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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 10:22 pm: |   |
I didn't thin much about it when it first made the news (the conversation between Hillary and Pelosi).
They talked about a "legislative fix" to kill the impact of talk radio on legislation before the senate (Immigration). Now as it turns out, several senators are talking about re-instating the law that fell by the wayside in 1985 dealing with "equality in broadcasting" For every minute one side was presented equal time has to be given to the other side.
We all know that liberal talk shows on radio failed while Rush Limbaugh and his buddies are very powerful voices. So what the senators want to propose is that the FCC enforce that equality law and radio stations be forced to provide the liberal voice. It is a way to reduce the time Rush and his buddies are on the air. Those stations owners know that three hours of Rush Limbaugh per day earns them money and three hours of liberal talk would cost them a bundle because of the lack of companies willing to spend money on air-time commercials no one would listen to.
Free speech is about to take a big hit. In order to get Rush and other conservative talk show hosts off the air they will sacrifice free speech.
At issue is that they want to control what is said about legislation. Call it censorship if you will. I've complained about how the big news outlets are not reporting much about the Immigration Bill and the reason they don't is the Democrats control those outlets. PARIS, Wrestlers and the like are the HEADLINES and the issue that is centerstage is not being mentioned. Why - because of the liberal control of American media. If you read the BBC, you find more coverage than in the USA.
Were it not for Talk radio the Immigration Bill would have passed months ago. The talk show hosts created the firestorm of protest so that now 88% of Americans don't like the Immigration Bill. Pelosi and Clinton along with Kerry and Kennedy are pushing for a way to get rid opposition to their plans. If this doesn't smack of Nazism what does? Every history teacher and every political science teacher will tell you than in a totaliarism state the first thing to go is free speech and the government censors the press.
How far are these people willing to go to win elections?
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Tom Elkins
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Perry (and all) - It wsn't a law. It was called the Fairness Doctrine, and was ordained by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1950's. I lived with it for 30 years, until the FCC abandoned it in the 1980's.
It was a one paragraph rule which required a 50-page booklet to explain, as is often the case with government rules. But never, ever did it require stations to provide "equal" time. Simply "time for opposing views". It wasn't too bad, although we certainly did not enjoy having rules placed on our programing. I did talk radio in the 60's and 70's. It actually was a vehicle which complied totally with the doctrine. Anybody could call in, and did. ("Equal time" was - and is - required during election periods, under a different set of rules.)
The difference between then and now is Limbaugh, and the second-tier group of conservative nationally syndicated hosts. When I was doing it, it was all local, and government had better things to do than go after us.
Remember, though, the word games they play. That doctrine had nothing to do with "fairness". The new one won't have, either. In fact, it will be grossly UNfair.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Stephen Lodge
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"Anybody could call in, and did..."
Anybody can call Limbaugh, too - as a matter of fact, he tells his call screener to put liberal callers up front.
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