Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.I didn’t see this posted, please delete if it is a duplicate.
Time to move blogs to non-US hosting.
Pinging all..
impossible to control this beast. never happen
No,.. FCC Commissioner, a Return of Fairness Doctrine Would Silence Web Content!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
I am sure that if Obama is elected with a Democratic House and Senate, and a Democrat majority on the Supreme Court, it will mean the fairness doctrine applied to all media: tv and radio, newspapers, books, pamphlets, the internet and even public speech. And to the Democrat rulers, the fairness doctrine will mean nothing may be stated but liberal ideology. The US will be like China, a totalitarian state with no individual rights. The only difference will be that China is becoming capitalist, while America will be an atheistic, Communist, Muslim state.
If Washington thought the Immigration Reform popular outburst was big, wait till they try to shove this one down our throats!
Wow!!!
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.The Fairness Doctrine is fine as long as it is applied to the school system, the colleges, all of the newspapers, public radio, and all of the TV news shows. Katie gets 15 minutes, then JimRob gets 15 minutes. Sissy Matthews gets 15 minutes, then I get 15 minutes.
How ANYONE could consider that the “Fairness Doctrine” is even remotely constitutional is beyond the universe of reasonable thought.
If B.O. gets in, it will be time for another ‘tea party’!
There is more reason to expand the FCC to cover cable television than the internets.
Restricting political speech on the internet is just about censoring a contrary view to the liberal establishment. No allegations of illegal or seditious intent. Just an alternate media outlet to the fourth branch of government (run by and for the Democrats).
I guess I can see the value of the Fairness Doctrine in years gone past, when there were limited media outlets. Not that it worked then, either. But with the advent of the internet, cable’s 24 hour news, massive amounts of magazines and newspapers, there is absolutely no reason a person can’t get news coverage from every angle conceived by man. Not to mention...it’s not within the limits of the Constitution.
BUT..does that mean that conservatives will be able to post uncontested at Kos or DU? Does that mean that Rosie O’Donnell will be a guest on Rush? (ya gotta admit that could be humorous!)
Nah..didn’t think so...
The Fairness doctrine would kill am radio and TV opinion shows.
Bull.
The basis of the fairness doctrine was first and foremost that odd notion of “the people’s airwaves.”
The “people” don’t have ownership of phone lines, satellites, and cables. Those are independently owned and operated.
btt