IP: Prime-time Propaganda

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Glass [mailto:brett () lariat org]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:43 PM
To: farber () cis upenn edu; ip
Subject: For IP: Prime-time Propaganda


In a practice which amounts to government censorship, the Clinton
Administration has secretly been reviewing the scripts of the major
networks' television shows. If the messages sent by those scripts are to
Big Brother's liking, the network is exempted from a government requirement
to air public service ads, and can hence make more money on paid
advertising.

This Orwellian and unconstitutional practice in effect imposes a
conditional tax -- in the form of lost advertising revenue -- on any
network which exercises its right to free speech. See the Salon.com expose'
at the URL below.

--Brett Glass

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html