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Healthcare Views of Kucinich
Did ABC silence Kucinich?
Speaking out on Not for Profit health care is also silencing
him, he says.
Date: 1/7/2008 6:37:39 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 979 times
4:35 PM
January 7, 08
This Utube by Dennis Kucinich's team is well done.
He believes ABC silenced him from being part of the
New Hampshire Debates.
Bill Moyers interviewed Kucinich last Friday
on PBS.
Dennis Kucinick is a very intelligence voice.
Utube:
Contains a well done Internet ad
made by a volunteer.
Gives a good understanding of the
what has been happening...as far as
Conventional Media Blackout of
Kucinich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0MFiceafq4
Here are some quotes I like from
Dennis Kucinich with Bill Moyer
January 4, 08:
Conventional TV Technology
vs. Internet Based Technology.
They are clashing.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01042008/watch3.html
ON Not for Profit Healthcare:
ENNIS KUCINICH: Think about this. I'm the only candidate in either party who's saying that with 47 million Americans uninsured, another 50 million Americans underinsured, it's time for us to go to a not-for-profit system. That would cost the for-profit system hundreds of billions of dollars. And so, you know, I'm the only voice on that. And, frankly, I think I'm the voice of the mainstream in America in asserting that. And that point was not given a chance to be expressed. As a matter of fact, the AARP--
What does change mean,
he asks.
DENNIS KUCINICH: People say you want change, I can give you change for a dollar, you know, if I have it. But the point is real change, transformational change in our society means looking at the engines of our society which has caused wealth to accelerate upwards such as, you know, the military spending, $500 billion budget, borrowing money from China to keep a war going, our trade deficit which is driven by a desire to shift jobs out of this country seeking low wages in places where there are no human rights and environment quality principles or workers' rights, and by energy policies which accelerate the wealth upwards. I think that a more equitable distribution of the wealth ought to be consistent with the message of the Democratic Party. Yet twice, Bill, in two- party platform meetings, I wasn't able to get a not-for-profit healthcare system in the Democratic Party platform in 2000, 2004 because of the hold these insurance companies have on the process.
On the Media:
DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, you have to realize that the media, you know, first of all, the media's not a monolith. I mean, we're here. You're part of the media. And I'm glad for it to have this opportunity. But I think that we have to, first of all, cause media corporations to divest of any other interests. Media ought to just be media.
Media shouldn't be Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Media shouldn't be defense contractors, okay? Media should be media. And when the media has the responsibility, it has to adhere to the principles outlined in the Federal Communication Act of 1934. They should serve in the public interest, convenience, and necessity. And that measure has often been lost.
More on Media
BILL MOYERS: Yet all your career you've been up against the mainstream media.
DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, you know, - Bill, I could have chosen a role a long time ago to support the status quo and take the fast route to political success. And I was mayor of Cleveland 30 years ago. I could have sold a city's municipal electronic system and been on a fast track to a governorship at age 32, 33. But you know what? I represent the public interest. And the media often, you know, is supporting private interest groups which are also called-- sometimes called advertisers and also called other corporate connections. And you know what? We've got to have media reform in this country because, otherwise, we're never going to really feel the full expression of the power of the First Amendment.
The electronic broadcast media is licensed to, you know, and to operate the airwaves in a public trust for the public. They don't own those airwaves. And we have an obligation to expect that they're going to function in the public interest. And when they don't, there has to be some changes.
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