Penn and Teller - The FCC
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Penn discusses the FCC on the Profanity episode in season 2 of Bullshit!
He brings up the Thomas Jefferson quote that "A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have...The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
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Digital broadcasting may change it, but for now with internet and cable use replacing brodcasting, the FCC is close to irrelevant.
BTW, criticizing YouTube comments as if this is a high school debate club is passé.
Hahahahaha are you JOKING? They do them a favor, yeah sure, in fact that's the exact reason why preofnaity and nudity ridden HBO and Showtime get viewers, it's because most viewers hate nudity and profanity. The FCC tramples on free speech my friend, and if every cable channle could have nudity an
d profanity Showtime would have more competition.
Pretty simple concept. Since the Big Media conglomerates own both broadcast and cable/satellite stations, it would seem the FCC is a useful little tool to increase profits. Howard Stern's publicity campaign about FCC censorship immediately preceded his $500M move from broadcast to satellite radi
o. No lucky accident.
The FCC gave away billions worth of public broadcast airways to the Big 5 Mainstream Media conglomerates who already controlled what America sees and hears. That's the real FCC story, but as Viacom mogul Sumner Redstone benefited from that bit of corporate welfare, and he owns "Bullshit," you wil
l never see Penn & Teller talk about it.
Howard then got a $500,000,000 satellite radio contract. The FCC by censoring broadcast radio & television drives audiences to satellite & cable, where shows are allowed to use profanity and nudity.
Viacom mogul Sumner Redstone, not content to control TV, radio, film, & publishing launched his acquisition crusade on Google/YouTube last year.
We really do not hear much on Mainstream Media about who owns media and how much money they make. Mostly we hear about the religion of Democratic politicians (if not Judeo-Christian) and where they stick their penises (if not in their wive's vagina).
The reason they don't mention that is because the episode was about profanity not media ownership.
Viacom owner (and Showtime/"Penn & Teller: Bullshit" owner) Sumner Redstone did in fact get a juicy piece of that pie. I am so glad that a ruthless media mogul with a $9,000,000,000 net worth got a billion or so more in welfare from the US govt.
Ok, shills, come and enforce the lies in the video now.
Except now that we have the internet they don't have a monopoly anymore (although a monopoly is one person/group not 5 different groups).
Framing the FCC as "they don't let people say fuck on TV" is simplistic & obfuscating. FCC is a tool of the Big 5 Media corporations w/ a virtual monopoly on what we watch. The FCC gave them billions of $ worth of public broadcast channels for nothing.
Result: 1) Fox News regime propaganda, 2) not quite as bad as Fox News propaganda, 3) infotainment like Penn & Teller that echoes Fox News propaganda.