Ray McGovern with Eggnog, Plus Four Shows on FCC's Deregulation Plans

[Tom Klammer]

Ray McGovern on  Tell Somebody

 

 

At http://www.raymcgovern.com/, Ray writes:

 

"Bored with the perennial annual “getting ready for Christmas”?  Pour an eggnog and tune in to Ray’s relaxed, discursive conversation with Tom Klammer of “Tell Somebody Radio,”

 

-What really went down in Benghazi, Libya.

 

-How almost-secretary-of-state Susan Rice let herself be set up by John Brennan, who decided to get right out of Dodge rather than go before the cameras to ‘splain what the CIA had been doing there.
 

-How David Petraeus’s good friend Paula Broadwell spilled the beans, neither the Fawning Corporate Media nor the “shocked” Senators wanted to deal with it.

 

-Why John McCain and Lindsay Graham were right about Susan Rice, but for the wrong reasons.  Her record is quite enough to disqualify her; she has done enough harm.

 

-Are there no better choices for secretary of state than Rice and John Kerry?  Really?  Is the U.S. so impoverished in such talent?  How about Chas Freeman, but Obama caved to the Likud Lobby last time Freeman was appointed.
 

-CIA analysis: the 2002 (dishonest) National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq was not “mistaken,” but outright fraud...and they all knew that.  Miracles, though, happen.  The 2007 (honest) NIE on Iran played huge role in heading off a disastrous war, as George W. Bush acknowledges in his memoir, “Decision Points.”

 

-historical review on CIA’s birth defect; how it happened that the National Security Act of 1947 actually created TWO CIAs.  A structural fault from the outset.

 

Listen to the podcast

 

http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2012/12/ray-mcgovern-on-ambassador-susan-rice.html

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_12_11.mp3        

 

 

 

 

FCC's Plans to Gut Media Ownership Restrictions

On November 6, 2012, I came across a link to an article on the LA Times website about Obama's FCC chair Julius Genachowski's plans to ease restrictions against any one company buying up all the major media outlets in given markets.  From that article:

"After two failed attempts to loosen its rules, the Federal Communications Commission is expected by the end of the year to approve a new proposal that would allow newspapers and television or radio stations in the 20 largest markets to consolidate."

The two failed attempts referenced above were overturned in federal court with considerable influence of overwhelming grass roots public opinion.

After seeing that LA Times article, I contacted former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, a leader in the fight against media ownership consolidation, and had him on the show broadcast on November 13.  This turned out to be the first of four consecutive shows highlighting this issue.  Here are links to podcasts of those four shows:

Michael Copps on FCC Plans - Richard Tripp on Feeding the Homeless
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_11_13.mp3

Michael Copps on Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_11_20.mp3

Josh Stearns on FCC's Big Media Giveaway
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_11_27.mp3

FCC - Good News and Bad News
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_12_04.mp3