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Technology Liberation Front: Fairness Doctrine Debate: Less and More than Meets the Eye

  • Self Appointed Genius · 1 year ago
    Anyone else find it funny that everyone knows The Media is Liberal, even though The Radio is Conservative?

    And how is it that Fairness proponents always pick vague ideological points to use as examples? Has it ever occurred to them that strict enforcement of such a doctrine would require equal time for the pro and anti positions on topics that are traditionally noncontroversial, such as anorexia. Do we really want to turn on the radio and hear a Pro-ana viewpoint? Do we really want 12-year-old girls to hear that?
  • Jim Harper · 1 year ago
  • Stump · 1 year ago
    So to be a conservative one has to be against localism? These stations are licensed by the FCC to serve particular communities — which doesn’t happen when all they do is relay agitprop via satellite. Outside the big cities a lot of AM talk stations are just computers in a closet relaying out-of-town programming. Local news is gone and so is a lot of local conservative talk radio, along with a chance to speak out when your local politicians do something you don't like -- which I'll bet a lot of conservatives in small college towns would take in preference to another Rusty Humphries rerun or some other fifth-tier syndicated show.

    If there had been local “advisory boards” I’ll bet there never would have been an indecency ruckus, as they would have kept stations closer to the people and prevented corporate radio types from pumping Howard Stern into the red states.

    I wish I could tell you stories of all the local people who’ve been fired so that corporate radio can pump more money away to some faraway town. Including local CONSERVATIVE talk hosts. Don’t you realize that in this “Broadcaster Freedom Act” you’re just being played by the radio station owners who don’t want to operate with any responsibility to the communities they’re licensed to serve? The National Association of Broadcasters has launched a huge campaign to avoid any local service responsibilities or staff their stations --and they funnel huge amounts of cash to congressmen of all stripes.
  • Revival · 5 months ago
    Quote: “Localism will compel speech of which FCC Commissioners … approve. In a world of limited broadcast hours, compelling one sort of speech means sacrificing speech of another, effectively censoring speech.”

    -Pretty scary stuff!