1st. Amd. and the Fairness Doctrine

[gypsyman]

Just hoping someone on this site, can help smarten me up! Heard in the last couple days, Hillary and Nancy were complaining about conservative talk show programs.(Limbaugh,Hannity and Beck,etc) And they were heard to have said, something needs to be done about this. And then I caught something about the ''fairness doctrine''. Could somebody please enlighten me on this. Sounds like some politicians want to try and control the media and what is being said. Next thing will be site's like this being scrutinized! Somebody smarten me up! Thanks-gypsyman

[Brett]

You are 100% correct Gypsyman.  The Liberals are trying their best to stifle any communications from conservative organizations.  Check out the NRA web site ( www.NRA.Org ) for information on the various gag bills the Liberals are trying to get passed. 

[ironglow]

  You heard right Gypsyman..and old Hitlary & Co aren't the only ones...
  Many Dems have been "testing the waters" concerning limiting or eliminating the first article of the Bill of Rights.

   We know that if we get a Demo president AND a demo controlled congress in "08..we can look forward to an attack upon out freedom of speech.

  They conveniently forget that the Libs tried talk radio...and failed miserably..simply because we are flooded with Liberal propaganda from MANY sources...
  Then too..talk radio listeners are probably a more intelligent crowd than the Teddy & Rosie types..and with intelligence, comes the desire to shun leftist tripe...LOL

   If they were truly concerned with "fairness"..they could start with the "big three" TV networks, Hollyweird movie industry, the "artsy" types and PBS..

  After all, it is usually our tax money thayt pays for much of the psuedo-intellectual "artists" disgusting "work" to be displayed in public museums and always our tax money that pays for the PBS leftist propaganda.

[Questor]

Relating to the original post, speaker of the house Pelosi is publicly using the language that talk radio is a problem and that the so-called fairness doctrine is designed to silence talk radio as we know it. If that is not an encroachment on free speech, then what is?

[powderman]

Must be Bush's fault. OOOOOOOPPPPPPS, we were talking about the dumcraps. POWDERMAN. 

[magooch]

If the lefties on the air were getting the high ratings, there would be no talk about fairness.  Fairness to a liberal is when they control the media and everything else.

[ironglow]

  I can't really fault TM7 very much on his last post ! it behooves us all to be warning everyone we know about this impending sellout of our soverignty. Perhaps we can at least delay, if not upset it entirely..

[magooch]

Oooookay, how did we get from the "Fairness Doctrine" to the "International republican party" and the amnesty bill? 

[muskeg13]

Don't forget Trent Lott's stupid quote about talk radio running the country and his threat that "we need to do something about this."  The last time I looked, Lott still calls himself a republican, even if he sides with Dianne Feinstein and Teddy Kennedy.  Lott, and the whole lot of RINOs, needs to be put out to pasture.  Let them find real work.

[gypsyman]

I heard the same thing TM7. When the border issue came up and some of the Rep. got hammered on that issue, talk radio was not on their side. Can't remember which one's, but a few of Rep. came out for the ''Fairness Doctrine''. Problem is, some issue's are not about what party is more correct on an issue, but what is right for the country. Problem with a lot of politicians, when the heat gets turned up, they want to get out of the kitchen. I'll bet, if there was a study, there are so many ''liberal'' media outlets, 3-4 major news channels, just about every newspaper in big city's, fairness hell, 80-90% is on their side now! They even tried something called Air America. Failed miserably. They just want to keep pushing an agenda. -gypsyman

[SHOOTALL]

Gee fair ! whats fair ? being born in the 50's things haven't been fair since I"ve been here , lets see busing in school well that was fair , all the people are smarter now , right ? why do they call it the dumbing down of America ?
Affirmative action , nothing fair about that bribe ! taxes , want to be fair why not everyone pay a % and be done with it ?
loss of individual right , to many to list , etc. etc.
If the left were smart they would figure out that the reason no one listens is THEY AIN"T SAYING ANYTHING WORTH LISTENING TO !

[PA-Joe]

I still don't know what the fairness doctine is? I think this is were the media must give equal time to all sides of the campaign. Except for third parties!!!

[SHOOTALL]

thats what they say , but in reality they get 50% of the air time , limiting the intelligent host to half of the time they should have , what sponsor will pay for a show no one listens to ?
lets face it the elite leaders of our political system see us as parents see children , and they don't like back talk or being ?? by us stupid kids .
Its just another way to take our freedom !

[magooch]

The so-called Fairness Doctrine required broadcasters to present both political sides of issues.  The net result was that it discouraged political talk altogether.  Ronald Reagan's administration was instrumental in allowing the free market to decide what obtained on the radio and thus, radio talk shows flourished and became what they are today.

The problem is that the liberal point of view is not very successful in drawing an audience, so advertisers are reluctant to spend their money on programs that have low ratings.  I would imagine that if the liberals were capable of presenting their side of things in a rational, truthful, entertaining and unhateful manor, they might draw a viable audience, but that just isn't in their nature.  After all, how do you push for socialism (virtual communism) in any kind of sensible way without lying and distorting what it really is.

By the way, Trent Lott and no other Republican has advocated returning to the fairness doctrine.  They might not like the influence that talk radio sometimes has in regard to some issues, but it is a far stretch between this irritation and wanting the government to dictate what has to be presented on air.

The Dumbycrats will deny that they want to control what is broadcast, but they turn around and talk about whether broadcast licenses should be renewed to certain owners and in fact, who should be allowed to own stations.  They might have a point if there was in fact a monopoly on broadcast stations, but in fact there is no such case.  People who watch and listen to the broadcast media should be what decides what is successful and what isn't.

Rush Limbaugh isn't as successful as he is because he has changed peoples opinion; it's because he is very entertaining and he reflects the beliefs of his audience.  It's just that simple.

[ironglow]

  The fact is..the demoncrats are using "newspeak" words again...

    They are saying "fairness" when they mean censorship by government decree..

    The greatest fairness in a free society, is when everyone has an equal opportunity...

  The liberals can go ahead and jump into the pool of broadcasting..the water though warm at times, if fine right now..
 
  The problem is that the liberal/democrat/socialist/Marxists TRIED to compete on even terms..but nobody was listening to them, nobody wants to...

  Remember "Airhead America"..liberal talk network..funded greatly by billionaire Geo Soros and the like ?  ...And they are welcome to try again if they wish ..it's a free country!

  The trouble with Liberalism on a radio talk show is that the host must honestly debate callers who disagree, and they must debate with facts..not emotions..

  As soon as the host starts "losing it" emotionally..lapses into name calling etc...it is then that folks start flipping the dial !

  They can hear enough name-calling from juvenile delinquents on the street..they don't need the radio for that.

 

   BTW: It seems that in the last few years, when I try to debate a liberal about an issue..all I get in return are slogans and canned "sound bites"..
...And if you talk to 5 different liberals..you get the same slogans and "sound bites" over and over and over..NO ORIGINAL THOUGHTS !

   Simple question, all four of the following are considered abrasive by the opposition..but who is smarter, better looking, makes more sense...and doesn't parrot old, tired lies over and over ?

   1) Rosie O'Donnell

   2) Micheal Moore

   3) Ann Coulter

  4) Michelle Malkin

    ...See;... now you have proven to yourself why conservatives are more welcome into our cars, shops and living rooms !