Comment from bwakfat at TPM with places to email or write:

I agree completely. In fact, writing Michael Copps at the FCC now is a very good idea. He is acting Director and his commitment to the public good is beyond question.

You can fire off a quick email here:

http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/copps/mail.html

Or

File a comment here:

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/Upload/

They have a matter on their docket called:

Cable and Satellite subscriber options, e.g. a la carte channels – Docket 04-207

Which is somewhat related,

or send a real mail here:

Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554

Thanks Thera, this is a very important topic. Big business should be held accountable for turning our 4th estate into a cesspool.

I was under the impression that Fox paid for the teeVees

Thanks for that info. I’ll pass it along.

The link is to an AP article from 2008 that discusses branding and revenue generators directed at the ‘captive audience’ at airports.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726030/

I raised a big to-do at my hairdresser’s that switched from CNN to Fox. Finally they switched back. Will contact. Thanks for the reminder about this.

Do not miss this great Parody of Fox news!

OT sort of. Is FOX, or anyone else in the MSM reporting on this? They all were happy to have the hostage drama on 24/7 when it was an American captain held. All the surveillance technology available can’t trace these calls? I suspect there are some people in political positions that are profiting from involvement with piracy.
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” The Turkish sailors were swiftly overpowered and the 5,850-ton tanker was diverted to a port in Somalia, where it was held for two months while its owners negotiated a ransom payment.

What the crew could not know was that their ship had been singled out as a target by a network of informers based several thousand miles away – in London. Security officials say well-placed informants in the British capital, the world centre of shipbroking and insurance, gather so much detail on targets that, in the case of the Karagöl, they not only knew its layout, route and cargo, but had spent several days practising the assault.

The attack on the Turkish ship was a sign that the pirates have turned a regional phenomenon into a global criminal business that now reaches into the heart of London’s shipping community.

“They made regular calls from the ship to London,” said Haldun Dincel, general manager of Turkey’s Yardimci shipping company, who negotiated the release of their ship. The calls were made on satellite phones the pirates brought with them.

“We have heard this a lot. It strikes me as plausible,” said Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, of Dryad Maritime Intelligence, last night. “They are getting more sophisticated because they are funded by criminal gangs from outside of Somalia.” “

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..es-network