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Source: freethinkerspub.yuku.com --- 9 days ago
Why is the Fairness Doctrine so dangerous? Well it is dangerous because if the Fairness Doctrine makes it into law, it will mandate that religion and religious broadcasting grant equal time to opposing views. Now you maybe wondering why this is so wrong? Well the main reason is because our government isn't allowed to pass laws telling a religion or a religious broadcaster what he or she can and can't do. It violates the 1st amendment. ... Source: media.nationalreview.com --- 37 days ago
... I assume we#39;ll see Sarah Palin on Oprah any day now. . . . . . ... Source: writ.findlaw.com --- 24 days ago
At first glance, Sarah Palin's story seems perfect for Oprah Winfrey: It features a plucky heroine, a troubled pregnancy, issues of work/life balance, and a special-needs child who has been welcomed into a large, loving family. But it's not a story that Oprah wants to tell right now - because Palin happens to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee, and because Oprah's choice for President is the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, whom she publicly and passionately supports. ... ... Source: pajamasmedia.com --- 16 days ago
Will Obama flip flop on equal time requirements in broadcasting? ... Source: www.topix.com --- 18 days ago
Op-ed in The Washington Post warns that a Democratic-controlled Congress would 'reinstate the misnamed Fairness Doctrine.' By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/18/2008 12:12:00 PM The return of the ... ... Source: badidea.wordpress.com --- 40 days ago
There’s just not a whole lot to say about it. 41% of Americans believe that the government should “require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary.” Many even want to extend the Doctrine, which would essentially enforce points of view on the listening market rather than letting [...] ... Source: www.debatepolicy.com --- 28 days ago
. During the presidential primaries, Obama is reported as supporting the “Fairness Doctrine”, see *_Obama and free speech_*... ... Source: www.pennjersey.info --- 11 days ago
It was originally put in place because the limited number of radio and tv stations are publicly owned. Reagan got rid of it in the 1980s, and that's when talk radio really took off. Now Democrats (especially Kerry) want to bring it back. Some people say it will effectively shut down conservative talk, and point to the failure of Air America and other left-wing talk shows. They say that if radio stations are forced to match opposing voices minute-for-minute, and if one side is less profitable, they will drop the entire talk format. In a recent Rasmussen poll, 90% of Americans want it back. Michael Medved made a good point today: Why would we want the government to tell us what we should listen to? And, with hundreds of satellite radio and cable tv stations, is there a need to force 100% balance of opinion on us? What do you think? I wrote "get right" of right-wing talk shows and meant "get rid of" but can't edit the poll :-( ... Source: www.debatepolitics.com --- 33 days ago
Here is what I understand the FD to be: It is required that both sides of an issue be covered fairly and equally. The Personal Attack Rule (abolished in 2000): It used to be that if you were going to personally attack someone on air, you had to notify the person, give them a transcript of what... ... Source: awolcivilization.com --- 10 days ago
It is a well-known fact of the contemporary American political and cultural scene that the Left dominates the press, or as the popular misnomer would have it, the “mainstream media” (MSM). I say misnomer because there is nothing mainstream about it, other than the fact that ABC, CNN, and the New York Times are ingrained [...] ... Source: www.johnsblog.jfmooreart.com --- 31 days ago
Democrats have been pushing the Fairness Doctrine, which is a not-so-veiled effort to kill talk radio. Enter Oprah, the daytime TV talk-show diva. Her Web site is filled with e-love for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. She herself welcomed the Illinois senator and his wife Michelle to the comfy stage sofa. But now Oprah has issued a written statement that she will not allow Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin anywhere near her Chicago soundstage. She says she has “made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates.”........ ...
Source: corner.nationalreview.com --- 21 hours ago
Anyone wondering what my battle to restore the right to free speech in Canada has to do with America should read Michael Barone on "The Coming Obama Thugocracy". WGN's Milt Rosenberg, NR's Stanley Kurtz and others have already been on the receiving end of the thugocracy. On the air with Milt the other night, I quoted Bob Hope and Bing Crosby: He gets his shirts straight from Paris Cigarettes from the Nile He talks like a highbrow But he plays Chicago style... That's Obama: highbrow enough for Christopher Buckley, Euro-bespoke (not sure where he gets his smokes these days - he's a bit coy on that), but an old-fashioned Chicago bruiser who'll order in anyone from Missouri sheriffs to the federal Justice Department if you run a TV ad he finds unhelpful. An Obama-Pelosi Washington with 60 Senate seats would reintroduce the (Un)Fairness Doctrine, regulate the Internet, and wouldn't be above oomphing up Canadian-style "human rights" commissions to police speech - especially if he gets to appoint three Supreme Court justices in short order. I was especially struck by this passage from Michael: Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to p ... Source: instapundit.com --- 10 days ago
OBAMA BUYS OWN SATELLITE CHANNEL: Good thing he hasn't reinstated the Fairness Doctrine yet! But how can he afford it? ... Source: liberalfascism.nationalreview.com --- 9 days ago
I can't tell you how many emails I get like this these days: With enough vodka, I can almost stomach 4 years of BO. After all, that defeatist '4 years of Carter gave us a Reagan' claptrap happens to be true. What really scares me though (and I mean just that) Is that the mass media have now dropped all pretence at Fairness this go around. It's gloves off Goebbels 24/7. And now (emboldened by the results of their unfettered bias) I don't see them receding back into the shadow of that fifth column, anytime soon As Jefferson said 'The only security of all is a free press' ...Yes there's Fox and talk radio...but good luck with that when (in the ether of the new Obamalot) the Fairness Doctrine is re-imposed. The unsettling realization is that we seem to have arrived in an Orwellian reality. As clever as you are, I doubt even you knew just how prescient your latest tome was. 'Dude, where's my country?' -Andy ... Source: clipmarks.com --- 9 days ago
clipped by: jatfla clipper's remarks: I know I would be severely annoyed if I traveled to hear someone speak only to have them drowned out by protesters, but it should work both ways. Freedom of speech, but conducted in an orderly fashion. However, the "Fairness Doctrine" really bugs me. Clip Source: www.thebulletin.us "I want you to talk with them whether they are Independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face ... You are my ambassadors." Barack Obama to supporters, Elko, Nevada, Sept. 2008 We were greeted with curses and jeers from Congressman Joe Sestak's, D-7th, supporters, allies of Mr. Obama to be sure. During speeches by Sarah Palin and John McCain, Obama forces "drowned out" the candidates' words by repeatedly shouting, "O-BAM-A, O-BAM-A." I heard not a word from either Republican nominee. his supporters got in our faces. Just as they had gotten in the faces of Fox News reporter, Griff Jenkins, and his cameramen, at a Democratic Party rally in Denver on August 25. The Obama crowd literally tossed the Fox News Team off the premises. Democrats in Congress would like to "drown out" conservatives in the media by instituting the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." If Barack Obama becomes President Obama, they will surely have their way. ...
