Talk radio needs some balance [petulant liberal jeremiad BARF ALERT]

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 12/23/02 | Wayne Madsen

[rhema]

Don't laugh but "Public Broadcasting" already has a "Fairness Doctrine". That's right, they are required by law to be balanced.

(SNORT...I just blew coffee all over)

Mercifully, I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.

The flaccid enforcement of that law must rank right up there with the non-enforcement of the Beck Decision.

[backhoe]

Back in the '60s and '70's, when I started listening to the radio, WERE in Cleveland used the phrase "talk back radio"

Son offa Gun! Just proves there really is nothing new under the Sun!

[Lennie]

The reason liberals aren't big into talk show is that they don't like to be challenged because they can't defend their agenda. On talk show, there would be people calling in and the libs would not be able to answer caller's comments.

It's a free enterprise and nobody is keeping liberals from starting their own program, providing they have sponsers. It's been tried and they know they wouldn't last.

[gunnedah]

NPR is a government funded liberal setup. Where is the government funding for Conservative Radio? The Liberal Democrats want a dictaorship like they had in "The Mainstream Media" for years. With the coming of the Internet and Cable News 'The Mainstream Media" is having trouble brainwashing the nation like the Demoncrats and Liberals have for years.Just watch all of these off the wall organizations will go to sceaming the same way.Every subversive and liberal agenda in the world is pushed through the so called "Mainstream Media" simply because like the education system in this country it has been taken over by "KOOKS".

[goldstategop]

What upsets Wayne Madsen is the public doesn't want to listen to liberals' tell them how wrong they are, how eeevil America is, and how the Republicans are a blight upon our political landscape. People don't want to hear it, period. The problem liberals have isn't a lack of sufficient outlets to spread their message; its their message the public rejects. And Madsen's wanting to revisit the Fair Doctrine won't change one iota the chilly public reception towards the liberal vision for America and its future.

[Calvin Locke]

Here's a thread (different day, same theme) from yesterday. I'm guessing I can probably guess what the DNC fax machines were spewing out last week.

Why Talk Radio Runs to the Right

[metesky]

It's the bottom-line, stupid.

People who despise capitalism can never be expected to understand this simple truth.

[johnny7]

... the failed attempt of Mario Cuomo?

Oh yeah... he was hilarious. It was a while back but I remember his show.

Most of his callers were Republicans who didn't buy his crap. Mario got pissed and took his toys home.

Socialists don't want to have a political conversation... they want you on your knees and in debt.

[dighton]

It's quite simple, Wayne. When I'm driving and listening to talk radio, I don't need someone like you NAGGING me.

[smith288]

[Always Right]

Soon, both local and nationally syndicated Rush wannabes began offering a daily concoction of right-wing politics to a public that largely ignored their local newspapers and relied upon the radio rants for their news.

Well, that is an outright lie. Rush's listeners get their news from many diverse sourses. Rush is a suppliment to the left-wing Newspapers and Networks for most of his listeners.

Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois told National Public Radio that there is "station after station of right-wing screamers."

LOL, he mentions NPR without mentioning they are the taxpayers funded left-wing zeolots. Of course left-wing zeolots can't survive on their own.

[kcordell]

It's not equal time they want, it's suppression of information they want.

Brilliant point.

[dighton]

... conspired to keep Perot out of the debates.

From Paul Shanklin and me, a hearty welcome to FreeRepublic.

;-)

[jackd]

You should try reading the ultra-liberal Baltimore Sun. If this article is crying for fairness in reporting, haven't they ever heard of national public radio? NPR is as blatantly one-sided as Rush but their subtlety in spreading the liberal mantra is well known. Does this individual perhaps live in a cave?

[MarkL]

Well, that is an outright lie. Rush's listeners get their news from many diverse sourses. Rush is a suppliment to the left-wing Newspapers and Networks for most of his listeners.

As Rush used to say, "I AM equal time!"

Mark

[wayoverontheright]

The Fairness Doctrine was scrapped by the FCC in 1987 during a time when Ronald Reagan was out to get the government out of practically every facet of our lives. But the deregulation by the FCC of radio only ensured that mega-media corporations were able to gobble up more and more independently owned stations and then offer up zealots like Rush Limbaugh and what Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., calls Rush wannabes on hundreds of radio stations across the country.

"There's just too much FREEDOM around here, I tell you, and we need the GOVERNMENT to do something about it."

"I'll bet there's a right wing conspiracy to go into homes, cars and businesses and FORCE the people to listen to that right wing spew."

[aculeus]

The sole regular political commentator on NPR is Daniel Schorr. Your tax dollars at work.

[Drango]

Check out an old article from NPR link where they assert their mission as balancing "talk radio"
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Media Matters

NPR: Is it Left, Right or Center?

By Jeffrey A. Dvorkin
Ombudsman
National Public Radio

NPR can't shake the reputation that it's biased in favor of the left.

Listeners (and those who say they are) write constantly to complain about what they sense is a partisan role by NPR specifically and by public radio overall.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that NPR is as left leaning as a lot of media critics claim it is. But a recent study of radio talk shows claims that there are now more than 50 nationally syndicated conservative talk show hosts. Wouldn't the predominance of conservative radio talk shows mean that NPR is actually fulfilling an important civic role in providing other perspectives?...