Okay Kori, How You Gonna Work This

[George Gervin's Afro]

Even after taking into consideration the damage that talk radio has done to this country I still cannot fathom a fairness doctrine.

[xrayzebra]

....TV and radio stations do not own the airwaves they rent the airwaves from the FCC..in exchange these en ies are supposed to look over the common good of our republic....when these stations refuse to protect this responsibility and the FCC is inept because it has been corrupted by the very en y it is supposed to oversee, then it's the responsibility of every American to take back these airwaves....so spare me the dialog about infringed ownership rights...if these responsibilities had not been abridged in the first place we would not be at this point....and the will of the people of the repubic will survive any judicial review...

You statement is not entirely true. Cable television is not owned or controlled by government. That is the reason why they can get away with language and nudity rules.

Fairness doctrine is in essence "censorship". Because the stations will not go to the trouble of having opposing views aired. Hence, will stick to bland non-controversial programming. Newspapers, printed matter, will not be affected, like in the past. So guess who gets to put out their point of view? And you can bet your bottom dollar they will want to control inter-net, a liberals worst enemy.

[xrayzebra]

Even after taking into consideration the damage that talk radio has done to this country I still cannot fathom a fairness doctrine.

Please pray tell, what damage has talk radio done to this country. Given opinions contrary to yours? That is not damage, it is an improved thought process.

[2centsworth]

simply put, the left thinks the right is damaging, so censoring the right is for the greater good. I get it. I'm sure Fox News is next.

[Nbadan]

simply put, the left thinks the right is damaging, so censoring the right is for the greater good. I get it. I'm sure Fox News is next.

Perhaps you'd have a point if anyone took guys like Rush, Insannity, or other wing-nuts shills seriously...but, their listener-ship has been in decline for years...it's not much 'fashionable' anymore to announce that you listen to these blow-hards and take what they say seriously (unless your Xray)...so it's clearly not just about that...instead, it's about being manipulated into needless wars, like the war in Iraq and possible wars with Iran and Russia...it's about influencing elections with political spin that never gets checked for accuracy by the M$M...it's about pointing out and stopping corruption in our government, a thing which the M$M used to do with pride until media consolidation....it's about the FCC being so corrupt with Bush shills that they refuse to do their jobs and take guys who call for riots on American streets or the lynching of fellow Americans on the public airwaves off the air once and for all...

[JoeChalupa]

It is all fair in politics these days.

[Wild Cobra]

Perhaps you'd have a point if anyone took guys like Rush, Insannity, or other wing-nuts shills seriously...but, their listener-ship has been in decline for years...

There you go again, shortchanging the truth...

Yes, there audienvce is decreasing, as an individual. However, conservative listeners are growing.

You see, there is a simple thing called compe ion. As more and more conservatives take up radio, they take part of the others audience away! When in the same timeslot, a listener has to make a choice. Rush didn't used to have much compe ion, neither did Shean Hannity. Now they both have good compe ion!

[Wild Cobra]

The fairness doctrine is not 'limiting free speech', per se......wing-nut radio and TV is not restricted from continuing to make asinine comments that surely hurt their own cause....what the fairness doctrine does do, however is to help assure that equal time be given for opposing view-points by M$M conglomerates...a situation which is become dangerously rare today....

That is not what it does in reality. It takes away the free market. Radio stations now must take a loser commentator to balance a winner. Liberals have little radio air time because they don't make radio stations money. Forcing radio station to balance their programming with time that becomes lost revenues will make some decide to go back to music.

How about this. Take music programming and force Hip-Hop station to play classical music also. Make rock and roll stations play rap too! Would you support that?

Why can't you lib s understand and support the American way?

[CubanMustGo]

Why do you have to insult people who don't agree with your POV?

[Wild Cobra]

Why do you have to insult people who don't agree with your POV?

Me?

If you mean me, I only outright attack a few posters here. Others, I don't attack except when I do a counterstrike.