Posted on 01/12/2007 5:32:02 PM PST by BlueJ7
I genuinely fear this, however.
I've enjoyed news/drama/comedy radio since the 1940s. I am ecstatic with modern talk radio. I lived through the decades of the "Fairness Doctrine."
When President Reagan ended the "Fairness Doctrine" and modern talk radio began the most oft-heard caller comments were, "I didn't know others knew about that!" "I thought I was the only one who believed that way!"
There won't be a new "Fairness Doctrine." There are too many sources of information. The courts were about to end it if Reagan had not.
There is however the "threat" to democracy as outlined in the very popular on the left (NY Times, for example) book, "Republic.com."
Literally, the government should force Internet users, for example, to consider all opinions. "No more conservative web sites only, Mister! Our democracy is in peril from such 'narrow' conservative thinking, see." The author may have backed off a little on forcing compliance.
Mr. Stark (please see my reply above) used a word to describe yet another "threat" to our democracy. It conveyed the idea of threatening social order, a word less shrill than hatemonger. I can't remember it.
I say again: This cannot be ignored. Congress must know that we will not stand for it.
Already there's a proposal in Congress that would require conservative talk show hosts to register as "lobbyists." Recently a Seattle radio station was deemed by a court to have contributed money to an election campaign solely because one of the hosts opposed a ballot measure on air.
This cannot be ignored.
Bravo!! Great future vision!
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If we lose talk radio, we lose the war. That simple.
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There is a good reason why rebels storm the broadcast towers and stations. Those who control the media, win.
Worked for Hitler to start his war with Poland didn't it. Had a squad dressed like Poles come across, attack the radio station, make a broadcast, then run back across to Poland (or so they put out). The control the MSM, TV, etc. Talk radio is it for us. That is all we have beside the internet. And a lot of people do not get news from the internet. They get their sports, buy stuff, and porn (LOL)!!!
The 3 hours long special show from yesterday on this topic can be heard on the KSFO website.
I listened to hour 1 today.
So "Air America" would have been illegal under the Fairness Doctrine, even if it did not die all by itself just due to market forces.
"Liberals just want attention, that's all."
Bull. Libs want control. CONTROL! Total Control. Over every facit of YOUR life. They want socialism. Worse, they would happily kill every person who uttered a conservative idea. They are rabid and unending in their efforts. They are Islamists without the rags.
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