Media Alliance Protests Hate Speech, Sponsors Film Screening

This is from Media Alliance’s web page:

"Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance says, 'How is in the public interest to call other human beings …vermin? If I were a regulator whose job was to rent out the nation's communication space, I'd look into that. That's what we're asking the FCC to do.'

"'Common Cause is concerned when a few corporations own our media resulting in less local programming and fewer viewpoints being broadcast. More alarming, we are hearing more "hate speech" including broadcasters spreading misinformation, stereotyping, and fostering violence against certain people or groups,' notes California Common Cause staffer Emily Pears.

"Broadcasters say they have the right to exercise Free Speech, but Broadcast Blues director Sue Wilson challenges that assertion. 'There is free speech, and there is radio speech. The two are not the same. When the radio dial is opened up to all points of view, radio speech will be free. Until then, it is owned and operated for a political agenda. That must change.' Broadcast Blues reminds us that we the people own the airwaves, and that we do have the power to hold stations and the FCC accountable."


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