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"Child advocate, Marc Klaas of KlaasKids.org is seeking help from the public in the form of an email campaign to the FCC in support of Trucker TV at Flying J rest stops in America.
Please take a couple of minutes to read the background by visiting KlaasKids:
www.klaasKids.org/pg-truckerTV.htm
To express your support, click REPLY, compose your message, click SEND. Your email will go to Marc who will forward all responses to the FCC.
Please forward the info/link to your all your email contacts or any individuals or organizations that you feel may help support this worthy cause."[/FONT]
P.S. Ad hasn't shown up yet so maybe I did something wrong. I'll give it a little more time and try it again.
P.S. #2 4 hrs later and it still isn't showing up after I fixed the email addy and emailed them to say I'd repost with the correct one. I don't know if they're sleeping in Detroit or what but I'll keep checking!
Thanks Lu !! Guess we'll just to keep trying. I know in the past, craigslist wouldn't let me post the same ad twice because it picks it up as spam. I assumed that their detection process was related to an individual IP, but am now wondering if it is based on detecting duplicationof ad content no matter whose IP it is coming from. That would suck !
PS: After you made your post, did you receive an email back from craigslist that requires you to click on their link in order to "publish, edit or delete" the post?
I first listed this w/craigs list at 8:? am this morning...it is now 7:45 p.m. and still nothing.
The 1st time I put it in, I hesitated when it asked for the email addy, (normally mine) but I over thought it and put in the one for Klass Kids thinking in this case, that would be the perfect one for them to use.
Immediately, I felt like that was probably a mistake so I waited a few hours and saw ads come on and on and on....and I emailed the craigslist 'team' or whatever, and told them I felt I may have used the wrong one so I would send it again with my email this time and we certainly were not attempting to run it twice, just felt I must have done it wrong the first time. So, that's what I did. I reposted it, adding my email addy and still....8 hrs later NOTHING. No return email, no posting, nothing. :banghead:
Sorry, I thought it was SUCH a good idea Sillybilly! And the whole reason I changed the email after a few hrs was exactly what you stated, that maybe they'd ask the ad to be verified or something. Anyway, I tried. Sorry!
I am waiting on an update as we speak.
As you may remember, in mid November 2009, I requested the assistance of the good people at Websleuths to prompt the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take action on a proposal to provide Americas long haul trucking community with access to broadcast quality TV during federally mandated truck stops. Before I report the results of our joint effort I would like to refresh you on the background of the issue.
Since 2006, KlaasKids and Flying J Inc., the company that owns and operates hundreds of Flying J travel plazas across the countrys highways, have aggressively participated in a case at the FCC in Washington, DC. The U.S. Department of Transportation requires Americas 2-million long haul truck drivers to spend 10-hours or more per day resting. We want the FCC to approve a proposal that will provide 70 channels of television programming, not unlike the cable/satellite package that we receive at home, to entertain and inform long haul truckers during federally mandated rest stops. Of particular note and with my assistance, we propose a special Public Safety and Alert Channel that will focus on the plights of missing persons and be the default channel that every truck driver sees when he turns on the television set while at rest in his cab and that plays continuously in the common areas of the highway travel plazas. More information on this important project is available in our winter 2009 online newsletter http://www.klaaskids.org/pg-newsltr.htm.
At my request, Websleuths provided hundreds of emails encouraging the FCC to rule on this issue. The emails were printed, bound and hand delivered to the office of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. When a ruling was not forthcoming we took a political approach. The offices of U.S. Senator Orin Hatch (Flying J is located in Utah), Senator Blanch Lincoln (Co-Chair of the Senate Missing and Exploited Caucus), and Senator Barbara Boxer (who represents California and KlaasKids) have made status inquiries to the FCC Chairmans office regarding the Clarity/KlaasKids case. The response to each inquiry has been that, The matter is on circulation, no specific time set for concluding the review. In other words, they have taken no action whatsoever.
Here is what really gets me about the inability of the FCC to make a ruling on this issue. The science has been proven through two rounds of extensive, thorough field testing. By providing truckers with access to local Amber Alerts during mandated rest stops they will be able to notify other truckers on the road and lives will certainly be saved. Truckers are hard working individuals who deserve the same rights and privileges as other Americans and right now they are underserved. Finally, as my daughters killer sits on death row he is able to sit in his cell and watch TV 24/7 if he so wishes. Giving truckers the same access to TV as serial killers, terrorists and baby killers is the right thing to do.
When President Obama was campaigning he promised, Change that we can believe in, yet here we are more than 1-year later and its still politics as usual in Washington, DC.
Marc Klaas