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The doctrine was repealed by the Reagan administration's Federal Communications Commission in 1987, and a year later, Rush Limbaugh's show went national, ushering in a new form of AM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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
He’s got something that is not called the “fairness doctrine” that will accomplish the same thing - I think it’s called “localization” or some such.
It seems the fairness doctrine is just the matador’s cape.
Hmm... How about boycotting any company in her district like...Hewlett Packard (as much as I like their stuff). Sending the companies letters too.
In all fairness, this woman is an imbecile who will not be able to get any legislation she and the idiots on her staff writes passed.
Well, elections and actions do have conseqwuences.
And one of the conquences is, except when Republicans win, the winner makes the rules. The Republicans deferred to the Democrats for the last 7 years. This is one reason we are in the mess that we are in. The Country Club Republicans believe that they can co-exist with the communists a/k/a Democrats. When the communist get their power consolidated they will be for a rude aweakening.
It is only going to get worse.
Oh, just give me the slightest reason to drop this cable TV that I pay for every month. I’m on the verge anyway of dropping it.
It won’t be long before we will see what we are made of.
What I wonder is what she knew about the plane crash that killed the President of the company before Elmer took over, and did she address any concerns she might have had to the FBI.
What I wonder is what she knew about the plane crash that killed the President of the company before Elmer took over, and did she address any concerns she might have had to the FBI.
Then they will apply it to the “net”.
the bitch just wants to make sure that the sheep only get communist news and philosophy.
Opinion other than approved sorces will be outlawed.
ML/NJ
Buy ammo. Form cells. Get ready.
Exactly, there doesn’t seem any other way left to get rid of the commie dems and their parasite supporters
The Ministry of Truth has spoken.
I’ll support the Fairness Doctrine if it applies to CBS, NY Times, MSNBC, etc.
Radio uses public airways to distribute the message...... must be fair.
News papers use public roads to distribute their message...... must be fair.
Time and Newsweek use public mails to distribute their message....... must be fair.
All media that uses public infrastructure are subject to the fairness doctrine
So, in other words this simple scumbag Eshoo wants CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC to now devote half of their days to bringing people in to present the news with a conservative spin? And Williams, Gibson, and Couric must vacate their desks for half of their broadcasts so conservative anchors can sit in and re-read the news with a conservative spin?
Wow.
They will throw everything in the pot in the hopes that some of it will stick. That will be the start.
The woman is a facist, plain and simple.
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