FCC deregulates the media.

[Corey]

[Sufjan Stevens]

The word deregulate makes me cringe. Whenever I hear it, I think of how Ronald Reagan deregulated the airlines and the economy went to hell. I can't see any good coming out of this.

[mosaik]

[sandsleeper]

i actually just read a Safire article on this in the times the other day. it's ridiculous. now the big media moguls, who currently were able to reach and control about 35% of the audience, are going to be able to reach almost half the audience. this is gonna squash out all the little independent corperations that may just have given us a different perspective. the whole thing is a monopoly of sorts.

hopefully tomorrow congress will pass the bill that proposes to roll the percentage back to 35, but who the hell knows. so many of those congress men and women are already lost deep within those media moguls' pockets.

but yeah it's not like it will make a difference anyway, the only news sources i actually bother with are the new york times and bbc. and they're not going anywhere.

[mosaik]

the independent media will not be quashed. i give you...

THE INTERNET. 100% of the audience can be reached, and for considerably less money.

[Corey]

[Corey]

[mosaik]

[Corey]

Doug,

all seriousness... is the husband who punched his pregnant wife in the stomach a murderer?

[happening fish]

[mosaik]

[Corey]

I don't mean to pick on you Doug... but isn't that a contradiction?

[sandsleeper]

whoa... thread overlappage.

[mosaik]

sort of. to quote neo, the problem here is choice.

the mother has a choice. i'm all about defending choices. but the husband didn't allow her to make the choice. he took the choice away. he's definatley guilty of that much.

i need to think this one over.

[Corey]

The same goes to if the wife decides to have an abortion and the husband doesn't want her to... she takes away his choice too, huh?

[Corey]

[sandsleeper]

[mosaik]

[One-Eye]

What rights should the father have? They certainly don't have the right to dictate what the mother does with her body, so... insist that the unwanted (by the mother) fetus be transferred to a surrogate mother and brought to term? I doubt it. Face it: biology has rigged it so the father has virtually no rights in the matter. In order for him to have any rights, we'd have to legislate biology. But you're against legislation. So where does that leave the situation?

[Sufjan Stevens]

Is the father not supposed to want his unborn child if the mother wants an abortion, or is he supposed to let it go and wait for the mother to decide when she wants children?

Is the father supposed to want the child just like the mother does, even if the mother and father don't get along anymore?

Please answer.