This and the “fairness” doctrine were the main tools that leftists use to push their anti-capitalist, pro-communist agendas. They’re squealing like stuck pigs because now all these industries (PEOPLE!) they’ve been demonizing over the years get to fight back.
Yet for the first time, the federal government has launched a war against an entire -- and completely legal -- industry: broadcast television.
The Federal Communications Commission has made little effort to hide its goal of ending free television. The recent -- and perhaps most brazen -- act was the appointment by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski of a Duke University Law Professor to serve as the commission's architect to dismantle the nation's 1,600 television stations.
This is what should most alarm the public. Moving broadcast television to subscription-only platforms such as cable and satellite or shutting down the service altogether eliminates a free, mass media First Amendment vehicle.
As a poster pointed out on another thread, if a corporation can be TAXED, then a corporation deserves its free speech rights.