Who’s afraid of the big, bad Fairness Doctrine? »
Posted By ameliog 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political OpinionOf all the Big Lies told by the pooh-bahs of talk radio - that our biracial president hates white people, that global warming is a hoax, that a public health care plan to compete with private insurers equals socialism - the most desperate and deluded is this: that the so-called Fairness Doctrine would squash free speech.
Nonsense.
The Fairness Doctrine would not stop talk radio hosts from spewing the invective that has made them so fabulously wealthy. All it would do is subject their invective to a real-time reality check.
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alanocu1 month, 2 weeks ago
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For anyone reading this from Boston, this why I put the Globe in the trash can. It's not as bad as the New York Times, but it's the same mentality that asserts headlines like "Global Warming Solved after worldwide oil ban; triumphant President Gore takes cross-country victory lap in Horse Carriage One."
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If "Fairness" matters, you won't find it the Globe. The Herald is the only paper with editors that actually have a set of globes. Neither of those papers have a set of globes as big as mine, but the Herald is the closest thing to reality that you will read.
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wtagg1 month, 2 weeks ago
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The irony is that the Doctrine was a creation of the Republican congress of the late 40's.
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It is another lesson in government. The policies of one party may be embraced by the opposition. Be careful what power you provide to the government because it may eventually be made a tool by your opposition.-
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b-happy1 month, 2 weeks ago
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"In 1934, the Democrat dominated U.S. Congress prompted by FDR, passed the Communications Act, which abolished the Federal Radio Commission and transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to a new Federal Communications Commission"
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This has always been a Liberal tool to control speech they don't like. Why is it that Liberals can't stand speech that is unpopular? Is it that they are the ones who are misleading America and they don't want to be exposed? I can't figure it out.
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Charlson1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Talk show hosts want no open discourse with opposing views. They only want to broadcast their opines and will not tolerate any dissent. When they do have guests with differing views, these guests are ridiculed or shouted over and made to look foolish, wimpy and easy to intimidate. Their position of power is based on this type of demagoguery.
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And MSM is also colluding with these opinion shows by not questioning their facts or even researching where they get their information.-
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TOD3961 month, 2 weeks ago
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"Talk show hosts want no open discourse with opposing views. They only want to broadcast their opines and will not tolerate any dissent. When they do have guests with differing views, these guests are ridiculed or shouted over and made to look foolish, wimpy and easy to intimidate. Their position of power is based on this type of demagoguery."
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I assume you are talking of both Rush and Bill Press, of both Hannity and Olbermann, etc...
Talk shows are not supposed to do anything but entertain the listener/viewer. If they deem the subject matter worthy, so be it. If they don't then there should only be a government funded program that sends the listener/viewer to a 9 month school that teaches them to either change the channel, or turn off the listening/viewing device.
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crespi1 month, 1 week ago
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When Fundamentalist Christians (Rev. Pete Peters) and ACTUAL swastika wearing Nazis of the White Supremacist group "The Order" murdered (machine-gunned in his Denver driveway) LEFT WING shock-jock Alan Berg (the one man who it is agreed could have publicly held his own against Limbaugh) in 1984 it showed how deadly afraid the ultra-CONservative Fundamentalist Neocons are of fairness.
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They had to KILL (literally) the guy that would make it a fair fight.
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crespi1 month, 1 week ago
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The two murderers are in jail for life and "Reverend Peters" (who preached that "ni*gers are the progeny of Satan and animals and Jews are the progeny of Satan and Lilith" is still on the run from the F.B.I.
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McVeigh was a CONServative, too. Remember?.
He a hero of yours?
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