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End Radio Coverage Bias of Recall Election in Wisconsin ...

Petitions, Politics ? By Nanette Curtis on May 31, 2012 2:51 pm

Target: Federal Communications Commission

Goal: Eliminate radio coverage bias by enforcing rule that requires equal coverage of candidates prior to an election.

Two radio stations in Wisconsin that broadcast on public airwaves are unfairly devoting more airtime to positive coverage of Governor Scott Walker than to his opponent during the current recall election. Broadcasters that use public airwaves have to serve the public interest. Providing more positive radio coverage of one candidate than another clearly does not serve the public interest and is in violation of rules governing equal broadcast opportunities for candidates.

The Media Action Center monitored two radio stations in Wisconsin to determine the amount of time each station devoted to Governor Scott Walker and his opponent, Tom Barrett, in the recall election. The analysis determined that the two radio stations, WISN and WTMJ, devoted much more time to positive coverage of Governor Scott Walker than to Tom Barrett. Over a week, WISN spent 60 minutes on average promoting Governor Walker and only 55 seconds on average on positive coverage of Tom Barrett. WTMJ spent 49 minutes on average on positive coverage of Governor Walker and zero minutes on positive coverage for Tom Barrett. Both radio stations are called ?News Talk?; however, they are clearly biased in favor Governor Scott Walker.

There are rules in place to ensure that candidates receive equal opportunities for exposure on public airwaves and WTMJ and WISN in Wisconsin are violating these rules. The Communications Act requires that broadcast networks treat legally qualified candidates equally when selling or giving away airtime. Both radio stations are effectively giving away airtime when they provide positive coverage to either candidate. Since the amount of positive coverage is much greater for Governor Walker than Tom Barrett, the two radio stations are clearly in violation of the Communications Act. The Zapple Doctrine requires that supporters of political candidates receive equal airtime in the sixty days prior to an election. Supporters of Governor Walker receive much more airtime than supporters of Tom Barrett, despite repeated requests from supporters of Tom Barrett for more airtime. Therefore, the radio stations are also in violation of the Zapple Doctrine.

Rules are in place to prevent unfair bias of radio stations that operate on public radio waves. When these rules are violated, radio broadcasts can have undue influence on the outcome of elections. It is important to protect the balance of coverage in radio broadcasts so voters can make up their own minds in elections.

By signing the petition, you will help urge the Federal Communications Commission to enforce rules to end the bias of two radio stations in Wisconsin.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Federal Communications Commission,

Two radio stations in Wisconsin are violating rules meant to ensure equal opportunities for candidates on public radio waves. The two stations are devoting more time to positive coverage of Governor Scott Walker than to his opponent during the current recall election. Therefore, these radio stations are exercising undue influence in the election.

The Media Action Center conducted an analysis to determine the amount of coverage two radio stations devoted to Governor Scott Walker and his opponent, Tom Barrett, during the recall election. Over a one-week time period, WISN devoted an average of 60 minutes of positive coverage to Governor Scott Walker and only 55 seconds on average to positive coverage of Tom Barrett. WTMJ devoted on average 49 minutes to positive coverage of Governor Scott and zero minutes to Tom Barrett. Both stations are called ?News Talk?, but they clearly broadcast biased content.

Rules are in place to ensure that political candidates receive equal opportunities for exposure on public networks. The Communications Act requires that broadcast networks treat legally qualified candidates equally when selling or giving away airtime. By spending more time promoting Governor Scott Walker than Tom Barrett, WISN and WTMJ are effectively giving away more airtime to Governor Walker than to Tom Barrett in violation the Communications Act. The Zapple Doctrine requires that supporters of different candidates receive an equal amount of airtime in the sixty days preceding an election. WISN and WTMJ have also violated this rule by giving supporters of Governor Walker more airtime then supporters of Tom Barrett.

I urge you to stop WISN and WTMJ from exercising undue influence in the recall election in Wisconsin by enforcing the Communications Act and the Zapple Doctrine.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

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Drug bans hamper brain research, says neuroscientist

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Drug bans hamper brain research, says neuroscientist
Bans on drugs like ecstasy, magic mushrooms and LSD have hampered scientific research on the brain and stalled the progress of medicine as much as George Bush's ban on stem cell research did, a leading British drug expert said on Thursday.

