Disfranchise 1 ) to deprive of the rights of citizenship, 2) to deprive of a privilege, right, or power --disfranchisement. The governments' granting of a Singular Class Interest control of broadcasting should be cited as, unconstitutional regulatory discrimination against the public citizenry that owns those broadcast frequencies. We would not license our public owned lakes, rivers, parks and other resources to private sector entities. Why do we allow our supposed Representatives to disfranchise us from access to our own public owned broadcast frequency resources?
Academic ‘Scholarly’ Sophism — endemic to “The Ideas Network of WPR”
First, I love "The Ideas Network," however; I am obligated as a broadcaster and listener to engage in constructive criticism. Claiming to program public affairs—public interest ideas that matter, and living up to those best ideals' standards, is a policy issue that matters to the public interest.
If you are not a member of the intelligentsia, your opportunity as a guest to express, valuable outside the box ideas, will be rather non existent. In this respect, “the Ideas Network” is little different from mainstream broadcasting. In respect to guests, this is also true of C-Span, the cable, and satellite public affairs network that we all appreciate.
My point is that most academics exhibit a bias on behalf of the hierarchy, and the thoughtful commoner is marginalized, with little respect given to the value of their ideas for mass dissemination.
Critiquing their broadcast format, and host/moderator responsibilities to the public interest of their audience and those calling to make a point or two, appears to be non existent. The listeners support the network, yet they are marginalized in the way the programs are structured and moderated. The points the guests make are seldom challenged by the moderator during the first half hour and the caller's only get a few seconds once a week to challenge the points made by any particular guest.
There are many ways to change this discriminatorily skewed formatting. Moving the program along, should not be the mission purpose, rather it should be to analyze the character of the matter in respect to the betterment of the public interest.
The Supreme Court has stated that; Money is speech. The ideas network is also guilty of transposing authority into authoritarianism concerning the airing of programming content. I will explain the various dimensions of these claims on the air.
Political Constitutional Correctness would require broadcasting programming content loaded with informative politico economic public affairs programming for the majority common interest of the, employee and small business operator audience. The economic wealth of nearly all countries resides within the employee and small business economic sectors. However, our present government licensing allows corporations to control broadcasting access and content to their sole advantage. Meanwhile, family farmers and other small business operators, and employees, that represent the huge majority of America's citizens, are denied access to the information they need to participate in the governing of their politico economic affairs. They are also denied sovereign access to broadcast time, which is a prerequisite to the opportunity for politico economic class interest empowerment broadcasting. All sectors of broadcasting should serve adequate quantities of high utility value political public affairs programming to all the major economic classifications.
The integrated convergence of radio and television with all forms of broadcasting delivery systems that includes satellite, cable, and over the air broadcasting stations. This presents an unlimited creative interactive content production potential for the major political affairs interests', of our nation and the world. This along with sovereign airtime access for the mutual governing public interest needs of the politico economic public affairs mass communication's needs of our homeland business operators, family farmers, and all employees.
The new high definition and digital technologies, (if not used for high definition), will now furnish from six to ten TV channels or around 70 Radio broadcast frequencies. There will be a marriage between digital TV and the Internet-PC. This abundance of new broadcast frequency channels opens up the sovereign content production and sovereign access time allocation opportunities, and should be passed into law by our elected representatives ASAP. This is the time for our government to put some of these satellites in orbit and make these public affairs frequencies free to all types of dish owners. These small dishes are inexpensive and can be connected to your existing dish coax lines. The opportunities for the production of interactive public affairs self government mass communications programming content for the genuine homeland public interest need will soon be possible and will be virtually unlimited in its scope! PUBLIC BROADCASTING CRITIQUE
Why no public access. Why should the corporate capitalist minority interest, (minority in terms of population numbers), be granted the government licensed right to monopolize and control the distribution of information to an entirely different majority politico economic interest class perspective. This is a gross discrimination in the government licensing, regulation, and allocation, of the most valuable and vital politico economic public owned resources that We The People Own! I firmly believe this raises legal constitutional issues of a paramount magnitude!
Now, there is a big push to get the government to sell our public owned broadcast frequencies to the big moneyed corporations thus forever relegating us to mere receiver serfs and powerless slaves in a world of unchallenged information control and political power of wealthy corporate institutions.
All news reporting at all levels should have sovereign substantive equity broadcast time access to broadcast to this collective interest majority and to report their majority political views and initiatives to their interest class, and to the general public! There is no question that the corporate capitalist interest class has near total sovereign rights to block all access by other major politico economic interest classifications and rule media access and content distribution, with an iron-clad sovereign hand.How would EBM help to sustain and empower our country and our people Empowerment Broadcast Media (EBM), will facilitate the development of properly informed politico economic policy making coalitions which will improve their ability to govern economic opportunity policy making for the members of all economic classifications; but in particular, for the lower three fifths of the economic tiers in all countries. Every economic tier will benefit from this mutually just win/win economic policy relationship equation. I will thoroughly explain in a future internet page how new monetary and lending policies, along with global economic policy reform will achieve these mutual win/win economic relationships.
We must all endeavor to organize these specific citizen political class interests' into powerful coalitions that can impact and move the broadcast mass media toward programming useful information content within all of these newly merged technologies and regulatory structures. Satellite systems are presently primarily selling their services to rural area based client customers that do not have access to cable systems.New targeted audience scan be reached through local satellite uplinked public affairs programming content. That is the high interest economic value content that will meet the civc and economic policy information needs of the homeland operating, small businesses, employees, and family farmers.
Satellite services could provide a genuine incentive to this broader spectrum of public interests to subscribe to their services. This would allow the servicing of all of the major information delivery system needs and wants, of their entire country signal coverage area. This is the name of the game for all broadcasters, satellite services, and cable operators. I know of one such service that has over a two hundred channel capability, yet only provides a fraction of that number of channels to their customers, and none of them provide access the production facilities and access channels to produce the needed information content.
The empowerment potential is virtually unlimited. What the talented creative human mind can conceive, the collective talents of the masses can achieve. When reality based information is presented in ways that illustrate the most creative options toward optimal benefit to all creative economic sectors of society, tremendous initiatives take shape and a new level of mutually beneficial human cooperative relationship existence is achieved. These new initiatives would give "The People Political Power" like nothing else could! We the People, not wealth or corporation power, should and would govern our lives and our world. The upcoming convergence or integration of broadcasting's new interactive technologies will produce an unlimited creative content production potential across the major delivery systems. Moreover, the cooperative convergence will lead to a productive synergism here-to-fore undreamed of!
This is a rough sketch of the broadcast communication needs of those major economic classes that are literally barred from broadcasting. It is obvious we should all work with the universal laws of balance and equity in all relationships that leads to mutual prosperity, health and well-being. The changes in our general quality of life and our empowered ability to govern ourselves more effectively in more equitable ways will exceed nearly everyone's wildest expectations. The Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) is empirical proof that we cannot get access to mainstream broadcast media to inform the World Citizenry of the horrendous consequences of these secret negotiations that will destroy the governing sovereignty of the people worldwide. There are major fundamental constitutional issues involved in these issues. It is time for you to speak out in the mass media and on the Internet concerning these issues.- Darrell Udelhoven
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