Im all for the fairness doctrine as long as it is imposed on newspapers newsrooms and editorial content, the major news network newsrooms and editorial content, and on college faculty.
Im all for the fairness doctrine as long as it is imposed on newspapers newsrooms and editorial content, the major news network newsrooms and editorial content, and on college faculty.
You need to remember that by decree they set the starting point and that starting point is that leftist socialism or worse is the standard and original intent is Radical. In other words their point of view is middle of the road and needs no response. It will only be conseravtive (formally know as liberal way back when) that needs to be "balanced" with absolute gutter leftist views.
“news” media is specifically excluded from “fairness”.
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I'm all for the fairness doctrine as long as it is imposed on newspapers newsrooms and editorial content, the major news network newsrooms and editorial content, and on college faculty.
The "Fairness Doctrine" is a direct contradiction not only of the First Amendment but of the very reason for the existence of the Constitution - namely,We, the people of the United States, in order to . . . secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.Therefore we not only have no willingness to live under a law which suppresses our own rights to speak, listen, read, and write without reference to the convenience of any tyrant, we have no legitimate interest in seeing the rights of others who happen to have newspapers or be on college faculty.The fundamental problem which causes people to be confused about the legitimacy of censorship is that we the people have been subject to an intensive and extensive propaganda campaign to the effect that journalism is, should be, or even could be objective. That is absurd, because the rules of journalism themselves are not objective, and they are not an expression of the public interest. The rules of journalism are an expression of how to interest the public - but that is not the same as the public interest and indeed can be inimical to the public interest.
The conceit of journalistic objectivity is the idea that journalists are superior to the rest of the people. There is no reason why we should accept that presumption, or the expression of that presumption in laws which discriminate against ourselves.