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Leibowitz's Canticle ^ | June 27, 2007 | Leibowitz

Posted on 06/27/2007 3:49:36 PM PDT by MRiley

Perhaps conservatives could most easily balance the current argument by making certain that the discussion properly includes all segments of the over the air broadcast industry.

Let's see. On CBS that would give Laura Ingraham and Katie Couric 15 minutes each in the early evening. Sean Hannity and Brian Williams could team up on the other network. If we put Mike Savage in with Larry King for an hour, we'd all have at least two reasons to never watch CNN ever again.

(Excerpt) Read more at canticle4leibowitz.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: fairness; feinstein; limbaugh
Every cloud has a silver lining!
1 posted on 06/27/2007 3:49:37 PM PDT by MRiley
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To: MRiley
Blog pimp?


2 posted on 06/27/2007 4:11:56 PM PDT by indcons (Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.)
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Here is the full article. I don’t see this source on the excerpt list.


If only Isaac Newton had studied the softer sciences, his third law might have stated
“That for every diktat by rulers there is an equally perverse unintended consequence.”
Such would certainly seem to apply to the current infatuation of the left with their discussion (in public, yet!) of possible efforts to reincarnate the old soviet-style Fairness Doctrine. The doctrine was popular with ruling elites until its demise in 1987, a final casualty of the Reagan Revolution. The doctrine
demanded that broadcast licensees present controversial issues of public importance, and that they present such issues in what was deemed an honest, equal and balanced manner.
Perhaps conservatives could most easily balance the current argument by making certain that the discussion properly includes all segments of the over the air broadcast industry.

Let’s see. On CBS that would give Laura Ingraham and Katie Couric 15 minutes each in the early evening. Sean Hannity and Brian Williams could team up on the other network. If we put Mike Savage in with Larry King for an hour, we’d all have at least two reasons to never watch CNN ever again.

The worst news would be that to make everything balance out, Rush would need to get up earlier to host his new pacesetting and agenda-driving It’s a Good Morning in America show in the prime morning hours. Perhaps Today would recruit Al Gore, then the two networks could strike some sort of agreement that would satisfy the government’s inspectors.

We’d keep Fox News. They could hold onto MSNBC.


3 posted on 06/27/2007 4:16:51 PM PDT by indcons (Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.)
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To: indcons

Hey, thanks. That’s great. I didn’t realize you could just copy the whole article and then post it. Readership is probably higher here than at most of the blogs I follow, so doing so makes a lot of sense.

I noticed when you snipped the article you cut the three links. I would prefer that they stay intact so that I can know the source of the quotes.

Can you repost it, please, with the links intact? I don’t know how to do that. Maybe do one from Sister Toldjah, too? But give her credit, of course.

Thanks, again


4 posted on 06/28/2007 9:45:47 AM PDT by MRiley
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