--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
> > wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > > I'm discouraging the dissemination without rebuttal
> > > > > on national television of documented falsehoods
> > > > > concerning the lead-up to 9/11.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, that's precisely what you're doing.  I congratulate you 
> > > > for admitting it.
> > > 
> > > I'm not "admitting" it, I'm *asserting* it.
> > > 
> > > > Of course, "the dissemination without rebuttal on national 
> > > > television of documented falseoods concerning the lead-up to
> > > > 9/11" is free speech and that is what you are discouraging.
> > > 
> > > The public airwaves are obligated to present
> > > both sides of a story, Shemp.
> > 
> > No they're not!
> > 
> > There is an obligation on the part of certain broadcasters to 
> > give "equal time" to opposing politicians when certain 
politicians, 
> > such as the president, gives an address.
> 
> No, it's any politician running for office.  And
> that's a regulation, not just an obligation.
> 
> > Show me a law where it says that the public airwaves are 
obligated 
> > to present both side of a story.  Such a law would, indeed, be a 
> > violation of the first amendment.
> 
> I didn't say there was a law, Shemp.  I said there
> was an obligation.  It's called the "public interest
> standard," and it is FCC policy (as opposed to
> a regulation).
>


Well, fuck obligations...especially when they violate freedom of 
speech.  And such an obligation (I'm still waiting to see where in 
writing it even says that such an obligation exists) is a diversion 
from what we're discussing...AND definitely doesn't justify your 
version of censorship.

So, dearie, show us where this obligation exists in writing, 
please...





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