Too early for constructive ideas. You are dreaming. Save that for 2010. Heres mine:
Cheer up gloomy freepers. All that pre-election doomsday talk about crazy stuff like ‘Fairness Doctrine ’, ‘get rid of 401Ks’, ‘prosecute Bush”. I dream that they would be stupid enough to try a bunch of crazy liberal stuff . They won two elections by playing careful, now we need to go to democratic websites and encourage the Cindy Sheenan’s to challenge their leadership to go Chavis LOL.
A “Fairness Doctrine” Act that targets talk radio would be un-constitutional as:
1) An infringement of the 1st Amendment. But even if they found a countervailing public interest to require equal time then:
2) An arbirtrary and capricious application of the law so as to discriminate against who is protected. This violates the “equal protection” clause, as do the “hate crime” laws.
No, but they'll fit great in the Obama controlled media.............
IMPEACH OBAMA!
So what happens if the reporter claims to be independent?
I like this idea:
June 18, 2008
Meet the Press: John Stossel is the Man for the Job
http://www.tableofwisdom.com
Reading John Friedman’s column today at marketwatch.com - regarding potential replacements for the late Tim Russert of Meet the Press, I
I agree with what seems to be the common consensus about Chris Matthews not being the right choice to replace the late Tim Russert.
I used to enjoy watching Matthews during the time of the Clinton impeachment but since then, he has become more blatantly partisan than ever. His syndicated Sunday morning show is like an infomercial and he doesn’t even bother to put one token conservative on his liberal think-tank he calls a “panel”. I also think his skills are diminishing as he no longer makes an effort to modulate his voice. His nightly show is like one hour of incessant screaming with a few commercials in between to break the monotony. If they were going to consider Matthews the job, they might as well also consider Billy Mays, pitchman for Oxy-Clean, Mighty Putty and the Samurai Shark knife sharpener. At least Billy Mays is much more affable and has arguably brought something useful to our lives.
John Stossel would be an interesting choice. As a well known Libertarian, I believe he would clearly be the most objective of any choice thus far propounded.
He is a “no holds barred” type of journalist. He would not shy away from confronting ANY politician, liberal or conservative. No matter what your political affiliation might be, you will sometimes love him and sometimes despise him but at least he wouldn’t be a partisan activist like the other choices.
Stossel doesn’t come from a “talking head” background but he does know government and is bright enough to transition into the role. He’s a Princeton grad, professional journalist and has 19 Emmy awards to his credit.
It is time to think out of the box and remove the recycled, usual suspects from consideration. The executives of GE/NBC have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to pick the best person for the job and not to use this network as a tool for their own personal political agenda. Their boss is not the DNC. It is time to make these people accountable to their bosses, the SHAREHOLDERS. If they want to put their own personal political agenda ahead of profitability, especially in times like these, than the DNC needs to start a private equity firm and take the company PRIVATE.
What's to say the FCC’s agenda wouldn't be to paint “I” commentators as “R” so that anything in the middle would get called ‘right wing’ and only the loony lefties got “I” by their names?
HOw about a fairness doctorine for our tax dollars first.