Thursday, December 16, 2004

"Astroturfing" means setting up a fake grassroots email campaign. Looks like Michael Powell and FCC got astroturfed big time by a right-wing extremist group. The resulting censorship of television and radio has an impact on everyone else. Attention, FCC: You've got mail: "o refresh: According to Mediaweek, 99.9 percent of 'indecency' complaints to the FCC came from one group -- the Parents Television Council. This completely hijacked the process of viewer complaints, which in turn drove FCC Chairman Michael Powell to tell Congress people were outraged (except only a select, censorship-prone group really were), and the chilling effect of politicians being riled up was felt immediately in Hollywood. It was heartening to get hundreds of e-mails from p"

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