PUBLIC AFFAIRS CENSORSHIP in broadcasting

Broadcasting Reform - with Darrell Udelhoven
The Real Political Issues & People Empowerment  Series  © 1997 - 2000

How Broadcasters Utilize Barriers to Censor Public Affairs Programming

The structural barriers of Institutions help broadcasters to keep the political and civic interests of the homeland business operators, family farmers, and employee class interests out of broadcasting. The result is structural class authoritarian civic affairs censorship at its worst. Nearly everything in the present commercial and public broadcasting structures including their policy making mechanisms  work toward the elimination of or dummying down of comprehensive public affairs broadcast programming.

Such a restrictive governing process is undemocratic and results in the majority class sectors being both not represented in the mass communication broadcasting, and therefore being greatly underrepresented as a majority interest class. This access requirement would also help check the awesome power of corporate campaign money contributions to fund political television commercials. A screaming example of how lack of money acts as a censor! Money and the access to mass media speech should not be allowed to skew a proper and righteous political process. It is time for "broadcasting reform."

There can be no self-governing democracy when there is no ability for the majority economic classes to mass communicate. We are on the threshold of a convergence of broadcasting and Internet technologies that could restore political affairs participation in our governing process. When will we optimize the utilization of these fantastic resources toward meeting the broadcasting communication political affairs needs of our citizenry? My experiences demonstrate to me that some; perhaps many or, even most broadcasters may want to block this emergence toward a democratic and cooperative mutual human resource empowerment renaissance.

Fulfilling the Public Interest, Convenience, and Necessity of the Broadcasting Statutes

What portion of the total broadcasting hours is assigned to civic or public affairs programming, that is conducted by representative advocates of their mutual politico-economic policy interests' from the above mentioned triad? The most important values of broadcast mass communications are not being given and opportunity to conceive, birth and grow to optimal fruition.

Circular mass communications in broadcasting is a resource essential for the major civic interest's that require an arena within which a genuine mass interplay exchange of vitally important self governance information is enabled to take place. This has to be an ongoing sovereignty access to broadcast airtime for these civic self-governing participatory activities. Citizens need this new public space to conduct their citizenship duties in a proficient and effective manner. There is, no convenient civil domain by which, to effectively practice self-government. Our task is too open the public owned airwaves to the civic need of their public interest, convenience, and necessity. The public owned airwaves should be, of the people, by the people, and for the people, rather than merely for commerce and the corporate world's agenda. Give me your comments on this task! More on this civic arena of self-government, very soon.

How great is the handicap of not being able to Broadcast your civic concerns, as a class?

The process of political and civic affairs is primarily conducted in the mass media of broadcasting. Does your economic interest class have sovereign access to the means to broadcasting's mass media power to communicate? Do you recognize the discriminatory consequences on your class interests' that results?

Is Broadcasting Visionary? - Maybe

Ervin Duggan, president and CEO of Public Broadcast System (PBS), was on C-Span2 talking about the future of public broadcasting. He laid out a very intelligent, foresighted, and visionary plan for PBS, that I am in full agreement with. He is for multiplexing the new High Definition Technology to provide a lot more channels to meet the circular civic affairs communication needs of America's citizenry.He is for a plan for more and better usage of Local Cable Access Channels.

I am also for Satellite Services to provide regional Access Channels. Mr. Duggan wants to cooperate with the idea of the cooperative convergence of the big three: Radio, Television, and the Internet. I am 100% for all of these initiatives, and more. Thank you, Mr. Duggan, for your genius of vision!

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