Kucinich: Congress To Take On FCC(The Hush Rush Bill is back) January 15, 2007

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[BlueJ7]

Also in consideration is the "Fairness Doctrine," which required broadcasters to present controversial topics in a fair and honest manner. It was enforced until it was eliminated in 1987.

Kucinich said in his speech that "We know the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda" and added "we are now in a position to move a progressive agenda to where it is visible."

[unkus]

I would hope and expect our side to jam the courts and at least put this BS on hold. But the courts have been "jammed" with liberal judges. These people have an agenda to ruin America and it is getting way out of hand. I think it could backfire though. Almost everything "liberal" backfires but unfortunately, the good get hurt in the process.

[pandemoniumreigns]

" Hip Hop Caucus"

The Hip Hop Caucus???

This is great...

[onedoug]

This must be a result of having made a fool of himself on Hugh Hewitt recently.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm assuming that this is the same Jeff Cohen who founded Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR)?

FAIR is the Left's version of Brent Bozell's Media Research Center. Cohen was also the original extreme Lefty on FNC's Fox News Watch weekend show with Eric Burns. When Cohen left, he was replaced with Neil Gabler.

-PJ

[unkus]

My disgust for these people grows by the day.

[Farmer Dean]

Il ive about 45 miles south of Cleveland;I've watched the little twit make a fool of himself for about 30 years now.

[longtermmemmory]

so that 1994 article is now totally disproven in 2006.

Air America failed however failed in a free market.

In addition,the air america investors are continuing with a new left wing radio group.

This recent law is "broadcast for free" law.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Jeff Cohen

Jeff Cohen is a professional creep.

[VeniVidiVici]

Quite frankly, I think the Air America debacle will be the undoing of the Democrats attempt to silence free speech and reimplement the "Fairness Doctrine".

[Myrddin]

No talk radio? What will I do all day, work?

Good observation. I can write web pages with Rush on as background noise/entertainment. The radio goes off when I'm deep in the throes of coming with with a new approach for data compression or cooking up a new FIR filter. Laura Ingraham follows Rush in my market. I have to be doing something really mindless like writing requirements docs to leave that running. Perhaps a spreadsheet.

[Interesting Times]

It's crucial to oppose this. Leftists will gladly make it illegal to disagree with them, if not prevented from doing so.

[groanup]

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor prohibiting the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the freedom of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

This most basic and inviolate of the laws has been thrown under the bus. Those that did it are subject to the worst punishment under the law.

[Louis Foxwell]

What is to prevent stacking the FCC with conservatives and require the MSM to be fair and balanced?

[prov1813man]

I agree.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Dennis The Dwarf is a dangerous, communist, con man. It's amazing that he just can't be defeated in Cleveland. I've actually lost friends over this idiot. I'd like to buttonhole him, and back him into a corner, and demand some explanations from him. There's something seriously wrong in his head!

[muawiyah]

"Progressive" has, for many decades already, meant "Stalinist".

Good reason to lock Kucinich up somewhere.

[Cheburashka]

Just a thought. If such a broadly defined law were to pass, does it not mean that our courts could be jammed with freepers, et. al., suing CNN for their obvious biased reporting of "controversial" issues without giving the other side?
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These suits are made by advocacy groups. Who has more advocacy groups? The Left. They don't care about getting their message out, they want to clear the Limbaughs etal from the airways. They don't need Air America on the air, they just want the station owners to stop programming right-wing talk. If the station owners program elevator music, heavy metal, call-in sports talk, all-calliope-all-the-time, the Lefties won't care.

Even if the right-wing can match the left-wing dollar for dollar, advocacy group for advocacy group, the station owners can't spend all their money defending lawsuits. So they'll fold. The fact is that this law will annihilate the market value of their investments in the stations won't matter a whit to Kucinich etal. And it will. The reason Rush and the right-wingers are on the air is they drive up the station's ratings and the sales department can sell ad time for lots of money. Without programming the listeners want to hear the ratings collapse, and the ad rates will follow, and the stations' profitability will collapse too.

But hey, do you expect the Left will care that they will destroy an entire industry? Hell, no, why should they? They hate capitalism.

[RetiredArmy]

My disgust for these people grows by the day.

Get a move on troop. I hit max overload on hating these pukes long ago. You gotta get a move on!!!!

[festus]

Yes and its important to defeat this in congress. Because if it ever makes it to GWB's desk he'll just sign it and then the supreme court will uphold it.

I'd love to think otherwise but I'm still smarting from CFR.

[unkus]

You are right. We must move on and we will win in the long run. Thanks for your encouragement.