What proponents of the "fairness doctrine" fail to appreciate is that legislation will not force people to listen to what they do not want to hear.
Broadcasters will quickly see the financial burden of carrying unpopular, unprofitable programming to satisfy the banal concept of fairness and will stop carrying any political opinion at all, rather than be forced to carry programming that drives away the listeners. A nice, bland, non-controversial content which no one will complain about. The result will be to suppress political discourse, not to enhance it, as the "fairness doctrine" is touted to do. And one more nail in AM radio's coffin. Curt ------- W. Curt Deegan Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida At 10:03 PM 1/21/2007, you wrote: >Unfortunately the Fairness Doctrine may drive listeners away in droves as >prefigured by the smashing success of Air America. It would be nice if Mr. >Blimpjaw were balanced by opposing views, say those of Mr. >Zhirinovsky. Pillpop is >entirely too communistic for my sense of well being. > >Heard so many good ones while living in High Desert on clear channel stations >- the real ones not BIgKorpseorate mimics that cynically ripped the name. > >Wouldn't it be great if George Putnam, Roger Friedenburg, Bill Wattenberg, >Lou Epton, Laurie Roth, Barry Farber and others were just a wee bit more >available? > > Wouldn't it be nice if the good congressman affixed a rider pronouncing >iBLOC 'harmful unlawful interference'? > > Wouldn't it be nice if it rained green beer in Dublin every Friday night? > > >Dr. Zecchino > >P.V. Zecchino, T.D. >'no soy medico' > >"I wish we had wings! I wish rainwater was beer! > But it isn't!" > - Matthew, > "Man for All Seasons" > c. 1962, Robert Bolt > > >_______________________________________________ >IRCA mailing list >[email protected] >http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > >Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the >original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of >the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > >For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > >To Post a message: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
