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To: MarDav
So much of the vitriol in political and public discourse today can be laid at the feet of these propagandists who have used a Chinese-water-torture approach to dulling the political sense of Americans to the point where these monolithic beasts feel it is their duty and obligation to filter our news, tell us what is important in the world, shade and distort stories to accommodate a particular (and left-ward) ideology. The mind-numbed, knowing no better, feel a sense of outrage when someone thinks it could be any different from what Dan, or Tom, or Peter have told them it must be.

You are right, we don't want government infringing on free speech. But we also don't want arrogant demagogues ruling our (yes, OUR) airwaves and foisting on us the narrowness that is their opinion.

There are many people who would buy that statement, word for word, except that they would substitute "right-ward" for "left-ward". That is, there are many people who believe that Dan, Tom and Peter slant the news to the right. Should they be in charge of what goes out over "our" airwaves? I prefer letting the marketplace of ideas sort it out, especially now that the market includes talk radio and the web.

441 posted on 09/13/2004 5:29:03 PM PDT by xlib
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To: xlib

hmm so interfering with a federal election via the public airwaves is fine with you... sheesh that is a bit scary don't ya think?

You can say whatever you want as a citizen but to put out false statements backed up by forged government documents and report it as news (not an opinion mind you) doesn't cross any lines with you?


460 posted on 09/13/2004 6:05:00 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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