Fairness Doctrine Senate Hearings on the Way?

[Truthmatters]

One reason this doctrine is stupid (how fitting is that):

If the Conservatives willing to listen to Rush want to stick with the old technology of radio ... let them. Hell, let them even continue to watch the brain melting TV (I watch too much myself). The funny thing is that the far left are forgetting one really good fact, guess who uses the net more? You think Obama won because of all the TV and radio coverage? Most of his campaign was done online. Different types of people use different media outlets ... it just happens that more people who like Rush and the others listen to radio, while more of us who don't are using the net. TV is about middle. Really, media shows or airs what gets ratings, that is how they get the money to stay open. If you want the programming to add something, get a bunch of people to call into the station itself and tell them, if there is enough of a demand they will air it so they can increase their profits.

Yes, Rush is a jerk, but if that's what people who listen to those stations want then the station would be more wrong if they replaced him. I never listen to the radio anyway, and online I can find hundreds of sites that cater to my views (if I wanted to I could go there).

This answers nohting about what the fairness doctrine covers.

What harm would the law do any side?

Forcing someone to sacrifice ratings just to appease a small group is like telling a grocery store they have to give away half their food just because one person is starving.

Nope it is nothing like that at all.

It would be more like forcing the store not to sell rotten food.

 

[KittenKoder]

Media and media coverage is not a right, it's an industry. Like all industries it depends on supply and demand. Without the demand they got out of business.

 

[Truthmatters]

Where are the customers demanding lies?

 

[KittenKoder]

This answers nohting about what the fairness doctrine covers.

What harm would the law do any side?

Forcing someone to sacrifice ratings just to appease a small group is like telling a grocery store they have to give away half their food just because one person is starving.

Nope it is nothing like that at all.

It would be more like forcing the store not to sell rotten food.

No, not at all. Selling rotten food is bad for business so stores don't need laws to avoid that, smart stores just don't sell it because they would *gasp* lose business.

Okay, we'll change it to this:

It would be like forcing the grocery store to sell only pork products.

 

[sealybobo]

How will you know if they are lying?

check more than one source,,, don't be among the indoctrinated..

I love when the indoctrinated tell others not to be indoctrinated.

 

[WillowTree]

Where are the customers demanding lies?

see what you could do is start yer own radio show and newspapers,, fill it with the truth,, point out and correct every lie somebody ever told, and don't forget to invite them on to tell their side of the story... that ought to keep you busy for awhile..

 

[KittenKoder]

Here is the thing, with media if anyone actually thinks they can do harm to the country through media then you really are simple minded. People who blindly follow what anyone says are morons anyway, no matter who they are following, and if we are a country of morons like that then it's hard to care.

 

[del]

Republicans can't believe that companies like Clearchannel wouldn't put Progressive talk on if it would make them money. Well they won't. It is worth more to them to not give the left a voice.

It is fact. There are markets where Randi Rhodes KILLED Rush Limpballs, yet Clearchannel won't syndicate her? Makes no sense.

Anyways, Ed Schultz got hired by one of these right wing radio stations. Now that the GOP lost, they know they better have some Progressives on or it'll be obvious that they aren't being fair. So Ed will be right in the middle of a bunch of right wing talk shows. BET he kills them in ratings. It'll be in Washington DC. So for 8 years the left didn't have a voice in Washington? Come on guys. You really think Rush is that popular and we have zero lefties that can compete? You are insane.

It's never too obvious how unfair the media is to the left because right wingers call it the liberal media. What a hoot. Notice Rachel Maddow on MSNBC almost always has Pat Pukeanon on. So even on a lefty show, the right get representation? But we don't on Bill O or Slananty or Hush Limpballs? Crazy!

Did you hear?

News Corp. Suffers Staggering $6.4 Billion Loss

News Corp. Suffers Staggering $6.4 Billion Loss

you're a fucking idiot. why do you think corps are in business? if they could make money having someone read from mao's little red book they'd do it in a heartbeat you stooge. deny the left a voice-what a crock of shit.

tell me again how bush 1 set up jimmy carter and the iran hostages as director of CIA while you're at it.

 

[xsited1]

The First Amendment was not written as a constraint on private speech, but rather as a direct restraint on government actions as they relate to speech. Do you really want government officials to sit in judgment of what is "fair" and determine when certain groups are allowed to co-opt others’ property for their own purposes? All the arguments for the (un)Fairness Doctrine are bogus. Freedom-loving Americans are smart enough to know it's a very, very bad idea.

 

[KittenKoder]

Where are the customers demanding lies?

see what you could do is start yer own radio show and newspapers,, fill it with the truth,, point out and correct every lie somebody ever told, and don't forget to invite them on to tell their side of the story... that ought to keep you busy for awhile..

Sadly there are enough conspiracy nuts to actually make that profitable.

 

[WillowTree]

How will you know if they are lying?

check more than one source,,, don't be among the indoctrinated..

I love when the indoctrinated tell others not to be indoctrinated.

you far lefties sound more like communists every passing day..

 

[Truthmatters]

How about we just force them to allow opposing commentary.

It would apply to all sides so there is NO harm to any side.

 

[del]

How will you know if they are lying?

you'll be quoting them here.

 

[Truthmatters]

Who owns the airwaves and why do they own them?

 

[WillowTree]

Who owns the airwaves and why do they own them?

communists,, if you have your way!

 

[Sinatra]

How about we just force them to allow opposing commentary.
It would apply to all sides so there is NO harm to any side.

You cannot actually be oblivious to the implications you are offering here.

Can you?

Where does such policing of ideas stop?

Please consider what you are saying!

 

[KittenKoder]

How about we just force them to allow opposing commentary.

It would apply to all sides so there is NO harm to any side.

Um yeah ... key word is hilighted.

 

[Truthmatters]

How is it anything like the government controlling the speach?

It would be the public who can insist on rebutal time NOT the gov.

Tell me PLEASE who owns the airwaves adn why they own them?

 

[Truthmatters]

How about we just force them to allow opposing commentary.

It would apply to all sides so there is NO harm to any side.

Um yeah ... key word is hilighted.

Who owns the airwaves and why do they own them?

 

[xsited1]

How about we just force them to allow opposing commentary.

It would apply to all sides so there is NO harm to any side.

Wonderful troll post!

You are quite possibly the best troll I have ever seen.