“Politico.com - President Clinton Wants ‘More Balance’ on Airwaves
February 12, 2009
By Michael Calderone, Politico.com
Even though no member of Congress has scheduled hearings on the Fairness Doctrine, it remains on a hot topic on both liberal and conservative shows.
Today, radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for “some type of enforced media accountability.”
“Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side,” Clinton said, “because essentially there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous....”
Clinton said that there needs to be either “more balance in the programs or have some opportunity for people to offer countervailing opinions.” Clinton added that he didn’t support repealing the Fairness Doctrine, an act done under Reagan’s FCC.
In the past week, a couple Democratic Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Tom Harkin, have both spoken favorably about the Fairness Doctrine, or holding hearings on radio accountability.”
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Let the free market work!
They are striving for government control in all arenas. Will the fairness doctrine put Michael Savage on NPR? I tend to doubt it. Will Limbaugh have equal time on Chris Mathews’ show? I doubt it. That is where the courts Will come in, this is a battle that will be waged in courtrooms; I just hope they avoid the 9th circus.