Posted on 02/02/2012 7:51:58 AM PST by tutstar
Actual title is : It’s baaack! The plan to kill talk radio. Group advising White House wants to restore controversial policy
An organization that helped to craft President Obama’s environmental policies has recommended the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, purportedly as a method of silencing critics of the theory of global warming.
The Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, last year released an extensive list of recommendations for the White House in a 75-page paper entitled, “Building the Obama Administration’s Climate Legacy.”
Primary among the PCAP’s recommendations is that the Department of Energy should join the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) what is known as the Partnership for Sustainable Communities.
The Partnership, which distributes over $1 billion in grants, says it aims to “help communities nationwide improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment.”
Another key recommendation in the report is the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine.
Reads the PCAP report: “National discourse today is tainted – and in some cases poisoned – by unbalanced ideological use of the public airwaves… To improve and better inform public discourse, it is time for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.”
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the Federal Communications Commission that required the holders of broadcast licenses to issues of public importance in a manner that was, in the Commission’s view, honest, equitable and balanced.
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Add me to your ping list and see my post #60. There are many more videos including a 3 parter by Jesse Ventura.
Who are they trying to silence? The recently exposed GOP mouthpieces in talk radio? A few months ago, this would have had me up in arms. Rush, Beck, Savage, et al. should be glad that most of us will oppose this on principle.
Ironically, the talk radio blowhards will bend over backwards trying to get us to vote for Romney when, in all likelihood, he’d support something like this.
Look for it to be thrown out by the Supremes in a outbursts of laughter!
I tad my hubby that the other day.Combine that with the new mortgage program where you will refi with the government we are but steps away from the government having access to all properties if people are dumb enough to finace with them.
I tad my hubby that the other day.Combine that with the new mortgage program where you will refi with the government we are but steps away from the government having access to all properties if people are dumb enough to finance with them.
Yawn. Talk radio is already dead. Even conservative talkers (Mark Levin, excepted) are part of the establishment media. They won’t kill it because it already serves them. They will just make it more difficult for new challengers to arise.
Evil never rests.
Well said!!!!
They can say whatever they want. As long as they mutter amongst themselves I don’t care.
We do not need their idiocy to become policy because they have the ear of the bureaucrats.
And so long as those bureaus are openly radical leftist because of the policies of the head of the executive branch, they are a danger to have those ideas implemented.
Then I have a real problem. As will we all.
These are the Dupes, Leftists and Communists who admit to being this group’s advisors. Note that Gary Hart and Van Jones are included.
Members of the National Advisory Committee are:
Co-chair:
Gary Hart
U.S. Senator (ret.)
Wirth Chair, University of Colorado Denver
Chairman Emeritus:
Ray Anderson
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Interface Inc.
Members:
Scott Bernstein
President
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Jennifer Morgan
Director, Climate Energy Program
World Resources Institute
April Bucksbaum
Vice President
The Baum Foundation
Michael Northrup
Program Director
Sustainable Development
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Brian Castelli
Executive Vice President
Alliance to Save Energy
David Orr
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor
Environmental Studies and Politics
Oberlin College
Roger Clark
Air and Energy Program Director
Grand Canyon Trust
John L. Peterson
President
The Arlington Institute
Reid Detchon
Executive Director
Energy Future Coalition
Tom Peterson
Founder, President & CEO
Center for Climate Strategies
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Chair
Plains Justice Theodore Roosevelt IV
Chair
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Seth Farbman
Managing Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
President
OgilvyEarth
Larry Schweiger
President and CEO
National Wildlife Federation
Amy Fraenkel
Director, Regional Office for North America
United Nations Environment Programme
James Gustave “Gus” Speth
Former Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale University
Boyd Gibbons
Former President
Johnson Foundation
Jeremy Symons
Director Global Warming Campaign
National Wildlife Federation
Sherri Goodman
Senior Vice President General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Center for Naval Analysis
Terry Tamminen
Cullman Senior Fellow and Climate Policy Director
New America Foundation
Van Jones
Board President & Co-Founder
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Heidi VanGenderen
Director of Regional and National Outreach
American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
L. Hunter Lovins
President
Natural Capitalism Solutions
Carol Werner
Executive Director
Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Erin Meezan
Vice President Sustainability
Interface, Inc.
THE SHOREBANK, OBAMA, CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE SCAM!
Shorebank didn't close even though it was reported. It's still open under another name.
Things have changed since 1987. Back then conservative talk programs were just coming on to the scene in a big way. The Fairness Doctrine back then most likely would have benefitted conservatives. Not so today, 25 years later.
I don’t think I agree with that.
BTTT....
TV is 99% leftist, why don’t they try balancing that?
That doesn't matter. I don't oppose the Fairness Doctrine because it would harm conservatives, I oppose it because it would harm liberty and is inconsistent with the First Amendment. That was as true in 1987 as it is today, and the fact that it would have politically benefitted conservatives was no excuse for supporting it. Either we defend the Constitution or we don't, and supporting an unconstitutional policy because it would help "our" side is about as far from defending the Constitution as you can get.
When facts aren’t on your side, silence the opposition
That is how tyrants operate
Well I don’t know,Jesus probably wants him to do this also.
He will probably quote something from the bible,Thou shall not bear false witness,so I am reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
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