Posted on 11/14/2008 4:36:01 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Here's part of an email that has been sent to MediaMyrmidons by the Democrat Party's MediaMatters. It would seem that now with complete Democrat control of the government apparatus in Washington the liberals want to step up their attacks on freedom of expression .. especially expression of ideas with which they do not agree. When and if the Democrats get the idiotically-named "Fairness Doctrine" implemented again it is clear that MediaMatters wants to be THE clearing house for challenges and demands for equal time on the nation's talk radio stations. This message to their followers is part of that process:
"Every day, more than 100 million Americans are exposed to some of the most vitriolic hate speech you can find in the public arena. According to a 2007 analysis by the Center for American Progress and the Free Press, right-wing radio dominates the airwaves.
Their "analysis of all of the news/talk stations in the top 10 radio markets" found that "76 percent of the programming in these markets is conservative and 24 percent is progressive, although programming is more balanced in markets such as New York and Chicago."
Despite all the talk of a supposed "liberal bias" in the media, the reality is that conservatives rule talk radio.
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck may be some of the best-known hosts, but such nationally recognized names are just the tip of the iceberg. Each of these conservative firebrands started out as local radio hosts, sparking controversy and pushing right-wing talking points to local listeners. Just like them, the next generation of conservative talkers spends hours each day delivering conservative misinformation and launching offensive tirades against anyone who disagrees with them. These right-wing voices may be spread throughout the country, but together they form a conservative echo chamber that repeats conservative myths and falsehoods to millions of people.
Find out more about some of the up-and-coming right-wing radio hosts around the country.
http://mediamatters.org/reports/radio
Here are just a few examples:
*** Minneapolis radio hosts Chris Baker and Langdon Perry suggested that "Magic [Johnson] faked AIDS."
*** Pittsburgh's Jim Quinn called NOW the "National Organization for Whores."
*** Atlanta's Neal Boortz called Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans "basically a parasite class totally dependent on government for their existence."
To successfully combat conservative misinformation, we must fight it at every level. As part of a new campaign to expose the conservative smears being pushed by local radio hosts and stop them from spreading, Media Matters for America has released a new report on some of the most controversial hosts and their less-than-sparkling repertoire. You can join the fight by signing on to our Radio Action Team. As a member, you will receive information on local radio hosts, updates on their latest commentary, and the opportunity to make your voice heard. Join the team.
http://mediamatters.org/reports/radio/sign_up
I look forward to working with you on this important project. Erin Hofteig Director, New Media Media Matters for America
I'm tellin' ya ... I would have been very disappointed if they hadn't included me in their examples. Glad to know that all my hard work isn't going for naught. Now you folks sign up out there! There's no sense standing for freedom of expression when Erin Hofteig and MediaMatters is standing ready to help you strike it down! The people they're signing up here will be the shock troops when Pelosi gets her Fairness Doctrine. MediaMatters will send them their ACTION ALERT! emails and they'll be instructed as to just how to contact their local Limbaugh, Hannity or Boortz affiliate to make a demand for equal time. I'm tellin' ya ... I would have been very disappointed if they hadn't included me in their examples. Glad to know that all my hard work isn't going for naught. Now you folks sign up out there! There's no sense standing for freedom of expression when Erin Hofteig and MediaMatters is standing ready to help you strike it down! The people they're signing up here will be the shock troops when Pelosi gets her Fairness Doctrine. MediaMatters will send them their ACTION ALERT! emails and they'll be instructed as to just how to contact their local Limbaugh, Hannity or Boortz affiliate to make a demand for equal time.
They don't have the skill to play with the big boys, so they want to close the playground.
