And the reason they should lose their privileges is that those privileges - denied to you and me but given to the government's pets for free - is that the FCC license proclaim that the FCC licensee is "more equal" than you and me. An FCC license makes the licensee's voice in politics louder than yours and mine, and proclaims that what the licensee says and does not say, and what the licensee shows and does not show, is "in the public interest."I just have to point out, that, since the *"Fairness Doctrine" was done away with the conservative prescence has only grown, while strictly-branded liberal talk continues to wane.
Wile Limbaugh and Beck and Hannity and host of others occupy about 20-23 minutes per half hour the MSM mediots only blather on at the top of the hour for 3 mins or so (and sometimes for a couple of mins at the bottom).
I call that progress; we are winning, winning on the war of ideas and the total numbers of minutes of airtime a day ...
* Fairness Doctrine:The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission that became known as the "Fairness Doctrine" is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair. The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were "public trustees," and as such had an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on controversial issues of public importance. The Commission later held that stations were also obligated to actively seek out issues of importance to their community and air programming that addressed those issues. With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine.
I call that progress; we are winning, winning on the war of ideas and the total numbers of minutes of airtime a day ...
In AM radio, yes. Broadcast TV is a different story.