OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

27. Review of Mass Media News Companies: The extent of the news underreported by our media is astounding. All public news agencies have a fiduciary responsibility to report the whole news and the whole truth to the citizens. News agencies that only show selected/edited/redacted news to the public do the citizens a disservice. I call on the immediate revocation of the Fox News Network operating license for being a mitigating factor of truth; for no less than one year. Standards and expectations must be regulated or defined for the public good. I am not voicing censorship, or removing the freedom of the press. I am stating that should news agencies that promote opinion, must label the discussion as opinion. Furthermore, the use of multiple United States Flags in any televised news program must be limited to only one. I have been told that the Pentagon directly controls/owns most of our media outlets, should this prove to be true, then this practice must be stopped and criminal charges considered.

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The fourth estate is dead. How do I know this? June 9th, 2008, in the House of Representatives, Dennis Kucinich gave his five and half hour speech outlining thirty-five counts of impeachment of the executive. Impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. The following day, June 10th, this bill was reread into the House of Representative record. I followed this on C-SPAN. The house quickly voted this bill into the House Judiciary Committee where it died. No reason was given to any of the articles of impeachment, just a resounding no to this bill. Not one media outlet covered this bill. Not a single newspaper, television news agency, or talk radio talked about this historic bill. This is how I know, the fourth estate is dead. But I hope it’s not buried. For those who do not know, the fourth estate was an un-official fourth branch of the government. The media at the time of our government’s creation was in charge of reporting on the actions of the government. Today, the only way to keep up on the news of our own government is to continuously watch C-SPAN, for you can not rely on the news agencies to report on the actions of our government.

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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President - 1797 – 1801

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Television does not represent truth; it represents an amusement park, a circus, a carnival, stage actors, football players, it is the boredom killing business. Do not be tempted to believe the illusions television spins, the altered realities presented by boardroom executives. People worship television in that they emulate what they see, eat what they are told to eat, ware the clothing they are told to ware, and believe the political beliefs they are inundated with. Television is the conduit of mass mind reprogramming. The awesome responsibility of programming our minds is in the hands of people such as Rupert Murdock. Deregulation of all media must be the first priority. Ownership must never again exceed a standardized percentage.

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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States.