> Subject: An FCC Victory in the House
>
>
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> This isn't an email asking you to sign a petition or give money.
>
> It's simply a celebration of a victory.
>
> 75 television executives from network affiliates descended on Capitol
> Hill yesterday to prevent the House appropriations committee from
> voting for a partial rollback of the FCC rule changes.
>
> Because of you and thousands of others, Congress did something
> unprecedented yesterday. Republican committee member Frank Wolf urged
> his colleagues to vote their conscience, and stand up to the
> lobbyists. And they did just that, delivering a 40-25 vote against big
> media.
>
> Conservative columnist William Safire wrote in today's New York Times:
> "Here is what made this happen: Take the force of right-wingers
> upholding community standards who are determined to defend local
> control of the public airwaves; combine that with the force of lefties
> eager to maintain diversity of opinion in local media; add in the
> independent voters' mistrust of media manipulation; then let all these
> people have access to their representatives by e-mail and fax, and
> voilà! Congress awakens to slap down the power grab." (URL below)
>
> The rollback still has a long way to go, but this is another big step
> in our march to reverse the FCC and create a more diverse, independent
> and skeptical media.
>
> Your active participation is working. Congress is listening. There
> will be more work in the weeks and months ahead. Stay tuned and stay
> involved. For more information on media reform efforts, go to
> http://www.mediareform.net or http://www.commoncause.org.
>
> Sincerely,
> --Eli Pariser
>   MoveOn.org
>   July 17th, 2003