Wednesday, October 13, 2004

United Church of Christ and the media

Oh, yeah, it's evil for churches to pressure the FCC to scrutinize license renewals of local television stations. All they want to do is push conservative values on an unsuspecting public. They press for censorship and want to act as moral police on the marketplace of ideas.

It's evil.

Evil.

Evil.

And I quote: "The Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc. (OC, Inc.)
was established in 1959. Throughout its history, OC, Inc. has advocated for
persons historically excluded from the media, especially women and people
of color; petitioned the FCC to issue EEO rules; sought to guarantee
educational and informational children's programming; defended the Equal
Time Rule for political candidates; supported efforts to establish
low-power FM radio; protected affordable access to emerging technologies;
and urged strengthening of basic corporate character requirements for those
who transmit images and data."

There is danger in painting with too broad a brush. Die, Sinclair, die.

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