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February 08, 2007
If we could save just one network.....
As someone who tends towards First Amendment absolutism, I have always opposed the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" and I find the idea that anyone would want to bring it back most annoying. For starters, how is anyone supposed to define who or what is the other "side" of a given issue? Are libertarians entitled to weigh in on every issue? How about Communists, fascists, anarchists, Dominionists, femininists, and Islamists? But reading about Air America's bankruptcy (via Glenn Reynolds) made me put on my thinking cap and think real hard. As it happens, my thinking cap is made of tin foil, but never mind that! The point is, I have figured it all out. Had the Fairness Doctrine been brought back, Air America would have been saved. Al Franken and company would have had to allow their conservative counterparts on the air (to counter them). You know, those mean hatemeisters like Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannity, etc. who've been on the air for years. This would have brought both the listeners and advertising dollars that Air America needed to survive. So, unless I am reading this fairness doctrine revival movement wrong, it was a disguised and misunderstood cry for help by lefties who desperately needed the righties but were just too proud to beg. posted by Eric on 02.08.07 at 03:19 PM
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LOL!!! Definitely. It makes so much sense when you say it! Unfortunatly, there's never a market force in play when governments are involved. There are issues like fairness. Or access. Ton's of words that mean "we're taking but you gotta go along with it because if you don't you're an anti-liberal capitalist and we'll then take it from you because you're and anti-liberal capitalist!" Taking has never been a problem for a Democrat because they've never met an honest day's work they didn't want a part of. Just a piece. Don't wanta stop you from working. Just a bite. And when you work for/with the mob, you get mob politics. The sooner we become comfortable with New Jersey politics, the lower the level of dissension will be. Don't think of it as coercion, think of it as a Handicap. OregonGuy · February 9, 2007 01:57 AM Post a comment
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