Today's UC Review article, about limiting free press through centralized
control, is highly relevant to our discussion of local listserv
censorship. The plutocracy and its neoliberal ideology want the final
overthrow of the republic through a completely controlled press, locally
and nationally.
We've had list discussions, for a long time, about citizens transformed
into consumers. Rather than doing our duty as citizens, critically
thinking about issues and policies brought to us through a free and
independent press; the plutocracy demands that the people must be
controlled by marketing literature and propaganda only, delivered to us
through tightly centralized control.
That centralized control is exactly what ucneighbors represents and
delivers! It's exactly what Penn's UCD stands for! New assaults against
free speech seem to be coming daily now, but we've seen this ideology
growing here for more than a decade. Once we were trained that the so
called "free market" was God and there was no public good other than big
business , we forgot the reasons we have a first amendment and a duty as
citizens to protect it!
National suppression was called "the fairness doctrine" I guess
Cassidy/Siano/Lamond could call there's "the civility doctrine"
http://ucreview.com/former-nbc-legal-exec-warns-of-looming-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-us-p3282-73.htm
"...In 1987, the FCC unanimously revoked the Fairness Doctrine, with
court approval, after finding it had deterred news reporting on
controversial issues, and had repeatedly been used to suppress
viewpoints and help some officials pursue their own political
objectives, Dunham says...
...Dunham says requiring journalists to comply with a central government
agency's policy on how to report the news means those journalists will
no longer be free and independent.
"As the Fairness Doctrine broadcast history shows, the threat of loss of
license will deter station news coverage, particularly of controversy,
and the public will lose news and information.
If the broadcast press is not free and independent of government, it
cannot act as a watchdog for the public, which is its constitutional role."
Glenn
PS: The UC Review also covered the candidate's forum but Carol didn't
get that op-ed in. Their deadline is Tuesday, so that makes sense.
