The "Fairness Doctrine"

[SFCHONDO]

actually,...me personally.....i don't give a flying eff about talk radio. if i want to hear these lying SOB's talk, i'll turn on the tv. or better yet, i come here and check the links you guys post. some of them are good. screw talk radio. i listen to radio for the music. what's appaling about radio today, is when you have 12 presets on your car radio, and 10 of those stations all have commercials on all at the same time. THAT is just downright annoying.

Why I have XM radio, less commercials and a ton of music.    Plus i can hear the same station no matter where in the US i drive  

[SteveBailey]

You waited til my post to type that? There are a few above leaning to the home dugout that pretty much stated it another way...

The Bill o' Reilly --Dont bring up something i don't want to acknowledge - response doctrine is catching


 

huh?

[Slash27]

 

[CAP1]

Why I have XM radio, less commercials and a ton of music.    Plus i can hear the same station no matter where in the US i drive  

got sirius.....

[midnight Target]

The "Fairness Doctrine" was in place in this Country up until the late 1980's. I wonder when Rush and his lying ilk started their hate speech?

Anyway all of you guys posting about the good old days need to recall that those days included the fairness doctrine and all that went with it. You want the market to decide what you hear on the radio, and what you will really get is Clear Channel deciding what you listen to on the radio.

[CAP1]

The "Fairness Doctrine" was in place in this Country up until the late 1980's. I wonder when Rush and his lying ilk started their hate speech?

Anyway all of you guys posting about the good old days need to recall that those days included the fairness doctrine and all that went with it. You want the market to decide what you hear on the radio, and what you will really get is Clear Channel deciding what you listen to on the radio.

we don't already have that?? like i mentioned earlier... i often have 10 out of 12 presets all with commercials at the same time.....and about 7 or 8 minutes worth of them. it's like they're all owned by the same company and they WILL make sure we listen to their commercials. it's why i went to sirius radio....

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[lazs2]

Why are the left wing liberals here and in congress not asking for a fairness doctrine for tv and newspapers too?   No talk about politics of any kind.. on the air or in print.. can be left out.. if something about anything or anyone political is said then both the right and the left must be represented.

Jon stewart would need to be balanced.. the new york times...  newsweek and cnn and msnbc.

course.. maybe then the newspapers might get read again but.. with 76% of all reporters identifiying with the left.. there would have to be a lot of firings.

NPR is something I listen to along with right wing stations in my work vehicle..   NPR is so slanted left that it should be obvious to everyone.. not only do they get a pass but we have to pay for it with our tax money.

The left controls the schools.. the left controls all speech and every form of media from print to movies to TV (both broadcast and cable)... the only things they don't control is the internet and some tiny little corner of the radio.. the radio... talk radio.. a media that everyone had declared dead.

It is amazing that we are not all indoctrinated to the little red book like newbie by now.. it is amazing that in all this left wing barrage of info forced down our throat that we find some islands of sanity...

Now they want to take that.. why?  well..   what else can be keeping them from their goal of a socialist utopia???   If only they controlled everything.. utopia could happen.

It is like living in an Ayn Rand novel these days.

lazs

[lazs2]

MT.. when  the fairness doctrine was in effect..   we didn't really even need it.

The media has gone off the deep end liberal wise since then.  The fairness doctrine was meant to give all candidates a fair shot in the media.. at the time, almost exclusively TV.   It was so that candidates with small war chests could get represented.

Now.. every form of media save a tiny little segment of radio and the internet is left wing and the democrats have a much bigger war chest to buy time with.

I think that if we have a fairness doctrine then it should go first to TV and movies..  if you have a left wing documentary for instance.. it needs to be balanced with the showing of the other view..

Who decides what is equal time and for what?   Is rush right wing and needs to be "balanced"?   is NPR left wing and needs to be balanced?  Is newsweek so left wing that it just needs to be double the pages with the new half all written by conservatives?

How bout we let people vote with their money and patronage?

lazs

[midnight Target]

And you know all of this because the guys on the radio told you so.

[Toad]

How bout we let people vote with their money and patronage?

lazs

How unfair! 

[ZetaNine]

The left controls the schools..

they control academia because that's where they all ran to during viet nam.

[ZetaNine]

I think that if we have a fairness doctrine then it should go first to TV and movies..  if you have a left wing documentary for instance.. it needs to be balanced with the showing of the other view..

Who decides what is equal time and for what?   Is rush right wing and needs to be "balanced"?   is NPR left wing and needs to be balanced?  Is newsweek so left wing that it just needs to be double the pages with the new half all written by conservatives?



lazs

disband npr and pbs... or at the very least, remove their govt funding........then bring the debate up again in congress.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The "Fairness Doctrine" was in place in this Country up until the late 1980's. I wonder when Rush and his lying ilk started their hate speech?

Anyway all of you guys posting about the good old days need to recall that those days included the fairness doctrine and all that went with it. You want the market to decide what you hear on the radio, and what you will really get is Clear Channel deciding what you listen to on the radio.

Oh, great, the thought police are here . And Rush has been tried and convicted of "hate speech" . "Hate speech" includes supposedly sexist remarks about the goddess Hillary I'm sure .

Yeah, I like it when the MARKET decides, and not some bureaucrat with little or no knowledge of the subject he is ruling on.

How about this, if YOU want the "left" to get its message out, and it is so important to YOU, why don't YOU pay for it instead of trying to force ME?

Evidently, intelligent people who spend money to buy products listen to conservative talk radio, and it pays the bills for the radio station. However, the left evidently doesn't listen to their own message, and no matter how widely and wildly promoted, not to mention supposedly in demand, their message won't draw flies, much less people who buy products.

It appears that the "mainstream media" has tilted the balance so far that conservative talk radio seems to provide the balance the market demands.

If you do not LIKE conservative talk radio, there's always music, or taxpayer funded public radio with plenty of the message of the "left". So we're already being forced to fund "fairness". But that's never enough. Not for the "left".

[lazs2]

yep.. I think that the things that are subsidized by taxpayers should be the first target of the "fairness" doctrine.

You would of course have to change NPR and public tv radically.   Until you do that there is no reason to even point out that some tiny little corner of radio that doesn't even fake being even handed needs to be muzzled.

The left is infuriated that some tiny little part of the media is not under their control.. it is pitiful.

lazs

[Toad]

I think Skuzzy would probably have to hire some libs to post here as this is clearly a conservatively weighted board.

That means the board would likely go away.


Which may well be the point of the whole enterprise.