Source: www.baristanet.com --- 10 hours ago
No, that's not too many adjectives in a headline. Actually, after sitting rapt for the Luna Stage 's shiny new production of Thomas Digg's Fair and Decent, I could easily run off a whole bunch more: timely, for example. Disturbing. Hilarious. Confrontational. Machiavellian. Around a million years ago, there was a thing called the Fairness Doctrine. It simply meant that if a broadcast network was airing editorial material, it would give time to the other side of the issue as well. Do you know what you were doing when the Fairness Doctrine went away? I don't either. This play, part history and part imagination, shows us. ... Source: overlawyered.com --- 36 days ago
A revived Fairness Doctrine might just do it (Brian Anderson & Adam Thierer, New Criterion, Sept.)(h/t Erin C. on Facebook). Tags: broadcasters, Facebook, free speech Related posts Update: Speechless in Seattle (1) The Fairness Doctrine (7) The “Fairness Doctrine” (0) Thank you, Dan Rather (0) Talk show subpoenaed in Boston mosque suit (0) ... Source: www.prospect.org --- 9 days ago
Kevin Drum , responding to my statement that, "In my view, if there's a constitutional right to privacy, you can't take away someone's right to have an abortion, anymore than you can take away someone's right to bear arms:" In Fairness, I really don't think this is true. The Fourth Amendment protects you against the police busting into your home without a warrant, but that doesn't mean it's OK to murder your kids as long as you do it in your living room. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, states could almost certainly declare that human life begins at conception and then outlaw abortion as murder regardless of any constitutional or statutory Doctrine on privacy. The reason I said "in my view" is because I think conservatives have a perfectly reasonable argument here that abortion is a "unique" circumstance in which the right to privacy doesn't apply. Clarence Thomas has been making that argument . But my point is that acknowledging a right to privacy completely contradicts originalism as it has been put forth by Antonin Scalia (as well as "originalist" Thomas), namely that there is no right to privacy in the Constitution. Conservatives can't claim that the right to privacy exists and at the same time claim to be originalists. That's why I say Ramesh Ponnuru was moving the goalposts, because there is simply no way to argue that the right to privacy is "originalist," even though you can agree in theory with a right to privacy and stil ... Find more results for Fairness Doctrine on RSSMicro.com |
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Filed under: Featured Stories , Republican Convention , Floor Fight And we have one thousands strong right in Minneapolis, MN at the Target Center today. Texas Congressman Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic got off to a late, but enthusiastic start with emcee Tucker Carlson welcoming the raucous crowd. Carlson, Senior Campaign Correspondent with MSNBC, told Political Machine shortly before taking the stage that while he can't endorse a candidate, he loves Dr. Paul's message and holds Libertarian values close to his heart after growing up in a Libertarian home. The Invocation was given by Minnesota Congressional candidate Barb Davis White who rallied the assembled with her promise to "take back the 5th district from liberalism, fascism and socialism" and "send the Fairness Doctrine back to the pits of hell where it was born". "I am a constitutionalist" and "I am Ron Paul" where themes that warmed this very dedicated group as well as references to abolishing the North American Union, the Nafta Super Highway and getting out of the United Nations. Speaking to the Nevada delegation's Jennifer Terhune opened my eyes up to the resentment that exists among the Paulites feel toward the main party over in St. Paul at the Xcel Center. This is truly a shadow convention. The Nevada Republican delegation abruptly gavelled to a close back on April 26th after balloting showed Paul supporters winning at least half of the initial contests for delega ...
Last night -- after watching the debates, coincidentally -- we received an email from No Age guitarist Randy Randall, who wanted talk about something that happened to him when he showed up to tape a performance for Craig Late Late Night With Craig Ferguson while wearing an Obama shirt. Randy explains: After the rehearsals, the people from CBS said I couldn't wear the shirt. I threatened to walk off the set and not do the show. They would not budge. They said that it was because they had to give equal time. I told them to put up a Mccain t-shirt, or anything else they wanted, but they wouldn't do anything. Dean and I talked and we came to the conclusion that it was better to do the show and make a statement on national TV than just walk away. So I turned the shirt inside out and wrote free healthcare on it. CBS told No Age that allowing Randy to wear the shirt violated the Fairness Doctrine. It's strange, then that Regina Spektor was able to display her Obama Belt during her performance with Ben Folds on Conan. Strange, too, that the Fairness Doctrine was repealed years ago. We have more on that, as well as some photos Randy sent us from when he was still sporting his tee. ...