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the ones who can stop any of this from happening are the advertisers who will
lose revenue. pols receive big donations from all of these advertisers
irrespective of political affiliation - threaten to stop giving them money and
you will see how fast they drop the subject
In a message dated 04/14/09 13:31:25 Eastern Daylight Time,
rhomp2...@earthlink.net writes:
Yes it will.
What they are trying to do with this is the same thing they are trying to do
with all their social programs - game the end results rather than what it took
to get there. People listen to right wing radio because they are interested.
They do not listen to left wing radio because they are not interested. End of
story. If you want fair results, sharpen up the left wing radio to make it
interesting enough that anyone would want to listen to it.
Claguerra245 wrote:
and this will bring back pirate radio
In a message dated 04/14/09 10:39:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
rhomp2...@earthlink.net writes:
As popular opposition to the reinstitution of the so-called "Fairness
Doctrine" mounts, Barack Obama and the Democrat-dominated Congress
will end-run critics with legislation that will curb dissent on talk
radio through the imposition of "localism" rules and community
watchdog boards across America, charges a new book by a former NBC
Westwood One talk-show host.
In "Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech," author Brad O'Leary
says the plan amounts to the development of party-approved "commissar
committees" to censor the kind of lively and free-wheeling debate
America has known since the scrapping of the so-called "Fairness
Doctrine" by President Reagan's Federal Communications Commission in
1987.
By demanding radio stations answer to local community watchdog boards
to ensure programming is "balanced," "fair," "diverse," "tolerant" and
"serving the public interest locally," O'Leary says the rules and
legislation being planned will once again make talk radio accountable
to politicians, political activists and bureaucrats at the FCC.
"The liberals' once-dominant media forum is fading fast, in part
because Americans have discovered real diversity of ideas elsewhere,"
O'Leary writes. "The enemies of free speech know this. They also know
that, if they are to accomplish their goal of stifling all debate,
they will have to control all media outlets."
While the Obama administration and some Democratic congressional
leaders have denied efforts to reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine," none
have denied efforts to stack the FCC with appointees open to the idea
of reining in talk radio.
"Under the rubric of 'broadcast localism,' it is clear the commission
is proposing no less than a sweeping takeover by Washington
bureaucrats of broadcast media," wrote Rep. John Boehner, House
minority leader, in a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin as far back
as last June. "The proposals and recommendat ions for commission action
contained in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking amount to the stealth
enactment of the Fairness Doctrine, a policy designated to squelch the
free speech and free expression of specifically targeted audiences."
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