It is a clear indication that the former chair of the FCC seeks to find a controlling influence in the mass media. What the New York Times is engaged in is 'unprincipled.' They were strongly critical of the Powell leadership of the FCC and now we find his poor point of view on the very pages he once distained. What do you call that? It's hideous. Powell is trying to re-establish an influence. He's a horrible man and a member of a horrible administration and a horrible party. What's he doing writing for a newsprint that once held him as a contemptable American?
There was a report on a website citing how an FCC study was shelved due to it's stance in favor of local media (click here). The direct link to the paper is here (click here or link in previous article). If that report were to influence the 'trend' in media it could undermine 'control' of the Republican message. Since, Powell has been writing at The New York Times the paper has a tone that is oppressive in it's blogs and is made to proport how 'happy' people are with every aspect of journalism favoring Conservative views. The NYTimes is NORMALLY a place where one can feel safe reading the articles and putting forth an opinon, but, someone is pushing influence and in my opinoin is attempting to run a campaign to benefit Giuliani since penning his signature desires.
Look, Michael Powell believes in propaganda and controlling the media to influence elections. He was draconian in limiting freedom for years at the FCC and a lot of the garbage in television entertainment was influenced by his preference for Christian values while counting on pundits to write letters ad nauseum to the FCC as justification for his actions.
I find it odd that all of a sudden access to the New York Times is no longer 'Select' while they moderate comments that are only friendly to conservatives. There are minor comments insulting the 'pro-war' and 'exploitive economics of conservatives' on some of the blogs but that is only to balance a more substantial set of conservative entries otherwise. I don't agree with the change in tone of the paper and I find it insulting to the readers that have sought some degree of expertise in reporting within a framework of unbiased truth.
As a highly controversial chair of the FCC and one that made many unpopular decisions, I believe Michael Powell needs to take a back seat to promoting politics while focusing on being a better citizen. He continues to propagate an ideology of a president with a current 25% approval rating, the lowest in his presidency while the USA is trying to move on and find solutions to the incompetency Powell was a contributor. I believe he is hooked on being a powerbroker and considering the administration he was a part are such troublemakers he needs to remove himself from the craft of journalism and perhaps join the military, I hear they are taking people into their sixties now.
Two articles within 48 hours of each other. Here we go again.
When Giuliani Filled the Air, Pulling Punches With No One (click here)
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 5, 2007
So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC -- the one called ''Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani'' -- and whine and complain and get in his face without answering back?
Puh-leeze.
When Joe from Manhattan called in 1998 to complain about the city government giving special parking privileges to a white-shoe law firm, Mayor Giuliani emitted an audible groan into the microphone.
''Well, let me give you another view of that rather than the sort of Marxist class concept that you're introducing,'' Mr. Giuliani said.
When a National Rifle Association member opposed a ban on assault rifles in 1994, Mr. Giuliani really got annoyed....
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 5, 2007
So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC -- the one called ''Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani'' -- and whine and complain and get in his face without answering back?
Puh-leeze.
When Joe from Manhattan called in 1998 to complain about the city government giving special parking privileges to a white-shoe law firm, Mayor Giuliani emitted an audible groan into the microphone.
''Well, let me give you another view of that rather than the sort of Marxist class concept that you're introducing,'' Mr. Giuliani said.
When a National Rifle Association member opposed a ban on assault rifles in 1994, Mr. Giuliani really got annoyed....
Managing Up, Down and Sideways (click here)
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 7, 2007
AH, the heartache of the presidential adviser.
In 1966, White House aides found themselves precariously perched between apprehension of looming disaster in Vietnam and the need for candor with their boss, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Disaster seemed a safer choice.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was a logical candidate to speak the truth to his boss. Mr. McNamara told the historian and Kennedy confidant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in January over dinner and drinks that he regarded a military solution as impossible, according to Mr. Schlesinger's diaries, which have recently been published as ''Journals: 1952-2000.'' A sensible objective, Mr. McNamara told them, would be ''withdrawal with honor.'' Seven months later, the defense secretary was still publicly urging a widening of the war....
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 7, 2007
AH, the heartache of the presidential adviser.
In 1966, White House aides found themselves precariously perched between apprehension of looming disaster in Vietnam and the need for candor with their boss, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Disaster seemed a safer choice.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was a logical candidate to speak the truth to his boss. Mr. McNamara told the historian and Kennedy confidant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in January over dinner and drinks that he regarded a military solution as impossible, according to Mr. Schlesinger's diaries, which have recently been published as ''Journals: 1952-2000.'' A sensible objective, Mr. McNamara told them, would be ''withdrawal with honor.'' Seven months later, the defense secretary was still publicly urging a widening of the war....
I've had enough.
I have watched my country fight an illegal war while private mercenaries assassinated innocent and unarmed people in Iraq, with Osama bin Laden still living within the safety nets of Pakistan with a current dictator who is so entrenched in his own political wars he no longer concentrates on the mass murderer of the victims of September 11, 2001, a record setting fiscal deficit that Paul Krugman showed yesterday is reflected by the Bush Tax Cuts (click here), a country not yet secure from terrorism, allies battered and bruised by terrorists for simply being allies, unending rhetoric from a president and vice that committed genocide in a sovereign country that was absolutely no threat to the USA and I could go on and on.
I want my country back.
Michael Powell doesn't belong at The New York Times, he is mind pollution. He and the administration and party he is a part makes me vomit ! They need to take their personal vendetta against the people of the USA that haven't yet capitulated to their influence and wealth priorities elsewhere.
