Shake up the FCC foward

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering whether it should allow big cable companies to get even bigger. We cannot let the cable companies get any larger. According to the Consumer Electronics Association nearly ninety percent of U. S. homes receive their television via cable or satellite. Cable companies are already too big, too greedy and too focused on their bottom lines to care whether the American public gets the diversity of programming and information it needs to participate in public life. We need to send a strong message to the FCC today and let them know that they should not allow cable companies to get any larger. We need the FCC to uphold the current rules that ensure a cable company cannot own more than 30 percent of the nationwide market share. Email them today by using our action center by clicking on the following link: http://www.commoncause.org/ShakeuptheFCC We need to contact the FCC and urge them to maintain the current regulation on giant cable companies for two important reasons. First, cable companies have been abusing their monopolistic status by raising rates at three times the rate of inflation. They have been raking in billions by forcing customers to pay for channels they do not want, and by controlling what viewers see, discriminating against independent programmers and new networks. Second, the FCC also needs to reign in these giant cable companies to make sure cable executives are not suppressing a particular political point of view or that they are not targeting all of their programming to just one demographic, catering to advertisers demands. These types of abuses often take place because cable companies are permitted to own both the program content and the sole means of distribution in the market areas they dominate. They essentially act as gatekeepers in terms of what programs get on the air. Allowing cable companies to get even larger would only exacerbate these problems. That is why it is so important that we get the public involved in this debate. Contact the FCC today and urge everyone you know to join us as well, in urging the FCC to keep their leash on the cable giants: http://www.commoncause.org/ShakeuptheFCC Thank you!

Time to Shake up the FCC