LINKS: Well, it seems no one else (at least in the comments) has pointed this out, so I'll take a crack at it: Jeff Jarvis blogs here and here about new potential FCC appointments. Says Jarvis:
"1115.org reports that Ted Stevens -- the twit who wants to extend FCC censorship to cable and satellite -- now wants to install one of his aides in one of the empty chairs at the FCC. This is war, people."
Except, of course, that it's not war, and it seems just a little too hyperbolic and irresponsible to say so*. The current course of the FCC might be bad, the policies potentially being enacted in the future might be unwise and fly against evrything people with common sense might stand for--Ted Stevens may well even be a 'twit'--but this is not a war-it's a policy disagreement. And if you're not going to be nice to the people who disagree with you, why should you expect them to be nice to you?
*If someone 'declared war' on TV for showing too much sex and violence, Jarvis would no doubt be all over this little bit of rhetorical excess, and probably rightly so.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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