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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine
Now that the Democrats are back in power in Congress, there is a lot of talk of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine to mandate the radio stations balance a conservative talk show host with a liberal one. Having lost the control of talk radio in the open marketplace they now want to muzzle conservatives and provide job opportunities for liberal talkers who can't succeed on their own. Kenneth Blackwell takes on this idea.Congressman Hinchey is a liberal and liberals are good at several things. They make entertaining movies and write catchy toe-tapping songs. They even make delicious all natural ice cream. But they can’t figure out talk radio. In fact, they are terrible at it. Al Franken never really competed with Rush Limbaugh as he had promised. And Air America Radio became a better punch line than bottom line.I don't think that such a law could ever get through both houses of Congress. I can't see the Senate Republicans being so stupid as to let such a bill come up for a vote there or, if they did, a Republican president signing it.
While liberals hold a virtual monopoly on broadcast television and print news, many on the left just can’t stomach the reality of a dominant conservative presence on talk radio. They want to give Mr. Franken and his pessimism and rage-filed talk radio comrades something they could not obtain on their own – market share.
This is why liberals are so eager to bring back a roundly rejected and blatantly unconstitutional piece of government intrusiveness know as the Fairness Doctrine. And Hinchey is ready to do the heavy lifting with his Media Ownership Reform Act, which includes reinstatement of the doctrine. If it passes, the legislation would force radio stations that air conservative talk shows to also air liberal shows – regardless of listener interest or sponsor support.
It’s a tried and true strategy intended to silence voices with whom Hinchey and his liberal brethren disagree.
But it is a clear indication of how liberals think. If they don't like what is being said, they want to regulate it out of existence. We've seen how unsuccessful they've been in limiting critical campaign ads with campaign finance reform. With the explosion of radio in the past few years on AM, FM and satellite radio, the last thing we need to do is try to dictate to radio program managers what content they should be playing.Labels: The media
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Now that the Democrats are back in power in Congress, there is a lot of talk of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine to mandate the radio stations balance a conservative talk show host with a liberal one. Having lost the control of talk radio in the open marketplace they now want to muzzle conservatives and provide job opportunities for liberal talkers who can't succeed on their own. Kenneth Blackwell takes on this idea.
But it is a clear indication of how liberals think. If they don't like what is being said, they want to regulate it out of existence. We've seen how unsuccessful they've been in limiting critical campaign ads with campaign finance reform. With the explosion of radio in the past few years on AM, FM and satellite radio, the last thing we need to do is try to dictate to radio program managers what content they should be playing.
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Now that the Democrats are back in power in Congress, there is a lot of talk of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine to mandate the radio stations balance a conservative talk show host with a liberal one. Having lost the control of talk radio in the open marketplace they now want to muzzle conservatives and provide job opportunities for liberal talkers who can't succeed on their own. Kenneth Blackwell takes on this idea.
Congressman Hinchey is a liberal and liberals are good at several things. They make entertaining movies and write catchy toe-tapping songs. They even make delicious all natural ice cream. But they can’t figure out talk radio. In fact, they are terrible at it. Al Franken never really competed with Rush Limbaugh as he had promised. And Air America Radio became a better punch line than bottom line.I don't think that such a law could ever get through both houses of Congress. I can't see the Senate Republicans being so stupid as to let such a bill come up for a vote there or, if they did, a Republican president signing it.
While liberals hold a virtual monopoly on broadcast television and print news, many on the left just can’t stomach the reality of a dominant conservative presence on talk radio. They want to give Mr. Franken and his pessimism and rage-filed talk radio comrades something they could not obtain on their own – market share.
This is why liberals are so eager to bring back a roundly rejected and blatantly unconstitutional piece of government intrusiveness know as the Fairness Doctrine. And Hinchey is ready to do the heavy lifting with his Media Ownership Reform Act, which includes reinstatement of the doctrine. If it passes, the legislation would force radio stations that air conservative talk shows to also air liberal shows – regardless of listener interest or sponsor support.
It’s a tried and true strategy intended to silence voices with whom Hinchey and his liberal brethren disagree.
But it is a clear indication of how liberals think. If they don't like what is being said, they want to regulate it out of existence. We've seen how unsuccessful they've been in limiting critical campaign ads with campaign finance reform. With the explosion of radio in the past few years on AM, FM and satellite radio, the last thing we need to do is try to dictate to radio program managers what content they should be playing.
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