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Posted By RedRiverJ 8 months ago in NewsDurbin Doctrine' includes 'frightening new government censorship powers'
Free speech advocates have raised alarms over the possibility of a new so-called "Fairness Doctrine" that would regulate speech over the radio airwaves, and now one media leader has suggested a litmus test is needed to protect First Amendment rights from President Obama and his appointees.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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FTA-Obama says, "I'm committed to having the FCC review what our current policies are in terms of media diversification.
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FTA-Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., just days ago proposed a "diversity" plan in the U.S. Senate, earning approval from members.
LIBERAL TRANSLATION: We are going to censor Rush Limbaugh and all his conservative counterparts.-
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Beau78908 months ago
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"Media diversification."
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That means less consolidation of media in the hands of so few. It means more owners of TV and radio stations.
If you think the mainstream media is biased toward liberals, then why wuldn't you consider splitting up the five or so enormous media conglomerates that control mainstream media by owning several TV and radio stations and newspapers a good thing? After all, it would increase the number of viewpoints expressed, and break up that so-called liberal monopoly on the media.
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BB648 months ago
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Once again the party of that claims to defend the rights of all is taking rights away from us again. The only good thing that seems to be happening, at least in my corner of the world, the DNC strangle hold seems to be weakening. Just like communism's empty promises, I think people are realizing the empty promises of Obama and the left.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view=88823
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Check out another one joining the drumbeat for the fairness doctrine.
This is not an issue between republicans and democrats or liberals and conservatives.
The American people VS the Federal Government. Once this is allowed it will be easy for them to shut up the citizens of this country. -
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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Sure it is. If this passes it will be bad for all americans. Once the government gets that much control it's only a matter of time until it effects us directly. They get their hands on anything they ruin it, tax it, control it. And control is what this is all about.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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FTA_"A regulation of speech motivated by nothing more than a desire to silence political opposition on controversial issues of public interest is the purest example of a law abridging the freedom of speech," said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center.
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bubba28 months ago
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Ah, World Net Daily - one of the best sources of inaccuracies and mis-information.
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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_li...
http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches...
Senator Durbin, along with 86 other senators, voted to keep the Fairness Doctrine in the grave. All Durbin's amendment, which passed on a party-line vote 57-41, would do is clarify that the FCC could continue carrying out its core mission -- as enshrined in the Communications Act of 1934 (http://www.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf) -- to promote competition, localism and diversity in the media.
There's no legal way for the FCC to use ownership rules or localism requirements to censor content. In theory, the agency could ask broadcasters to hold community events and get feedback from their listeners in exchange for their lucrative licenses to use the public airwaves.
All the rest is an absurd fantasy completely divorced from reality and history, which shows broadcast licenses have been revoked in only the most extreme and rare circumstances. (Like a KKK-run TV station in Mississippi in 1969.) -
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bubba28 months ago
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L. Brent Bozell III of the Media Research Center - who publicly demanded that the new FCC chief publicly disavow use of the "frightening new governmental censorship powers" allegedly handed to him by Senator Durbin - was for the "Durbin Doctrine" before he was against it.
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In fact, Bozell and his colleagues not only have encouraged the FCC to keep an eye out for smut, but they've long opposed runaway media consolidation and supported more local ownership.
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bubba28 months ago
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There is no chance the Fairness Doctrine will come back. There's no bill to reinstate it in Congress, no proceeding before the FCC that would resurrect it, and no public interest advocates are campaigning for it. President Barack Obama has unequivocally and repeatedly stated his opposition to its return.
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cowboygrandpa8 months ago
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I'm all for free speech !!! One of the most important rights we have.
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So why do you want to deny the truth and allow propaganda to be thought of as the truth.
That is not free speech that is a license to lie and steal.
I don't care if all your right wing propaganda spouting mouthpieces spew lies all day, nor do I care if the left wing propaganda spouting mouthpieces spew lies all day.
As long as they have to admit they are propaganda spouting shills and they are politically motivated hacks. With no real desire to se America return to being America instead of the land of special interests and greed.
I mean come on. Lets just put it under the truth in advertising law. Because that is all the shills are doing. Advertising for their party and lying while doing it. -
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Wolfie20078 months ago
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Broadcasting especially AM radio is doing fine just like it is so why change anything even the mainstream leftist media. It really is amazing what Rush did for AM radio it was a total void until Rush came along. He and others of talk radio revived a whole industry now liberal, progressive, democrats want to destroy it because they haven't' been able to compete in that arena. They, the lpd's, are always trying to save jobs, I wonder how many jobs would be lost in this business sector if the Durbin Doctrine or one of it's clones are ever passed into law?
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Commodore18 months ago
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The liberals better be very careful here. I don't think they understand what kind of trouble this can create. This could trigger a civil war. The liberals think they can sneak a socialist society right under our noses w/no consequences. I don't believe they will be able to do it w/out a war.
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