{"id":396,"date":"2007-12-14T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/12\/14\/interesting-what-we-don-hear-abou\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:47","slug":"interesting-what-we-don-hear-abou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/12\/14\/interesting-what-we-don-hear-abou\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting what we don&#39;t hear about sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ownership5dec05,1,5906399.story?coll=la-headlines-business\">major vote<\/a> in the US Senate next week, which could decide whether a handful of large media corporations will be allowed to get even larger. But you haven&#8217;t seen much about it in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know that sitting here in Canada, we don&#8217;t have to worry about anything like that, now that Conrad Black is going to jail and Izzy Asper is gone. But still&#8230;should we be worried?<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people think so. And some of them have put together a video to rally support against the plans for consolidation. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw\">video<\/a>, with an introduction from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/junk-news-is-making-us-sick-video\/\">MediaChannel.org<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Powerful U.S. Senators from both parties berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation across America on December 18th. And Martin didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to stand firm when you\u2019re a Bush operative with the backing of the White House and a seven digit paycheck waiting for you when you quit your job.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition to media titans like Rupert Murdoch buying up more media is a reaction to the pathetic state of journalism and entertainment. To drive home the point, Free Press launched a 3-minute \u201cJunk Media\u201d video to sound the alarm, and rally opposition to the December 18th vote:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a major vote in the US Senate next week, which could decide whether a handful of large media corporations will be allowed to get even larger. But you haven&#8217;t seen much about it in the media. Now I know that sitting here in Canada, we don&#8217;t have to worry about anything like that, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}