[BamaAndy]

Send him an email at: zasloff@law.ucla.edu

Below is a copy of mine:

How exactly would the government yank Fox off the air? I am unclear about that one given our 1st amendment rights.
I would rather think we should look into allowing NPR to compete in an open marketplace rather than relying on government subsidies for a communication vehicle that is not limited to emergency broadcasts. Shoot, the entity may thrive.

It may not do so well. I guess it depends on the ratings. Alas to generate ratings and attract advertising dollars, it has to build credibility much like news services and papers must work to demonstrate factual accuracy. They are doing well, yes, no?

In all sincerity,
a fellow journalist and novelist who uses the name Hunter Ayers on occassion.

[GOPJ]

How exactly would the government yank Fox off the air?

FOX isn't "broadcast" they're cable. I don't think the FCC can do anything. Like I said, the prof thinks we're already living in the totalitarian state of his dream world - where only HIS ideas rule. What a shit.

[9YearLurker]

Ha! The guy has a total of five degrees from Harvard, Yale and Cambridge: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=768

(I guess there’s nothing that a professional student can ultimately do but teach!)

[GWB00]

Here is my note to Zasloff:

Re: I agree with you on pulling the FCC License from Fox

You and your buddies at the Journalist have it absolutely correct. Then we call all the right wingers fascist!

Maybe we can even paint Hitler type mustaches on George Bush photos at anti-war rallies and call them Tea Partiers.

Or maybe… We can elect a guy to the Senate who was a Grand Klegel in the KKK and demand that the Republican Majority Leader of the Senate be removed for trying to be nice to an old man and colleague at his birthday party.

Or maybe…..

I think you get the point.

There is a significant number of people in this country who have legitimate ideas contrary to your own. They have been bullied and cowered by mainstream journalism and the “elite” class for too long. A sleeping giant has awakened and I believe this is only the beginning.

While objectively, one must imagine how a professor can reconcile your Fox proposition with academic freedom and free expression, because you could very easily be on the receiving end some day of that very same proposal.

Unfortunately, I think that in your mind and in the mind of many others who do not agree with other legitimate views that the “ends justifies the means”. Historically this type of activity and its justification has not worked out so well for humanity.

The Underground!

[GOPJ]

I was active in the civil rights movement in '63 and '64 ( marches - meetings - singing We Shall Overcome kind of like attending Tea Parties today ) - there are haters that no one can reason with - then or now. You have to learn to spot them. This guy's a hater - as is the JournoLister calling for Rush's painful death. Neither of them would be capable of understanding the underlying reasons behind fair play and decency, freedom of speech, or rule of law. They understand totalitarian thuggery and little else - rights for themselves and their friends, none for others... it's always the same with these types.

Trying to reason with them is a waste of time - no email will reach their closed hateful little minds. It just won't happen. We need to reach out to those on the left with a conscience - there are some...