidates spent most of their time believe 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 nineteen ninety eight ninety nine there is a proposal that the networks provide. and there 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. of mine at the back we got an emergent you've got a real mess we've got a. server we've got out of good

material and i don't know it was six degrees below zero in mine on earth to january eighteenth two thousand to seven canadian pacific train cars derailed at one thirty am creating the worst and. 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 chief for film it was just a large cloud and it just appeared to be rolling towards a minor. car. on what your market but. i am going to. start including the needed his gas next

to it but it was at home inside the poisonous cloud of old wind in my driveway and one of the emergency work. i had my swat gear in the garage it is a pity my gas mask. and i got my family out of the the house now they were in extreme and. my kids were up for six and eight years old at that time how old is your daughter twelve to town and my kids are you be in the background so they were all concerned. and i know my wife has said several times that she was scared there she was either going to sit there and watch our kids die she can't breathe out there or i thought she was going to die in front of our kids. bad work them try going to the paper but going outside was the worst thing to do we are 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 our eyes and our know is in our throats everything was a burning burning burning their nerves in happiness to see. the windshield this is quite a place sit on the right so there are no gaps in tolls tom lundeen guide the families in. in his basement no lights no heat no information really on the radio you're doing. music dispatchers were advising callers to listen in to their emergency broadcast station or to reach. katie did the real dynamic a.b. but a full hour after the crash there was still nothing on q.c. j b ok or any other radio station play out over the radio which radio station had a radio stations are out of are they ever worth nothing on the radio or t.v. yet could be someone original bought it durable. here is actual footage from inside the patrol car that night listen carefully you hear the radio playing music. for.

america. there were eight commercial radio stations in my not six of them including q c j b had been bought by one company clear channel they were programmed from twelve hundred miles away the satellites i got the radio on. and just going through it all i pod casey g.b. 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 want what is your emergency my not

police tested the emergency alert system the week before but it didn't work that night and i won one one hundred three and costs 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 via telephone clear channel was consolidating all six of its stations into one building and had cut the line just one broken telephone line meant no one could reach anyone at six different local radio stations and i want to run don't think that there's a man down in his right we have the benefit of meeting him one night when i was just grandstanding from the room he was my first ticket i ever wrote to and we

became good friends after that i wanted terrorist in face that we are seeking a person who is unaccounted for it his name is johnny great 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 chris 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 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 starker mento k d n d who sponsored

a water drinking contest hold your we to win and intend to 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 are drinking on them are the new freedom from reactor one type of campaign that very sedate you know they say releases are not responsible the staff laugh this off take orders anybody if anybody dying in there. could be safely. please ultimately a young woman mother of three children who she was twenty eight years old i'm not mistaken. consume about two gallons of water. a lot of it you know for you ok you really do know what if we get too much water

and i have. a feeling you. know i did 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 for 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 giving licenses or they did have a chain of command and they approve this again 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 mind i did. in the

instance of rootlessness. not that i'm aware of. exactly what you mean by the. vice presidential candidate sarah hale and sure knows what it means 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 find out how one does channel or just stations license plaisance children 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 just secret word is ok to sion you just read. jane in a creek and steve wilson spent thousands of dollars on

a washington law firm to challenge you keep the peace license for violating the f.c.c. is news distortion policy so we filed a challenge to a license really based on the facts that came out in our case nothing new here we filed that 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 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 three broadcasters are supposed to act in the public interest it's the deal they make forgetting 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 either. 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 for 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 embark in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the building newspaper radio stations television stations a cable outlet. community there profits from go through the roof i mean this is stripped to. the position where you told me that that sounds like the market it would look good three of the five members there are sincere republicans they were all pretty much on the record so you can 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 in every hundred americans i don't even think that many people knew there was an f.c.c. law how to get their information to us but they did they were really concerned about this how was f.c.c. approved consolidation in any way 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 reversed and seems to suit and directed to conduct a do over that duel for 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 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 and they're not life thank you. it's all together. your. treasures and all of that. they don't treat you like an artist about the demise of independent producers in huh. he would however the days of independent producing taking his or her created these men on a series or movie of the week to completion is a thing of the past but 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 the republican members of the f.c.c. noted 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 out forms today's order amend 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 courts and they're hearing from citizens once again there's a new lawsuit from from a 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 preventing more media consolidation is a bipartisan effort i look this is not a course mission 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 a good supporter that israel 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 for you which i'm happy to report is now co-sponsored by every single republican member of the house of representatives and it is taking 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 battlers 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 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 don't use my license it doesn't matter if i own twelve hundred cars. i. don't have the right to do this on the public airwaves 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 for this kind of broadcasting. cheney he took 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 and station right here in tampa we had 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 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 clues are you i'm fine thank you i'm following up on our conversation of 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 that's if they don't even know how many they're getting very good banks. 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. they were having her and she said if you want to file a freedom of information act request to go right ahead so that's 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 had 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 distort the news. and then there are you t.v. piece of goods so i think we are going to be indicated on the finding of this theory 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 o u. s b. commissionaires final broadcast journalist of twenty years during a film about media issues broadcast lives on july sixteenth of this year i filed a freedom of information act request with your media bureau just 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 respond to me within twenty two days it has been four months i have heard nothing. the petition is to deny the 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 we the people then i have news for you we the people are standing up for ourselves as are you and we are right. now that's a good buy. we're taking it back in our school says the president is here and he says you need sleep in the sense. that you know last season the slaves were taking it for reporters that there's nothing zero two zero three single is good in government this morning newspaper they were a t.v.

series for all those are the phone companies. fighting for the internet before big media has to allow. we're putting up our own low power radio towers. remember the airwaves belong to us if we the people don't take the media back no one will. really. be able. to. see.

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