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93% Headhunters

All Critics (81) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (6)

'Headhunters" is a frighteningly well-made thriller about an amoral art thief on the run.

"Headhunters" is a bit like an Ikea desk assembled with your nondominant arm -- sleek and attractive, but likely to fall to pieces if you look at it too hard.

"Headhunters" will indeed hand you your head.

A cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie.

It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works - you can almost hear the pages turn as you watch.

The scenes of graphic violence are drawn out to the point where they overwhelm the story.

By film's end, we're deep into Coen brothers territory, with an extra splash of Sam Raimi-level gore.

a twisted and twisting take on the potentially lethal outcomes of male ego and insecurity, which find their greatest embodiment in capitalism at its most aggressive

Sleek and relentless, it's a provocative, darkly comedic thriller.

Suspenseful, wickedly funny and clever, Headhunters offers more bang for your buck than most modern crime thrillers.

"Headhunters" isn't a pretty film, and it doesn't always entirely make sense, but it races along like a man chased by killers.

The good guy in the Norwegian "Headhunters" looks like a bad guy, and the bad guy looks like a good guy. And that's just one of the ways this dazzling movie messes with us.

HEADHUNTERS is an exhilarating thriller with great visual flare, top notch acting, and a story that will have you so involved that you'll possibly have no fingernails by the end of it!

Like a Teutonic techno band, this thriller is both skillfully familiar and chillingly strange.

...a sordid blast of delirious violence, brutal corporate satire, and male inadequacy.

This is one funny, gory, high-class crime thriller and my favorite Norwegian export since 'Troll Hunter.'

Do yourself a favor and see this one before some Yank director gets it all wrong.

Headhunters is a slick entertainment with well-orchestrated chases and bloody shootouts, though its characterizations are shallow and sketchy.

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Home Elder Care ? A Look at the Advantages Involved

Family members watching their loved ones get older will soon have to start considering what type of senior care they will need to provide them. With the first wave of baby boom now entering retirement, this trend is expected to continue into the foreseeable future. In the past, two of your main options for sending your loved one to a nursing home or letting a family member care for them. In-home care may be a great option in today?s world.

What is In Home Elder Care?

If you have never heard of the homecare profession, then you may not know exactly what a caregiver does. You can find a homecare provider that will perform a wide range of services based on what your loved one needs. Your family member may simply need a bit of companionship or someone to drop in every now and then to ensure that they are fine. In other cases, people will need many more services performed for them. And still others require round the clock care because of deteriorating health and/or conditions like dementia and Alzheimer?s. Whatever level of elder care the client requires, and in home care agency is ready to accommodate them.

Some of the Many Benefits of Senior Homecare

If someone in your family is getting older, there are quite a few reasons why you should consider hiring a homecare provider. You should know that one of the main benefits is flexibility. Your loved one can be provided with any type of services that they are in need of. This is nearly impossible to achieve in a medical facility like a nursing home, simply because of the way these types of facilities are structured.

Another reason why you should consider using homecare is because of the cost involved. While an in home care agency can be pricey compared to doing the care yourself, it is still usually far less costly than putting your loved one in a nursing home. Many seniors have been financially draining after staying in a nursing home. In-home care can put your mind at ease if you are worried about the finances involved with nursing care.

Your family member?s quality of life will also be much better with in-home care. Most people would prefer to stay in their home if given the choice. You certainly shouldn?t be surprised to find this out.

Kristie Brown writes on a variety of topics from health to technology. Check out her websites on health care staffing St. Louis Park.

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Wi-Fi network names reveal Obama sentiments in your city

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Devin Coldewey

When you set up your home's wireless router, you might pick a name like "Devin's Place,"?or just?leave it as the default -- or maybe you'll use it as an opportunity to advertise your political leanings. "Voteobama," for instance, or perhaps "obamasux." OpenSignalMaps, a service that tracks and maps Wi-Fi signals, tracked routers being used for this purpose all over the country; you can?see who's waving their Obama flag in your city using their interactive map.

Their database has nearly 75 million Wi-Fi access points mapped, and somewhat surprisingly, less than a thousand of those expressed some political leaning, or at least one that mentions the President.

