--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > <snip> > > So it's your contention that this policy is to be > > invoked only when *all* of commercial broadcasting > > has fallen short of these goals? > > It's a policy, not a law.
Right, as I said. > That means that it is there to guide regulators as > to what they want the airwaves to produce. It is > NOT a license to force a single network to have all > sorts of points of view on one subject. I never said it was, Shemp. You made that up. The public interest standard, however, *does* apply to individual networks as well as multiple networks. <snip> > > > And that, my dear, is what we were discussing: requiring ABC to > > > edit and/or censor their creation. > > > > It's amazing how often you've gotten this wrong. > > Nobody is *requiring* ABC to do anything. > > > > MDixon gets this. Why is it so horribly confusing > > to you? > > Because I think in terms of freedom, not restriction as you do. Irrelevant. You keep misrepresenting my stance. This is about *advocating*, not requiring, not forcing, not binding, not restricting, and certainly not censoring. > Come on, can't you find anything in writing that is > the "obligation" for a single broadcaster to have > all points of view? Never said "all points of view." And I provided something in writing supporting what I *did* say. Try *just once* engaging in a debate without misrepresenting what the other person has said. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
