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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't. welcome to the big picture. brooks jackson leads the fact check team for the anybody school of communications they 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 to be too instead of 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 cry. 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 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 a sayings owes the audience the viewers a responsibility to a channel a little bit of that money back into check and whether or not what's been said in those areas is true or not why can't we just ban all political television advertising because in one thousand nine hundred seventy five the supreme court ruled that money equals free speech. not when we caught up with congressman john to 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 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 you have to let people raise the money in order to be able to get their message out otherwise you 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 a lecture and the candidates they spent seventy five percent of their time fundraising can. most new place. and. where to go right. now we can stop those practices and suring the candidates by giving 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. 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. of mine at the back we've got an emergency devoted to real madrid we've got a. new rail over. you know america. we've got have a good 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 hydrous ammonia spill in history just outside the housing tract. a cloud of deadly gas was moving toward the town. mine our police sergeant dave goodman heard the call it went to take a look it looked almost like. something out of

a sheet or film it was just a large ward and it just appeared to be rolling towards mine. far. beyond what you've heard of it but. i am going to go. surgeon goodman needed his gas mask but it was at home inside the poisonous cloud. of my driveway i wanted. work you know yeah i had my wife here in the garage in utica getting my yeah. and i got my family out of there and now they were in extreme. and my kids. for six and eight years old at that time period are you twelve ok i love my kids for you to be in the background so we're all concerned. and i know my wife for six or seven years she was scared there she was either going to sit there and watch

our kids die she can't breathe ok. i thought she was going to die in front of our kids. we're going to try going to neighbors but going outside was the worst thing to do we're all over the president or we were going to and mike johnson fled their home and got lost but they got lucky and lundeen family rescued them and are no isn't our throats everything was burning burning burning near them happy is to see. when she only gets just fine if i sit down by each other and i'll get some tolls tomlin deem guided the families into his basement no lights no heat no information for you on the radio you're doing. music dispatchers were advising callers to listen to their emergency broadcast station or seriously. kitty radio nine candy but a full hour after the crash there was still nothing on k c j p ok or any other

radio station. out over to a radio station every day since there. is nothing on the radio or the t.v. should be someone to really go about it but there is. here is actual footage from inside the patrol car that night listen carefully you'll hear the radio playing music. heard it here over here. there were eight commercial radio stations in my not six of them including k.c. j.b. had been bought by one company clear channel they were programmed from twelve hundred miles away the satellite i got the radio on. just going through it joyful in case you g.b. who is the station for what at that time for emergency services only thing 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 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 my computer and cops aren't allowed to interrupt regular programming when they need to interruptions cut into advertising revenue only a president can do that. if we could have had somebody on that would have said stay in your home we would have yes we would have our lives would be much much better we have lots of health issues now because we were out in there 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 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. i don't want to or don't think there's a man down in his right way and i have the benefit of stop meeting him one night when i was just brand spanking new when he was my first ticket i ever wrote to him and we became good friends after that time and what is here is safe we are seeking a person who is unaccounted for and his name is johnny great big or no one has heard of him or seen. a good friend of my guy that morning. b. so what did the c.e.o. of clear channel have to say about all this 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 today 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 and for the contest image what we think you can you can hear it before you have to we. see why are we thinking like. during the show any number of people were calling in and saying look this is a dangerous stunt someone could die of there are people going to drink and all that one can do you think one can retire for one time became aware that there is a guy they say releases do not recycle the staff last this song off of a car if anybody is anybody down you know we've got to. get the face.

very very the way. we ultimately a young woman mother of three children who she was twenty eight years old i'm not mistaken. consumed about two gallons of water i got. a lot of it you know for you ok you will lay down wait wait. wait i do with water and i had. the feeling you. know i did this is what it feels like when you're surrounded. just hours later and her 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 licenses let's look at it to which you are entercom doesn't have the chain of command in which case why are they given licenses or they didn't have

a chain of command and they approved this oh yeah why are we giving these people or radio license why aren't we thinking about pulling some of these licenses away for . today most people don't even know we can challenge a station's license not one person and minor i did. you know for instance. or. not that i'm aware of i'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. but for a vice presidential candidate sarah tail and 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 a piece 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 words you're never going to find it the secret word is pick titian so you can just. jane a creep and steve wilson spent thousands of dollars on a washington law firm to challenge w t v p's license for violating the f.c.c. is 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 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 have 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 and i haven't seen any evidence of it. 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 work 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 building newspaper radio stations television stations the cable outlet. community

profits go through the roof i mean this is stripped down to one newsroom literally competition but you tell me that that sounds like democracy it doesn't look good three of the five members this is the republicans they were all pretty much on the record so you know before we consider any evidence i want to get rid of these rules that they got their marching orders but the public found out and rose up against us we understand we got about three million people's way into the f.c.c. that's almost you know one in every hundred americans i don't even think that many people knew there wasn't a c.c. let alone how to get their information to us but they did they were really concerned about this was 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. 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 the absences decision and directed it 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 it was artists will 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 in my life i think it's. it's all to do. they want to europe europe. all the treasures of not only don't they don't treat you like the lord is what about the demise of independent producers. holywood however the days of independent producer taking his or her

created this in 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 dogs 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 problems 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 of 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 preventing more media consolidation is a bipartisan effort i look at this is not of course they should we let multiple votes on both sides in the commerce committee when this was last discussed so that there were people on the republican side on the democratic side it's not support of them is no 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 do to the broadcaster freedom act which i'm happy to report is now co-sponsored by every single republican member

of the house a purpose senator and this taping one democrat would simply do this 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 there must require at least half of all broadcast licenses in every market to go to a local or 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 right it's a privilege and if i get caught driving recklessly endangering the public eye lose my license this it matter if i own twelve hundred cars. they don't have the right to do this on the public airways. take their licenses

it's a penny before you right now how many people here would like to see clear channel lose six licenses for this kind of broadcasting. cheney has her turn at the mike out at the f.c.c. hearing in tampa w t v t s 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 cause to search ops 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 pins and i licenses they have and also 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's who will send broadcast clues. 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 crowded thanks. 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 who would as she said if you want to file a freedom of information act or act request you go right ahead so that's going to

be the next step was in her all's the press and public can use freedom of information act requests to demand information from the government they have twenty business days to respond. in the meantime jane a creep 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 discourage the news the beauty reed sees and then w t v t said beds i think we were indicated on the finding of the serial 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 it had been denied panicky stand to the seat see. the. commissioner's final broadcast journalist a twenty year career and a film about media issues broadcast lives on july sixth of this year i piled the

freedom of information act request with your media your oath 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. if it tish's 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 me the people that mr you lead the course for are still says. it's a good bunch of. books. we're

taking it back in our schools and businesses you can just use the incentive for. them or as you know let things of the slaves we're taking it back for reporters if there's an earth easy route to use goes thirty three was clear government is more newspaper there were a t.v. series for the whole revive a free country and they. were fighting for the internet before big media circus roulette. where. 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. come. back and who. is the people to.

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