Can we apply the Censorship Doctrination to the Old York Times?
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Wonder if this liberal heard about that caller from MI tell RUSH that 49% of adults in Detroit are illiterate? (RUSH had somebody look up the stats and the reported number is 47%, RUSH was stunned with the number the caller from Boston, now living in MI, claimed.)
I’m glad we left Michigan in 2002.
I grind my teeth whenever I see her name, hear her name, hear her voice...she's going to be getting my dental bills pretty soon.
Why isn’t any of these “new media” types reporting on Stabenow’s husband and HIS line of work?
He’s an executive in the liberal media.
“....there needs to be some accountability...”
Hey Debbie, there already is some accountability. It is called the market. Just look at how the market held Air America accountable for their lack of appeal. Oh, you didn’t mean that type of speech....
I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else – I absolutely think it’s time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency.
By all means, let's have a little transparency. Before you go anywhere with this "standard" of yours, prove that journalism is objective. Unless you can prove that, all the prattling about how talk radio has a political tendency is meaningless. But you cannot do it.You cannot do it, because even if it were true the absence of bias would be an unprovable negative.
And you cannot do it because it is provably false. Journalism openly follows rules such as "If it Bleeds, it leads" and "Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man" which are easily justifiable - but only from the self-interested perspective of the desire of journalism to make money. Is greed good - but only when it is manifested by journalists?
Bad news is what interests the public - but bad news is patently not in the public interest. So without making criminal accusations, it is clear that journalism would profit if a bridge failed or a major crime were perpetrated or a hurricane hit somewhere and killed a lot of folks.
Not only so, but politicians have a powerful incentive to get on the good side of journalists, and conservative talk radio is notably critical of "bias in the media." So politicians who promote "accountability" of conservative talk radio programs - government control directly contrary to the intent of the First Amendment - must initially rebut the presumption that rather than nobly serving the public good as they pretend, they are in fact corruptly currying favor with journalists who are in a position to help them in return.
Washington, DC Office
Senator Debbie Stabenow
133 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4822
TTY: (202) 224-2066
e-mail: senator@stabenow.senate.gov
Mid-Michigan Office
Senator Debbie Stabenow
221 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 100
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 203-1760
They are just BEGGING for an all out revolution. And...they will get it!!
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it is important not to let leftists frame the argument. ask the mod to put “censorship doctrine” in parentheses next to the title.