There is a regional bias, though it's not so strong as one might expect. New York is fairly pro-Obama:

While southern Florida is far more negative:

The breakdown was more or less even when accounting for errors, such as the erroneous labeling of a Wi-Fi name as positive when it is in fact negative, and that sort of thing. Internationally, there was much more of a net positive in Obama mentions.

The blog post also contains a snapshot of Buenos Aires, where there are scores of Wi-Fi names that support the president of Argentina, Cristina?Fernandez de Kirchner, and hundreds more that may refer to her (but are just as likely, perhaps, to belong to someone named Cristina):

Of course, it is a rather rough and crude method, but fun nevertheless. No one would use it for a serious indicator of the partisan status of any particular city or region, but such highly public displays of political views are still interesting.

You can explore the Obama and?Cristina maps over at OpenSignalMaps' blog post.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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National Assembly to switch to Welsh domain names if introduced

The National Assembly will switch to new internet domains .cymru and .wales if they are introduced, it said today.

Last month First Minister Carwyn Jones and Business Minister Edwina Hart backed a bid from not-for-profit internet registry Nominet for Wales to have the top-level internet domain names.

Nominet has now submitted the bids to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

It follows a decision last year by the body responsible for managing domain names on the internet to increase the number of internet domain name endings.

Today?the Assembly Commission, the body which oversees the running of the Assembly, said it would change its own web addresses to assembly.wales and cynulliad.cymru, if they were introduced.

Presently its addresses are assemblywales.org and cynulliadcymru.org.

Peter Black, the Liberal Democrat AM who is also the Assembly Commissioner responsible for IT, made the announcement during a Plaid Cymru opposition debate in the Senedd calling on the Commission to adopt the two domain names as soon as practicable.

He said: I have to say, having spent an afternoon at the Nominet headquarters in Oxford I was very impressed with the operation that they do have there, and in particular I have confidence that, as an organisation, theyre best placed to take forward the .wales and .cymru domain name.

Not only do they have the experience and the administrative base for the registration regime which is going to be require to ensure that this is successful, they also have the infrastructure and of course they have the finance and the resources necessary to make sure that if Icann, as we all hope, grants us the use of .wales and .cymru that theyll be able to take forward those domain names and market them successfully across Wales and outside of Wales and make a success of them.

He said it was also important that Nominet had stated it would open an office in Wales, operating bilingually, and would distribute any surplus income to good causes in Wales.

I also think its important in terms of these domain names that the Commission? takes the lead on this, because I do think there is a significant demand for the use of .Wales or .Cymru amongst the third sector and civic society in Wales as well as? amongst businesses as well.

The Commission does support the Welsh Governments application to register the top level domains and were very much interesting in moving to use these as and when they become available.

To this end we have already put a planning process underway to understand what is involved so as soon as practical after approval is given we will be able to use them.

Of course we have already known for some time we will have to change our e-mail addresses anyway, because as a parliament effectively we should not be using .gov.uk. Were not a government as such.

So part of that move will involve a change of e-mail addresses for Assembly Members to assembly.wales or cynulliad.cymru as well as changing the domain name on our websites.

Mr Black admitted there would be a huge administrative burden with any change of domain names with branding, loos, letterheads and business cards all needing changing. But the Commission would seek to make the move as painless as possible, he said.

Following a detailed review by Icann, the first new domains are anticipated to go live in 2013.

Nominet, which manages the .uk domain name from its head office in Oxford, has committed to establishing an office base in Wales to deliver the .wales and .cymru domain names, which could create up to nine new jobs.

It follows cross-party for Wales to secure online top-level domain name status.

Ms Hart said?today the Welsh Government had always maintained its support for the two names.

This has the absolute potential to transform the online world and also presents the opportunity for Wales to present its own top-level domain, she said.

We believe that these top level domains will bring benefit to the people of Wales, and? the research has shown strong support exists among businesses and consumers in Wales for Welsh top level domains and we expect there will be significant business take-up.

The new domains will be an opportunity for Wales to ensure were at the forefronts of developments on the internet, and put in a flag for us on the online map.

Well also be able to use the top level names to establish a strong online presence for Wales which should effect our national identity, helping to create a distinct Welsh brand online and promote ourselves across the globe.

A decision on the two bids is expected this summer.

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