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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (125172)	11/19/2010 10:27:08 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

How about Rockefeller wanting to kick FOX off the air while his wife is President of WETA a PBS station in DC

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (125172)	11/19/2010 10:29:12 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV): "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future." Besides the obvious free speech issue, there are are two additional things that are interesting about Sen. Rockefeller's comments: 1) The FCC doesn't have the authority to censor programming on cable television, since it isn't broadcast over the public airwaves; and 2), Rockefeller's wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, is the CEO of WETA, the public television and radio station in Washington, DC. So, a descendant of one of the richest men in history, who, for the last 33 years has been either governor of senator of one of the poorest states in the US, voices his desire to limit free speech, through an agency not authorized to do so, while his wife is the chief executive of federally-subsidized public television and radio entities -- because, in part, it would help "our ability to do our work here in Congress." Could there be a better illustration of the disconnect between our current crop of politicians and the public for which they serve? theneweditor.com