Posted by
Arnie on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:23:46 PM
Yep, it is, and they, the liberal democrats who cannot hold their own, will be trying extra hard to shut down talk radio, and possibly even takefairness into the internet, just to be fair. John Kerry is getting his two cents in. Hillary and Barbara have said they think it might be a good idea to look into the Fairness Doctrine again. Why is it only the liberal politicians who desire to do this? They can't hold their own in the open media. Al Franken and Air America tried, even so far as to pay the stations to broadcast their program. Rush and company and other radio commentators don't pay the stations to put their multi-hour long talk shows on the air. It's a free market. Advertisers pay dearly to have their 30 second spot inserted in the middle of a thought that Rush had. They would not pay for 30 seconds of an Al Franken rant.
Talk radio is a threat as it exposes the lies and hypocrisy of the left. It is free speech. The station owners are free to choose who they want to fill a particular time slot. It's called the free market, and it is open to liberals, if they could make it work economically.
But if it is revived again, talk radio as we know it today will disappear and neither the conservatives nor the liberals will have radio air time. The stations will not be able to find a person capable of expressing the liberal point of view to everything that Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Boortz and company all bring up, and thus could not then put these conservatives on the air for fear of loosing their license and one heck of a large fine.
And that's good enough for the liberals, as that's all they want, and that's all they need. Shut the opposition up.
"These
are the people that wiped out … one of the most profound changes in the
balance of the media is when the conservatives got rid of the equal
time requirements and the result is that they have been able to squeeze
down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views and I think its been a
very important transition in the imbalance of our public eye," Kerry
argued.
Now, if the market has been open to whoever had the talent to draw a large enough audience, and the advertisers would pay, then how is that squeezing out any opposing opinion and competition? That point goes right by me. The imbalance in radio has happened naturally by the rules of economics. Simple as that. Oh, and, what about the liberals controlling an imbalance in the mainstream news outfits. That media belongs to liberals.
It's also strange how they get away with calling unfair regulation the Fairness Doctrine. But here it goes again. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, recently introduced in Congress a plan to revive the Fairness Doctrine.
Can they get away with it this time? We'll see, but these liberals are persistent in their unfairness.