RE: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Although not specific to radio, I have seen (more than once) folks that are
generally not well informed on a subject sign a petition saying "do X" then
show up at a public hearing saying they would have never signed the petition
if the knew, and asking the decision-making body to vote "no on doing x".

Point being, misinforming folks to get petition signatures is (alas) a
time-tested method for generating signatures, and it certainly would not
surprise me if RFB did just such a thing to gain signatures.

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Doug
> Bassett
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:39 PM
> To: Luke
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro
>
>
> --- Luke <earthradio@getgoin.net> wrote:
> > All I'm saying is, if it's illegal for operations
> > like RFB, shouldn't it
> > conversely be illegal for corporations to control so
> > much of what's seen and
> > heard..after all, isn't this spectrum "limited?"
>
> You're comparing apples and oranges here.  I'm not
> going to get into the media concentration debate here,
> however.  It's been gone over ad nauseum here and
> elsewhere.
>
> I did find it interesting that in a letter to the
> editor to the Brattleboro Reformer published today,
> one of the signers of radio free brattleboro's
> petitions felt "manipulated".  The writer was told
> that the petition would not be "waved about to justify
> the continued unlicensed operation of the station".
> Other signers were reportedly told the same thing.
> Obviously these signers were misinformed, and it makes
> me wonder if the misinformation was deliberate or not.
>
> Peace be with you,
>
> Doug Bassett
> Brattleboro, VT
>
>
>
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