They need to show us just how small of a group of old assholes is buying tons of air time to push their crappy anti-American agendas.

So of course all the media companies will cry about it, they are told to make some noise so the rape rape of the nation can continue without interruption.

Weaver95: The FCC has proposed fixing that by requiring broadcasters to post online the details of political ad purchases, including the identity of the buyer and the price.



I don't have a problem with this.

Ironic that news media is moving to suppress.
Naive to assume it's out of the norm.

fta: As we have recently detailed, political ad data is public by law but not easy to get because it is kept only in paper files at each station.

Reminded me of...

But the plans were on display . . ."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

Transparency is all well and good but it's the rules allowing overly high media ownership consolidation in America that need to be discussed and changed

New anti-trust laws need to be crafted.

They won't any time soon, of course, but they need to be.

We need to stop focusing on the amount of campaign money being raised and instead look at it as the amount of money being spent. Elections have become a multi-billion dollar industry. The media loves it because of the hundreds of millions spent on advertising. Elections are a money maker for them thus the non-stop coverage. They have a vested interest in making sure this source of income keeps flowing so they have no reason to support any regulations that could reduce the amount of money spent on elections.

Amazing how few comments there are on this topic.

We are are weeks away from Idiocracy being a reality.

Paper files at each station.. probably in a back closet, where few people who work there know they exist. Yeah, that's useless.

You don't want everyone to know your price? Don't be such whores.

I spent 16 years doing video production in a cable ad-sales department. Any network rep who thinks their competitors don't already know their pricing structure is either brand new, or such a doe-eyed babe in the woods that they're not long for the business.

And, of course, the "major media outlets" won't be reporting on this.

Thank goodness we live in The Future.