Posted on 12/16/2008 6:15:19 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Although president-elect Barack Obama has stated that he is opposed to the reimposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, it remains to be seen if he can resist the pressure of Congress to bring back a measure that many on the left favor because they claim it will "Hush Rush." Leading the charge for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine is Congresswoman Anna Eshoo of California. According to this report, Eshoo not only wants to bring it back but to extend it to absurdly include cable and satellite where public airwaves are not even involved:
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, said Monday she will work to restore the Fairness Doctrine and have it apply to cable and satellite programming as well as radio and TV.
“I’ll work on bringing it back. I still believe in it,” Eshoo told the Daily Post in Palo Alto.
The Fairness Doctrine required TV and radio stations to balance opposing points of view. It meant that those who disagreed with the political slant of a commentator were entitled to free air time to give contrasting points of view, usually in the same time slot as the original broadcast.
The doctrine was repealed by the Reagan administration's Federal Communications Commission in 1987, and a year later, Rush Limbaugh's show went national, ushering in a new form of AM radio.
Conservative talk show hosts fear the doctrine will result in their programs being canceled because stations don't want to offer large amounts of air time to opponents whose response programs probably wouldn't get good ratings.
Eshoo said she would recommend the doctrine be applied not only to radio and TV broadcasts, but also to cable and satellite services.
“It should and will affect everyone,” she said.
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communism affects everyone.
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It keeps getting deeper.
PING!
Perhaps they can balance NPR/PBS.
“Barack Obama has stated that he is opposed to the reimposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine”
What a bunch of crap! He’s talking out of one side of his Kenyan-born illegal alien mouth. He’d love to have any and all opposition squelched . . . Believe me, if he’d let newborns die, he’d let opposition radio die . . . the man’s a monster!
Everything will just move to the ‘net, it’s inevitable anyway
The commies already control cable and satellite. So they want to give the supports of freedom and liberty equal airtime?
Stupid Communist Twat.
Then the regulation will follow them.
Like CNN and MSNBC want to become :fair and balanced:
What is the matter with people from CA? First, they screw up their own part of the country, and when that is obvious, they move on to try to pull the sane parts of the country into the cesspool, too.
They are already talking about policing the net, making people get a version of a drivers license to use it so they can track you instead of passwords.
Kenya: Faiths Join Protests Against Curbs on Media Freedom
http://allafrica.com/stories/200812160874.html
“Although president-elect Barack Obama has stated that he is opposed to the reimposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine”
Obama is a liar! I have no trust or confidence in that man. We’ll see the Fairness Doctrine imposed upon us soon enough.
ah, don’t forget Hillary’s lament of a lack of a “gatekeeper” for the internet.
If they’re going to blatantly censor all opposing viewpoints, they’re not going to keep their hands off the internet.
Because they don’t see a connection between the cesspool they’re living in and their own ideology.
“Maybe if we go somewhere else we can get true progressivism to work.”
When we said “free speech”, we didn’t mean for you. :)
Now pay your taxes and have a nice day.
-your friends on the American left
Greetings, Comrade!
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