Celebrate A Win For Our Free Press Networks But Always Remain Alert For The Yellow Tinge!
Joseph Raglione
December 19, 2011
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, through the centuries our species has depended on the freedom to communicate ideas and concepts. The importance of speedily communicating our ideas has meant the creation and spreading of civilized behavior around the world. The News Media in our society has helped in the process of preserving our basic individual freedoms and also in preserving a small form of Democracy within our money oriented society.
Sometimes, however, the Media becomes the message rather than the purveyor of the message. Yellow journalism has refered, in the past, to the commercialization of the free press. When money pays the bills, News stories are often slanted to favor the people who pay the bills. Most Newspapers and Television networks obey the people who provide the money. The computer networks, however, became a free for all! Money had a hard time infiltrating and occupying and controlling the computer networks but that did not stop the rich and powerful from continually attempting to dominate and controlling the world wide web!
The struggle between an honestly free press and a press dominated and controlled by powerful and rich corporations continues to this day and a good example is your daily Newspaper. If you see full page adds for Gas burning Cars in your paper, you will know who is paying the bills for that paper. You wil also understand why Electric Vehicles and the Environment are not front and center in your particular News Paper.
Today, with the help of computers, our free ideas and feelings continue to fly around the world almost unhindered. I say almost because there is always some economic or political group trying to capitalize on the process. We need to keep the national and international Press Networks absolutely Free in order to express our opinions, our ideas and always the cold hard facts.
Joseph,
This is huge: AT&T just announced itīs finally abandoning its doomed merger with T-Mobile.
For nearly a year, we've been showing that this deal would have only meant higher prices, fewer choices and tens of thousands of lost American jobs. Free Press knew it; the Department of Justice agreed; so did the FCC.
Now even AT&T, its high-priced lobbyists and its fake grassroots front groups all must admit this deal is dead.
When AT&T first announced its bid to take over T-Mobile, pro-corporate cheerleaders told us this behemoth deal couldnīt be stopped. Many other groups and even members of Congress knew how bad the merger was but were afraid to say so. But we knew the truth and wouldnīt relent.
The result is the best holiday gift we could have asked for: the end of this disastrous deal.
Help us celebrate: Make a gift to Free Press
We couldnīt have stopped this merger without the support of hundreds of thousands of activists like you. You should be proud.
Enjoy this victory now, because our fight continues. Next year weīll be working to stop the carriers from spying on your phone and blocking your right to speak online. We'll be exposing the phone companies for colluding with the cable guys to keep your prices high. And weīll keep on pushing for real, lasting Net Neutrality protections for everyone — no matter how they get online.
Please give what you can to help us hit the ground running in 2012.
Thank you!
Craig Aaron
President and CEO
Free Press
SavetheInternet.com
Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Learn more at www.freepress.net
You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time.
Sometimes, however, the Media becomes the message rather than the purveyor of the message. Yellow journalism has refered, in the past, to the commercialization of the free press. When money pays the bills, News stories are often slanted to favor the people who pay the bills. Most Newspapers and Television networks obey the people who provide the money. The computer networks, however, became a free for all! Money had a hard time infiltrating and occupying and controlling the computer networks but that did not stop the rich and powerful from continually attempting to dominate and controlling the world wide web!
The struggle between an honestly free press and a press dominated and controlled by powerful and rich corporations continues to this day and a good example is your daily Newspaper. If you see full page adds for Gas burning Cars in your paper, you will know who is paying the bills for that paper. You wil also understand why Electric Vehicles and the Environment are not front and center in your particular News Paper.
Today, with the help of computers, our free ideas and feelings continue to fly around the world almost unhindered. I say almost because there is always some economic or political group trying to capitalize on the process. We need to keep the national and international Press Networks absolutely Free in order to express our opinions, our ideas and always the cold hard facts.
Joseph,
This is huge: AT&T just announced itīs finally abandoning its doomed merger with T-Mobile.
For nearly a year, we've been showing that this deal would have only meant higher prices, fewer choices and tens of thousands of lost American jobs. Free Press knew it; the Department of Justice agreed; so did the FCC.
Now even AT&T, its high-priced lobbyists and its fake grassroots front groups all must admit this deal is dead.
When AT&T first announced its bid to take over T-Mobile, pro-corporate cheerleaders told us this behemoth deal couldnīt be stopped. Many other groups and even members of Congress knew how bad the merger was but were afraid to say so. But we knew the truth and wouldnīt relent.
The result is the best holiday gift we could have asked for: the end of this disastrous deal.
Help us celebrate: Make a gift to Free Press
We couldnīt have stopped this merger without the support of hundreds of thousands of activists like you. You should be proud.
Enjoy this victory now, because our fight continues. Next year weīll be working to stop the carriers from spying on your phone and blocking your right to speak online. We'll be exposing the phone companies for colluding with the cable guys to keep your prices high. And weīll keep on pushing for real, lasting Net Neutrality protections for everyone — no matter how they get online.
Please give what you can to help us hit the ground running in 2012.
Thank you!
Craig Aaron
President and CEO
Free Press
SavetheInternet.com
Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Learn more at www.freepress.net
You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time.
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