Liberal Democrats and Republicans are at it again with their interest to undermine freedom of speech and the free market by reinstituting a federal mandate to be placed upon media outlets that would dictate their commentary programming despite the economic viability of such programming. “The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that became known as the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair”. Here’s a link to more information on the “Fairness Doctrine”…
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm
This FCC policy which was instituted in 1949 was eliminated early in the Reagan Administration and there have been several attempts by Congress to put it into law, however, it has always met with Presidential veto.
It seems, despite President Obama’s statement during the campaign to not be interested in revisiting this because diversity is something to be encouraged on the airwaves, he has recently been quite vocal about his opinion of talk radio by making statements like “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” His position and proposals presented on the the White House website mirror those of a liberal think tank report published by John Podesta in June, 2007 called “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio”. Now, many in Congress appear to be lining up to pen legistation to this effect, which will certainly get rubber stamp approval by Obama. Here’s the full WND article…
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88113
As we all know, the reality is that the only way there can be any “fairness” in broadcasting today is for freedom of speech to prevail and for the free market to dictate what programmers will air. Liberals have tried many times to create liberal commentary shows like Air America, however, they never last because nobody listens to and/or watches them. Thinking and intuitive people, those who subscribe to the values and beliefs of our founding fathers and know that adhering to this is what made America the great nation it is today, naturally gravitate to conservatism and that’s the reason for the resounding success of conservative talk radio and cable shows. The mainstream media is on longer a news outlet, but is predominantly a commentary and advertising conduit for liberal policies and proposals. Conservative talk radio and television is required so the American people have an opportunity to understand the other side to that which they are bombarded via the mainstream media. If it is gone, there is nothing to fuel and inform those of us who are interested in taking action to counteract the socialist assault which is currently being perpetrated upon our great nation by the mainstream media, the Obama administration and Congress.
This CANNOT happen. Please contact your Congressmen to let them know how you feel about this. You can, also, sign and forward to others, WND’s petition which will be presented to Congress…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=87882
