What are they scared of? Anyone who sanctions censorship deserves a cup of molten lead in their rectum.
Yea right.
Yea Bill,maybe it is time...
Forget about censorship for a moment, this bill would be hugely anti-business when we desperately need more jobs.
Very few people will listen to liberal drivel so stations will have to lay off people to stay alive.
The way I see it government should stay out of business except to protect property rights and punish fraudsters.
lol...only in the Orwellian world of commies like Press is "competition" defined as the gov't manipulating the free market and forcing radio stations to air Marxist propaganda.
And after their ratings fail miserably, advertising dollars fall through and nobody still listens, they’ll start mandating that grocery stores, airports, workplaces etc pipe this left wing garbage over the speakers.
“— and bring competition back to talk radio in Washington and elsewhere.”
Elsewhere, huh? So I presume Press favors legally imposed ideological balance in academia, Hollywood, and big city newspapers? Or just in the sole medium in which conservatives have an edge?
What is just as interesting is another article linked on that website—the Senator who was pushing this on Bill Press Radio Show has HUSBAND who is AN EXEC @ failing Air America. Talk about a lack of fairness?!!!
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/senator-debbie-stabenow-fairness-doctrine-married-to-air-america-exec
When liberals start referring to free speech as a “failed experiment”, I instinctively look over at my gun cabinet.
This would be the bloody limit.
We need to go for the sound bite, catchy phrase etc. by ALWAYS referring to it as the UNfairness Doctrine.
Then if we do it often enough (Rush, Sean et al need to be doing it too) everytime they babble about the ‘Fairness’ Doctrine, the public will hear UNfairness.
Why is it so hard to spell REAGAN?
I think that Obama picking on Rush is a precursor to the Fairness Doctrine institution. He is defining the fight as one of patriotism. Rush (who said he would like to see Obama’s policies fail—of course—we all would) is attacked by Obama as wanting his unholiness to fail. Obama at the very beginning is setting up Rush as a bad guy to his syncophants and the sheeple so he can push this Soviet style speech repression through.
It’s also humerous to think that the uninformed left—the Obama voters even listen to the issues. A few haters do with their communist belief system. Note the cities where Press says that lefty radio is successful—Madison Wisconsin, Portland Oregon, etc. I’m sure its on the global warming station.
Also the DC station was called “Obama 1260”. Yeah, that’s “fair”. Imagine a station called “W 1260” or “What would Reagan do? 1260”. The owner of 1260 also owns successful 570 home of Laura Ingram and the Washington Redskins. He is looking for a profit not Radio Un-Free america.
Does this mean they want to force all the Chinese language stations to broadcast in Spanish, too? What good is airing diverse opinions if nobody can understand them?
-PJ
Dem’s looking at the FD because of the “public airwaves”...ie govt control...
With the Old Dinasaures Newspapers falling like leaves....if/when the govt props them up, presumeable with ownership.....ala TARP........Fairness Doctrine to be applied there also?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172649/posts
it is important not to let leftists frame the argument. ask the mod to put “censorship doctrine” in parentheses next to the title.