Feinstein might push for fairness doctrine

But you should be flattered RR; at least someone reads your posts

Besides this thread is not about the viability of Air America its about renewing the fairness in broadcasting doctrine.

And togetic i did comment on your post or at least part of it.

Originally posted by Togetic
As productive as the "Yes!" "No!" "Yes!" "No!" partisan back-and-forth is, I was wondering if someone had an opinion on my comments above.

Sorry, Togetic, I thought grover would respond, since it really was a response to him.

Instead, it degenerated into a "garr! I'm a Liberal! I hate Conservatives!" and "yarr! I'm a Conservative! Damn those Libs!" joke. What we need now is less ideology and more reason, more logic, more actually understanding the implications and results of these policies.


Personally, Togetic, I agree. I think that all that this could serve to do is 1) destroy the ability of networks to schedule programming based on what people want to see and 2) polarize things into simple "I'm for!" "I'm against!" style thinking. It's ultimately worthless if you want things to be "fair".

It was a sound policy for almost 40 years and it never did any of those things.

by Grover:
AND for those who will inevitably claim this is an attempt to silence conservative voices, well it isn't. It is an attempt to reestablish what has been sorely missing in this country for 20+ years now, an educated and informed electorate.

No it isn't! Feinstein would never admit it but liberal talk radio has never succeeded and never will. Conservative ideas sell in the radio marketplace and liberal ideas don't. That has been proven over and over. Put liberals on the talk shows 50 percent of the time and people will turn off the radio. End of radio program. Stations understand this and will fight Feinstein and Hillary.
What does balance out talk radio is the hourly national news. CBC, NBC, they're always far left and always will be. Conservative news doesn't sell cause people want something more alarmist, skeptical, and paranoid. Conservative doesn't do it.

Oh those poor misunderstood picked on and abused conservatives.

Just to get the facts straight, here are the Top Ten US Newspapers. Notice how many have a liberal bias:

Newspaper & link Sept. 30, 2005
daily circ. '04-'05
change Streak Ownership

1 USA Today 2,220,863 +66,333 +2 Gannett Co., Inc.
2 Wall Street Journal 2,106,774 +15,712 +6 Dow Jones
3 New York Times 1,121,057 +2,492 +6 New York Times
4 Los Angeles Times 902,164 -12,420 -5 Tribune Co.
5 New York Daily News 715,052 -14,072 -1
6 Washington Post 707,690 -25,182 -4 Washington Post
7 New York Post 686,207 +33,781 +8
8 Chicago Tribune 600,988 -79,891 -1 Tribune Co.
9 Houston Chronicle 554,783 +1,765 +5 Hearst Newspapers
10 Dallas Morning News 519,014 +8,881 +3 A.H. Belo Corp.

www.freep.com...

In addition, the following television networks are liberal:
NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. Then there are our colleges and universities, which are overwhelmingly staffed by liberals.

The Fairness Doctrine would force radio stations to present equal time to liberal and conservative viewpoints. This, of course, is because Feinstein and others are desperately afraid of the influence that talk radio has. If radio were liberal-biased, she would not be pushing this doctrine, believe me.

Grover thinks this is a noble ideal. He wants the government to create a "level playing field" in radio. I say, leave the government out of it, and let the people choose what they want to listen to.

Grover:
Oh those poor misunderstood picked on and abused conservatives

Grover, my daugher is in radio, she's liberal and agrees with me. Just thought you should get the inside scoup!

Jsobecky:
The Fairness Doctrine would force radio stations to present equal time to liberal and conservative viewpoints. This, of course, is because Feinstein and others are desperately afraid of the influence that talk radio has. If radio were liberal-biased, she would not be pushing this doctrine, believe me

I agree entirely!

In addition, the following television networks are liberal: (long alphabet list of TV, media, universitys and radio stations that didn't come through)

So we are up to our ears in liberal institutions in this society. Leave talk radio alone so we can have some sanity!!!!!