Obama wants to do more than just impose the Fairness Doctrine

Jackson Jambalaya ^ | October 21, 2008 | Kingfish

[prplhze2000]

Conservatives and Republicans fear the Democrats will impose the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio if Obama wins in November. While they rightly worry about the Fairness Doctrine, they fail to pay attention to other plans the Democrats have for controlling the media.

Under the guise of improving diversity and attention to local affairs, Obama explicity states his goals in a 2007 press release after an FCC hearing in Chicago . Here are a sampling of reports.....

"Obama Urges FCC to Reduce Length of TV Station Licenses By Ira Teinowitz of TV Week September 21, 2007 Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is throwing out more hints that the Federal Communications Commission would have a somewhat different focus if he wins the election. At Thursday night's FCC media ownership hearing in Chicago, an aide read a statement in which the Illinois senator complimented the FCC for holding the hearing but questioned some of the FCC's past focus on easing ownership rules. Sen. Obama said the FCC should reduce the length of TV station licenses and get more input, more often, on how well stations are serving community needs.

[prplhze2000]

Community Review Boards. Shorter license terms. Vaguely defined underserved audience. The Democrats want to do more than impose the fairness doctrine.

[KarlInOhio]

Why not just give a station or two in each city to ACORN. And not one of the crappy ones up around channel 50. They have to be single digit channels.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Conservatives need to come up with a name other than "Fairness Doctrine". When the inheritance tax was glossed "The Death Tax", it became a winning issue for Republicans.

"The Fairness Doctrine" doesn't sound like something a person should run against. After all, it says it's fair, right in the name.

[Para-Ord.45]

Consistent with his community organizing.

A bottom up Maoist type of control.

[massgopguy]

In Cuba you can watch Channel Numero Uno to hear Castro, or you can switch over to Channel Numero Dues where a mustachiod man in fatigues and mirror sunglasses will point his cigar at you and tell you by name that you better go back to Channel Numero Uno.

[DustyMoment]

It would be a delicious irony if the Obamessiah turned around and squatted on the very drive by media outlets that have taken every possible opportunity to get him elected. The DBM ave squandered every ounce of their morality and professional ethics (if they ever had any) on dissing McCain and ignoring Obama’s considerable list of negatives and questionable background.

[unspun]

Good catch.

Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Listen to this Interview of James Simpson, by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.

On Barack Obama's Marxist connections in Chicago

Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of [Marxist] Socialist 'New Party' In 1996

On Alice Palmer, the South Side's Marxist State Senator, Who Hand Picked Barack Obama to Succeed Her

More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:

Barack Obama campaigning with taxpayers' money for Raila Odinga, Marxist & pro-Islamist, despotic leader in Kenya

[pierrem15]

Local soviets controlled by dem communists will be extorting cash and censoring local TV and radio.

The Stalinism of "a thousand points of bite."

Does anyone here think this can be avoided without using at least some force when the media is wholly in the tank for communism?

[unspun]

A bottom up Maoist type of control.

Michael Klonsky: Barack Obama and William Ayers' collaborator, sharing the same small office for three years, working on the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Communist_Movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Klonsky

[Marauder]

I can see people getting around the fairness doctrine somehow, even if it means flying to Canada or the Caymans for the week and broadcasting on shortwave. I don’t know whether Rush is still on shortwave, but I remember he was at one time.

[ssaftler]

Thank goodness I have cable TV and satellite radio. At least there will still be something worth watching and listening to after Little Lord Obama changes NBC’s name to Pravda and CBS’s name to Izvestia.

[unspun]

important ping

[p. henry]

When they came for the broadcasters, I said there is no cause for concern because I still have talk radio. When they came for talk radio, I said I'm not worried because I still have the internet. When they came for the internet, millions cried out, but no one could hear them.

This is getting very scary folks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

ask someone who works in the broadcast industry what a pain in the a** license renewal is. Reams of paperwork and trivial documentation, a full-employment bill for lawyers.

[WOBBLY BOB]

“I heard it on the X”

[Biggirl]

Expect a new bloody civil war, with the seeds planted for such starting with bringing back the “UNFairness Doctrine.”

[The_Reader_David]

How about “Indirect Censorship”?

The point is to censor conservative views by making them unprofitable, since the opposing ‘equal time’ liberal view might as well be dead air as far as advertisers are concerned.

[prplhze2000]

fairness doctrine won’t matter. There will be a community review board monitoring the station and a federal rule saying it has to give coverage to “local” content that will be vaguely defined.

[Marauder]

This is getting very scary folks.

ObaMarx.

[mysterio]

The “fairness” doctrine isn’t fair at all. I hope it doesn’t come back.