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An Open Letter To Ted Turner, Rupert Murdock and Other Media Moguls
5/29/2003 8:33:00 AM
by Mel Hathorn
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| This is argument stating that it makes no difference what the outcome of the FCC decision regarding relaxation of the rules of media ownership is. |
An Open Letter to Ted Turner, Rupert Murdock and other media moguls:
By Melvin Hathorn
As I write this there is great controversy over the relaxation of the rules that restrict media ownership. Although many have serious concerns about the damage to the free flow of information that would result from such a relaxation, I believe that it really makes no difference. So let the FCC relax media ownership rules. For you see, NO ONE BELIEVES YOU!
You portray George Bush in his flight suit strutting around the flight deck of aircraft carrier like a peacock displaying his full plumage and we recognize spin. You fail to ask questions of the powerful that the public is asking among themselves and we recognize your cover-up. The great reporters of the past, Edward R. Morrow, Walter Winchel and Walter Cronkite are of another age and era. Now we have Entertainment TV and Inside Edition. Therefore, NO ONE BELIEVES YOU!
Nobody believes you because you’ve already lost whatever bit of credibility you have had. You have traded whatever sense of ethics and responsibility you‘ve once had to provide honest reporting and quality programming for a quick buck. The swill that you feed us, Jerry Springer, Reality TV, etc., I would not feed to the hogs that produce my morning bacon. This swill is not fit for the swine of Gerasenes. Swill that the Prodigal Son would reject. SO NO ONE RESPECTS YOU ANYWAY!
I suppose that there are a few unenlightened souls still chained to the back of Plato’s cave who continue to believe in the reality of your reflected shadows and illusions. But these few misguided souls are rapidly dwindling and soon all your profits and quick bucks will dwindle along with them. Because NO ONE RESPECTS YOU!
So let the FCC relax media rules; it will not make any difference. Because WE NEITHER RESPECT OR BELIEVE YOU!
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