Posted on 02/22/2009 9:45:41 AM PST by AJKauf
Remember the “Fairness Doctrine”? It was the FCC mandate that required equal representation of viewpoints on the airwaves in the 1970s and 80s. If a given radio channel aired three hours of conservative talk radio, it had to balance those out with three hours of liberal talk radio. President Ronald Reagan struck this down in 1987 and the popularity that conservative talk radio has garnered since has some members of the House and Senate calling for the doctrine’s reintroduction.
I have only one question: “Would the legislators who are pushing for the reinstitution of the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ be willing to abide by it as well?”...
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My question is will NPR then begin start hosting some Conservatives on their airwaves? I know, silly question!
PBS Fair and Balanced??
For a while NPR referred to themselves as:
“Public Radio International”
My suggestion is to let the International fund them, not the Taxpayers of the United States.
PBS and Obama/Pelosi think they are middle of the road. They call Hitler the far right and Stalin the far left. Since their government-control-of-everything beliefs fall right between those two, they think they are centrists.
Where’s the ACLU on all this? Why aren’t they out there opposing this attempt to censor talk radio? They think of themselves as defending the 1st amendment, even in the face of political opinions they disagree with. They say they defend child pornography because they think it should be protected speech, though they say they don’t like it. They say they just defend the rights of people to have child pornography.
if they defend the rights of the smut industry, certainly they would defend the rights of Rush Limbaugh??????
Obama says it will not happen in his administration. Translation...They will call it something else. It will be even worse.
Lets not forget a key point. When the “fairness Dotrine” that the Dems want to bring back, was originally put into law, There was no Sattelite TV, no cable TV, no *color* TV, not even black and white TV...There was no Internets with a million diifferent news sources, available with access to a internety connected PC, for all to read and share...There werwe obnly the newspapers and radio, and if both of them were owned by one party in a town, there was no other views availiable.
Now, in 2009, with the advent of and multiplicity, of many different media, and endless sources of news...radio by many, now considered at the bottom of the media “totem pole” and even if predominatly conservative. it is far from “fairness” to demand that radio stations be forced to alter their content from profitable shows to running half of the partys programs that don’t make money, because nobody wants to listen to them. There are an overwhelming amount of sources on other media that are not only infused with leftism, but actually push it down their customers mental throats.
For this “fairness Doctrine to be enforced niw, against only talk radio, is not a matter of ensuring all sides be heard on the issues of the day, it does the opposite, it restricts the Free Speech of those who are of an opposings views, and tthose who want to listen to those opposing views.
It is tantamount to fascist thuggery and domination of the public, and the “press” who inform it.
“My question is will NPR then begin start hosting some Conservatives on their airwaves? I know, silly question!”
They already do... they have commercials
hahahaha
What about all the jobs that will be lost? Another aspect of liberal hypocrisy.
Be prepared to get your unbiased news by shortwave or satellite radio from foreign countries on the other side of the Obama Curtain.
Nope. They think capitalism is worse than kiddie-porn. I suspect quite a few liberals at NPR and in Congress like pictures of little boys and little girls. None of them would associate with a conservative or even consider the possibility that the right might be right.
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