Is it not enough that 90% of all of MSM votes Democrat? Is it not enough that NPR is socialist? The Democrats still feel the need to juice up the propaganda machine some more by silencing the only market driven segment of the media market … talk radio. The(Un)Fairness doctrine will kill this medium and the power hungry socialists in the Democrat party know it.
Who wants to put Al Franken on after three hours of Rush? At one point when the AM630 put Sam Donaldson after Limbaugh for a couple of hours, the station manager said, “The audience may experience some cultural dissonance.” Oh, thats what you a reaction akin to Blutarski’s when he saw Flounder’s picture on the wall. Got it.
Nancy Pelosi the other day made some incredible statements regarding this infringement upon the first ammendment …
“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.
“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation
OK, so censorship of the media is a good thing because? This cuts both ways people, at some point it will be your opinion that could get the ax in the name of ‘fairness’. This bill is being called the ‘Hush Rush’ bill so those on both the left and right know who is targeted. Since Al Franken flopped despite millions in seed money, the left has decided to simply end the discussion. Such courage deserves scorn to say the least.
A petition has been organized by the Media Research Center to help move ‘The Broadcaster
Freedom Act’ to the House floor. Pelosi said that The Broadcaster Freedom Act “wouldn’t see the light of day”. This coupled with the strong Democrat Speakers support for a revival of the “Fairness Doctrine”and the government censorship of our free speech rights brings me to ask all to sign this petition BEFORE FRIDAY.
The idea is to do to the speaker what conservatives did to the amnesty mess and overwhelm Pelosi with a message from the grassroots that even she can’t ignore. Signing this petition can make a difference, our free speech rights are under attack due to naked partisanship.
UPDATE
On Friday, over 100,000 of petitions were delivered to each of the following members of Congress:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY)
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY)
Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA)
Rep. Robert Wittman (R-VA)
Rep. Ralph Regula (R-OH)
Rep. Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV)
Copies were also delivered to Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) who taken the lead in the fight to end government censorship over the radio airwaves once and for all.
Your petitions were all the more timely and relevant, coming on the heels of Speaker Pelosi’s remarks stating her intentions were to keep the Broadcast Freedom Act in the dark, while working to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine.”
Drudge has a quote from Obama’s press secretary inclining that BO does not support the Fairness Doctrine. My take is that it doesn’t matter, if BO gets elected he won’t be running the country, Pelosi and Reid will.
Sad times, my friends (to quote another presidential candidate).
This is not limited to the “Fairness Doctrine” but about political corruption that has led to the hijacking of our airwaves.
The airwaves are the PROPERTY of the People, not Clear Channel, not some Jewish cabal in Hollywood and certainly not the property of the multinational conglomerates. However, if we examine the behavior of our FCC and Congress with regard to the media over the last thirty years, no effort has been successfully made to ensure competition or local control of radio and television; just the opposite has been the case.
Multinationals have been allowed to buy most formerly locally owned, independent stations. Those that remain in local hands are often religious propaganda stations that are low power and of limited audience.
If our Democrats really want fairness and our Republicans really want competition, then lets see some strong anti-trust action by the Congress and the FCC directed at the radio and television oligopolies.
Here’s how to get fairness and competition back into the broadcast media:
Require only local ownership of stations, where the owner must reside in the market area of his station. Limit ownership to only ONE station by any entity and forbid an owner of a radio station from owning any other broadcast or print business.
These straight-forward steps would ensure that multinationals are kicked out of the market. It would ensure that stations would be owned by local, independent owners, who would need to be responsive to local issues.
Having license caveats that include requirements for limits on the number of commercials per hour and for a certain number of hours of public affairs programming per week should be included. If one examines the media in other countries where there are no requirements for public affairs programs or commercial limits, the quality of programming provided for the People is utterly worthless.
By re-creating the millions of locally owned, “mom and pop” stations across America, personalities like Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck would have to sell their programs on the open market, and they would compete with thousands of other programs that would be created by this more open market that would be created through independent station ownership.
The reason “real change” has not happened is because our government is corrupt. Both incumbent Democrats and Republicans are on the take; they are “owned” by the multinationals.
We, the People, must seize control and throw all of the incumbents out of office and allow our legislative bodies to get a fresh start. The current crop have no incentive to change the lobbying rules and they surely will never do harm to their big-money, multinational, owners.
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