Coming Soon: to a General Assembly Statehouse Near YOU! It's True, Media Changes the World every hour of every day. The maximizing profits to shareholders comes at the expense of doing a proper job of facilitating communications. Information has never been more profitable and ironically: information has also never been more scarce. We give for free to the Corporate media a license for free to fill our bandwidth up with commercial upon million dollar commercials. FCC commercial licensure of USA Airwaves is free: no administrative fee and plenty of tax write-off: free bandwidth for the chosen 5. The billions of dollars Commercial Media has spent on "K St. Lobbyists" to promote their agenda by purchasing elected governance is staggering. For the longest time it baffled me why commercial media [in fighting a mandate to contribute to a non-commercial citizen media] would go to the expense of spending an amount of money >25 years of what the their fiscal contribution responsibilities would have been? Money spent by Telecoms on "K St." in 2006 alone could fund Citizen Media operation budgets for an entire nation filled with PEG Channels: this is not about Telecoms shirking their civic duty so much as it is about a stubborn corporate determination to work Congress and Courts to claim control of information bandwidth to the Commercial Operators and COMPLETELY away from the People. We ask: what motovations are likely to be at work here.

The public debate withstood the Congresional assalt of Ted Stevens and just managed to C.O.P.E. To then turn and embark on a corporate imposed Qwest to Des Moines in an attempt to take back the General Assembly from Lobbyists... and we keep working... to rectify 25 years of bad decisions.

Most recent egregious federal legislation was the 2006 COPE bill introduced in the House by Rep. from TX [where the Liberty lights of Public Access have been out 3 years: replaced with 18% rate hike]. Congress attempt to enact the [Corporate*Opportunity*Procurement*Enhancement Act] is Un-competitive, De-grading, Anti-entrepaneural, and Un-republican AND Un-democratic! As the COPE-bill before it Iowa's General Assembly's "Bad Deal" SF 554 concerning fiber-optic buildout, 5 aspects of net-neutrality, absolute abolishment of any local control concerning the bandwidth- among other things like having to pay commercial rates for the Qwest flavor of bandwidth, equiptment, and interface. Passage of the COPE bill would have allowed Telecoms to continue selling yet another ten years of empty build-out. The same fibre-optic system Iowans have been paying for ten years and still do not have in their homes. I once thought this resistance was about build out, about the net neutrality issues behind the build out. But the money on "K St." has SO ABSOLUTELY dwarfed the combining costs of build-out with bandwidth and staff: Corporate NEED for this anti-regulation, anti-competitive, has a deep GREED connected to it. What are the possible motovations of anyone wishhing to disconect and control communications? We have an obligation to sustain a nourished an informed 4th estate. What we have is a spin factory. In ditching ethical standards [truth in advertising, equal-time among-all ballot cannidates, fairness doctrine] we no longer "face" the truth in our media: so much as shadow's of events and how they make us FEEL. It defys reason to tighten news bureau budgets and demand a rate of return: integral by integral Information Services erode as we take the spun, un-informed shape of convenient infotainment. A condition where Information is muddled and communication fails to reach an understanding in national moments. Such moments may cause a great public action or great public paralysis that may potentially bring great national shame and or remorse.

Communications came to the fore-front in the wake of the Titanic disaster: a rescue could have mounted if marconi-ops had kept to their post. Hearings were conducted to discuss bandwidth and shared responsibilities of licensure. Herbert Hoover claimed the media made “happiness machines” of the collective American mind and intended the FCC to insure that Americans receive news nutritious with journalistic ethic so that the public could chew on, swallow and digest truthful information and let insight nourish our inquisitiveness. Give the people factual unspun information and correct solutions are likely to occur or appear out of the ether from which so many ideas now come to us. Journalism is our only bloodhound of seeking the truth, in a democratic-republic form of goverance: a responsibility beyond stenography, ethically superior to cash oriented infotainment: as it is both expensive and required as a 4th estate check. What passes for news in today's Commercial Media provides only stark, simple answers for an increasingly dummy-downed American Dialog. Information can solve many problems: but we require the infostructure at commercial quality and capacity. By consuming a news that is factual it becomes nutritious to the body of thought (very expensive to produce) Without regulation, net-neutrality, and standards: We get what "They" tell us "We" want. And right now they are telling us that we WANT extremely inexpensive pop culture infotainment: When we cannot even choose it ala-carte. American Corporate Media perpetuates a sophisticated psycho-acrylic frenzy of simplistic views. In consistently pitting world events as either good or evil the news media serves not only to disconnect us from factual evidence it also disconnects us from attaining a tremendously interconnected global environment that could reverse alot of very bad stuff. However, Like a prevailing wind that shapes the island trees, the Money has been blowing along K street from the commercial news media into the Capital for 25 years: to silence people like me. As soon I will not be able to afford the 3 teir money scheme they have in store for us. This website will too be gone in the process of scattering our laws and regulatory teeth to the winds. Commercial Media by nature wants to sway you. Their profit motovation is built upon persuasive ploys that predict how each of us evolve into shopper-gatherer consumers of products and services they advertise, it's the commercial working of our sub-conscious in the medium. Without well funded, journalistally staffed independent news bureaus all across our land: we eventually become a society of un-informed pre-emptionists. [see Edward Bearnaise Sigmound Freud's nephew.] YOU the citizen should be heard by anybody who's representing everybody along the halls of the Pennsylvania Avenue beltway and General Assembly Statehouse. The absolute pity of laise-fair capitalism is that it allows for it's own people to starve weaken the middle-class of society. As the middle-class become beat down and disenfranchised, fewer and fewer citizenry remain able to exercise their powers to stop the absolute coruption.

A Call to Citizen Media

A Call to Citizen Media We the People of the United States can no longer rely on a de-regulated Commercial Media to deliver sufficient unbiased information required of a informed superpower. Corporate savings strategy has stricken our global vision with myopia and neglected the communications infrastructure into frailty. 25 years of voter complacency has lead the owners of commercial media to balk at doing the investigative work required of them to produce information for the people. De-regulation leads us now to a point in time when powerful corporate information services are vying with government in the courts, statehouses, and congress over the power to control the very "pipes" of voice, video, and data. Corporate Media have failed in their democratic responsibilities of delivering the truth to Americans; that our founders penned “The Freedom of the Press”.

Affiliate: Take part in our BANDWIDTH HEARINGS in West Branch Iowa 2007 Hoover as Commerce Secretary Engineer Fitted the Bandwidth to his TIME: TIME has now come for the people to once again be familiar with 4th Estate franchise law and a Series of Hearings to remedy just that are called: the BANDWIDTH Hearings. They are to embrace conceptual frameworks of regulation and participation, a part of licenseure for “public service, convenience, and necessity”, “net-neutrality”, and state-packaging of ala carte-basic services with bundles that must come standard consumer protection with STATEWIDE FRANCHISING. If funded with the will and the way the Hearings should begin this summer at 1 Downey Street near the Hoover resting place in West Branch, Iowa. That is why we at the Midwest Information Bureau are dedicated to raising the level of public dialog and promote fair, open, and meaningful debate. If you would like to join and or contribute please contact us at iowa@iciaus.com or make checks payable to "PATRIOTS" and send it to 206 Lafayette St, Iowa City, IA 52240 PATV is a non-profit 501c3 http://patv.tv Become a Public Access Television, Radio, Internet, Open Telecommunications Society Member

Photo: Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Hoover, seated. Standing, left to right, Herbert Hoover, Jr., his wife, and Allen Hoover.