Posted on 09/15/2009 6:36:27 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, drew up a "First Amendment New Deal," a new "fairness doctrine" that would include the establishment of a panel of "nonpartisan experts" to ensure "diversity of view" on the airwaves, WND has learned.
Sunstein compared the need for the government to regulate broadcasting to the moral obligation of the U.S. to impose new rules that outlawed segregation.
Until now, Sunstein's radical proposal, set forth in his 1993 book "The Partial Constitution," received no news media attention and scant scrutiny.
In the book – obtained and reviewed by WND – Sunstein outwardly favors and promotes the "fairness doctrine," the abolished FCC policy that required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance in a manner the government deemed was "equitable and balanced."
Sunstein introduces what he terms his "First Amendment New Deal" to regulate broadcasting in the U.S.
His proposal, which focuses largely on television, includes a government requirement that "purely commercial stations provide financial subsidies to public television or to commercial stations that agree to provide less profitable but high-quality programming."
Sunstein wrote it is "worthwhile to consider more dramatic approaches as well."
He proposes "compulsory public-affairs programming, right of reply, content review by nonpartisan experts or guidelines to encourage attention to public issues and diversity of view."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
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Sunstein must be next. This is one DANGEROUS — probably certifiable — dude!!!
...here comes the attack on the Constitution....and our FReedom
I don’t give a damn what Cass Sunstein says. The constitution guarantees my rights, not Cass Sunstein.
Sunstein must be next. This is one DANGEROUS — probably certifiable — dude!!!
How constitutional is this?
Time to release The Beck!
I think the Dems have been grooming him for the Supreme Court..the track record on search says so.
how do we fight this....
This gasbag should be the next Van Jones, IMO. Another damned commie libtard in service to the anointed one.
Bull Puckey!
It’s time to take back the country.
Confirmed by the senate, and on the A list for Supreme Court.
Watch his every move.
I don’t want this evil egg head maniac doing one ****ing thing in my country! Does this dude have a little, white cat and a hidden island fortress filled with his own employees all wearing their own neatly pressed, similarly colored jump suit?
Under Cass Sunstein you don’t HAVE any rights!
Thanks. Is not Samantha Power the number 2 (no pun intended) at the Pentagon?
You have to see this I do not think it can be posted sit down and be ready to be mad as h!
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/15/pete-stark-peeing-on-your-leg/
“President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, drew up a “First Amendment New Deal,” a new “fairness doctrine” that would include the establishment of a panel of “nonpartisan experts”.
What a coincidence. My panel drew up a list of new traitors to hang.
Sunstein believes all rights are given by the State (with a capital S) and are not God given. That being said, what the State has given, the State can take away.
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