Saturday, October 09, 2004
The Day After
As terrible as Bush has been I am seeing a silver lining in his horrible administration. Apathy seems to be dying, tens of thousands of people have registered to vote and record numbers are volunteering their time and energy to get this jerk kicked out of office.
I believe we will win, but then what? To me we need to focus this massive energy unleashed by Bush's horrendous administration to prevent a repeat of what he was able to foist on the American public. Bad times present great opportunities for the ushering in of progressive ideals, but there is a real danger that we will go back to sleep once a more benign administration takes office.
A great deal of "ink" in the blogosphere is spent attacking the terrible job our media has done. Let's do more than preach to the choir and get organized to take back the FCC. Let's pretend broadcast media is brand new and figure out how to force it to pay attention to the public interest again. The airwaves belong to all of us the same way the air does. Let's revive the Fairness doctrine (eliminated during Reagan's term), strengthen limitations on media consolidation to force corporations to spin off media outlets, lets return to rules which restricted the percentage of advertisements allowed per broadcast hour (eliminated during Reagan's term). Let's take some of the money out of elections by forcing broadcasters to grant free time to our candidates so they can present themselves and their ideas to the public.
In November we will take back our government. In January lets take back the media! The future of the Republic depends on it.
GO!
As terrible as Bush has been I am seeing a silver lining in his horrible administration. Apathy seems to be dying, tens of thousands of people have registered to vote and record numbers are volunteering their time and energy to get this jerk kicked out of office.
I believe we will win, but then what? To me we need to focus this massive energy unleashed by Bush's horrendous administration to prevent a repeat of what he was able to foist on the American public. Bad times present great opportunities for the ushering in of progressive ideals, but there is a real danger that we will go back to sleep once a more benign administration takes office.
A great deal of "ink" in the blogosphere is spent attacking the terrible job our media has done. Let's do more than preach to the choir and get organized to take back the FCC. Let's pretend broadcast media is brand new and figure out how to force it to pay attention to the public interest again. The airwaves belong to all of us the same way the air does. Let's revive the Fairness doctrine (eliminated during Reagan's term), strengthen limitations on media consolidation to force corporations to spin off media outlets, lets return to rules which restricted the percentage of advertisements allowed per broadcast hour (eliminated during Reagan's term). Let's take some of the money out of elections by forcing broadcasters to grant free time to our candidates so they can present themselves and their ideas to the public.
In November we will take back our government. In January lets take back the media! The future of the Republic depends on it.
GO!
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