Saturday, September 11, 2021
Example of unified action
In previous post I lamented the total lack of united action in response to the 2020 holocaust.
Here's how unified action looked in 1947:
Part of the text:
Part of the text:
ONE YEAR after issuance of the FCC's Blue Book, NAB President Justin Miller rededicated NAB and the industry to the "no compromise" campaign to stop Commission inroads on freedom of speech through regulatory trickery. Recalling FCC actions during the year in the programming field, with results amounting to illegal censorship. Judge Miller declared that the freedom of speech issue constitutes the most important problem facing broadcasters today. Nailing down NAB's forceful stand against regulatory devices striking at the heart of the American system of broadcasting, he added: "Statements I made at the time of issuance of the Blue Book still stand without qualification or compromise." He reiterated his belief that FCC encroachments on freedom of speech which are based on occasional examples of poor judgment or bad taste amount "to bold steps toward Government domination which may eventually deprive us of fundamental rights." The Freedom of Speech Committee is engaged in the task of compiling statements by associations and organizations dealing with the subject. The project will require considerable time. Meanwhile the committee will resume contacts with the newspaper and motion picture industries. The three industries pledged themselves to wage a united campaign in the interest of free speech during a meeting at the NAB convention in Chicago last October.Note that radio and newspapers and movies were working together to slow down the government's invasive attack. This was bipartisan, since Hollywood was always pure D, local radio and small papers were R, and network radio and big papers were D. The Blue Book itself was mild by modern standards. FCC had always required a certain amount of public service and education, and broadcasters had responded willingly and constructively. The Blue Book advanced into the realm of second-by-second microregulation. FCC wanted to specify exactly when a commercial could be placed in each type of program, and gave dozens of examples of 'unsatisfactory' or 'irritating' commercials. Judging by a couple of later historical articles, the united and PERSISTENT effort succeeded. FCC backed away from the microregulations. Good old 1946. The moment when Deepstate rose from its bloody grave, reasserted the authority that FDR had constrained, and began to destroy the #WholeOfSociety. Some parts of the attack were slow, and some failed. The FCC's part failed because the entire industry WORKED TOGETHER.
Labels: #WholeOfSociety
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