"Every day, more than 100 million Americans are exposed to some of the most vitriolic hate speech you can find in the public arena. According to a 2007 analysis by the Center for American Progress and the Free Press, right-wing radio dominates the airwaves. Their "analysis of all of the news/talk stations in the top 10 radio markets" found that "76 percent of the programming in these markets is conservative and 24 percent is progressive, although programming is more balanced in markets such as New York and Chicago." Despite all the talk of a supposed "liberal bias" in the media, the reality is that conservatives rule talk radio. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck may be some of the best-known hosts, but such nationally recognized names are just the tip of the iceberg. Each of these conservative firebrands started out as local radio hosts, sparking controversy and pushing right-wing talking points to local listeners. Just like them, the next generation of conservative talkers spends hours each day delivering conservative misinformation and launching offensive tirades against anyone who disagrees with them. These right-wing voices may be spread throughout the country, but together they form a conservative echo chamber that repeats conservative myths and falsehoods to millions of people. Find out more about some of the up-and-coming right-wing radio hosts around the country. Here are just a few examples: Minneapolis radio hosts Chris Baker and Langdon Perry suggested that "Magic [Johnson] faked AIDS." Pittsburgh's Jim Quinn called NOW the "National Organization for Whores." Atlanta's Neal Boortz called Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans "basically a parasite class totally dependent on government for their existence." To successfully combat conservative misinformation, we must fight it at every level. As part of a new campaign to expose the conservative smears being pushed by local radio hosts and stop them from spreading, Media Matters for America has released a new report on some of the most controversial hosts and their less-than-sparkling repertoire. You can join the fight by signing on to our Radio Action Team. As a member, you will receive information on local radio hosts, updates on their latest commentary, and the opportunity to make your voice heard. Join the team. I look forward to working with you on this important project. Erin Hofteig Director, New Media Media Matters for America
coming to a station near us: elevator music 24/7
Apparently 100 million Americans don’t know how their radio works.
Obamunism cannot survive without censorship. No communist state can.
Funny they dont give any examples for Rush, and yet he’s at the top of their hit-list.
Boom times ahead for satilite/internet radio, and podcasting.
Because it’s a given, dontchaknow.
Well isn’t it odd they don’t talk about the hate speech coming from the Couric channel? I can’t wait, 1/2 hour of liberal BS, followed by a 1/2 hour of truth.
I just signed up! And I would advise everyone else to do the same. Remember how a termite can destroy a structure without any notice until the walls crumble around the owner.
Think about one of the lessons of Saul Alinsky - use the values of your enemy against them. Use protest, subversion, deceit, and deception against groups like Media Matters, in the same way that they use similar strategems against conservative and pro-American groups. I am proud to be a member of Media Matters - after all, aren’t they a “public interest group”? Am I not the public? LOL
The Wall Street Journal correctly terms this the “Censorship Doctrine.”
For you history buffs, what the democrats want to do is a variation of the Alien and Sedition Act, and just as illegal 200 years later.
Mini-marxists practicing to become Obama’s big-marxist hitmen on the First Amendment. What did you expect, leftists who respect the Constitution when they do not agree with it?
An old Marcusian concept of “tolerating intolerance” when it comes from the Left.
We were warned but not enough people listened or cared.
Liberal fascism morphing into overt Marxism right before your eyes.
This is good, Tarpon. Mind if I use it?
I am so sick of the term “HATE”
These people are empty suits. They have no ideas and consequently, cannot compete in the free market.
If they had a brain they would know how really vapid their arguments are. They are the ramblings of a mental midget.
But people listen to them, that is what is so amazing to me.
Spread the Obamanation of Obamunism far and wide.
I heard Sean Hannity say Sarah Palin hunts disabled children from helicopters. I couldn’t believe it at first, but then, knowing that she removes all the books from women who are raped by wolves and makes the librarians in Wasilla pay for rape kits for the Russian women she says she can see from her puny litle town in Alaska, it shouldn’t surprise me.
My My...what would happen to Howard Stern???
I think we should start by calling it what it is — censorship.
EXACTLY....also what about SCHOOLS, NEWSPAPERS, ABCNBCMSNBCCBSPBS et al? We could have REAL fun in Schools....so you're going to teach EVOLUTION? Well...then...YOU GOTTA teach CREATIONISM too!!! It's about FREE SPEECH....NOT LIBERAL allowed SPEECH
Yes, talk radio DOES kind of suck.
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