Posted on 01/31/2007 6:37:00 AM PST by rface
will it also apply to television and newspapers? not a chance!!!! so, please tell me what is fair about it?
That's the deal, they don't see the liberal bias in all of the other media sources - they're like fish saying "what water?".
There is absolutely NO WAY "fairness" will be imposed on the left leaning media.
Trying to justify "hushing el-Rushbo".
NOT, It is about what YOU, Gene and the rest of your lib pals, think is right and wrong for this country. D@#$%& socialists.
This is garbage. There was a liberal talk show, Air America. It tanked because people wouldn't listen to it and they failed to pay their bills. The whole Fairness Doctrine is just the left's way of trying to shut up the people.
Al Franken? Janeanne Garafolo?
The market isn't interested, so another liberal wants to tilt the playing field...
"And really, it's not about left and right. It's about what's right and wrong for this country." ..............NOT TRUE, it all comes down to $$$$$$$. Commercial radio is just that. If the program sells the sponsors pay big bucks for advertisement. If the show bombs, they lose sponsors. If a station has to rely on G. Soros for funds, it obviously bombed. Put more alternate view stations on the wavebands and let them run on their own merits. Why do people listen to Rush et.al.? They are sick of the MSM, and they do their own research.
The free market is what right for this country- not some political committee choosing our radio shows.
Any liberals who can sell their format to advertisers can entice network execs to put them on the air. But the public doesnt want to hear it. All that Bush bashing (the epitome of liberal issues) is stale as last night's coffee. Look at the failure of "Air America". Look at the failure of Phil Donahue.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/donahue.ap/index.html
So Gene Racz believes that because people tune out rabid liberals on the air waves, the government must come in with its intellectual affirmative action and force stations to have programming that will lose money. And if you want to know about ratings, how about Err AMerika, that liberal flagship that is really just a rubber inner tube floating in a fetid swamp. That's a ratings grabber.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Funny isn't it? It wasn't a Republican Congress that pulled Phil's program but rather the ultra-liberal broadcaster MSNBC. Why was it pulled? The free market won't put up with Communist pieces of crap overtly slamming our military. The American advertisers won't put up with a loudmouthed chump like Donahue using the public's airways to spew anti-American hatred on American TV, or Radio for that matter, and the network would end up suffering a sever loss of revenue.
Let them put out their "fairness doctrine" but prevent them from using our tax dollars to subsidize the networks once their advertising sales tank.
Jeff Cohen of FAIR says that NPR is "conservative".
Really, heard it with my own eyes.
Ed Schultz, Alan Colmes, Amy Goodman. I don't know why people say none exist.
Of course, exceptions were made for PBS, MSNBCBS, ABC and every other leftwing news channel because they are supposedly broadcasing news, not opinion.
Could it be nobody wants to listen to liberal sh*t on the radio? Just MAYBE?
They already do. They typically get people who are a silly parody of a conservative and put them on the air outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1. They do it just to make conservatives look bad. But then again, Rush could have lots of seminar callers for the 'left' viewpoint and he can tear them to shreds.
Stuart Smalley...er...I mean, Al Franken.
How about Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, Jeanine Garafalo, Pete Wilson, Mario Cuomo etc. Too bad they are unable draw an audience or else they would be easy for even you to name Gene.
Right. Who decides? Rats decide.
Lying b@$t@$rd.
The Right doesn't have lock on talk radios for political reasons. They have a lock on it 'cause they can sell advertising. If a Left Wing talker can sell advertising, stations will rush to carry him.
Problem is, lefties are dialed into music or NPR. They don't need Lefty talkers.
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