Posted by
Michael J. Smith Jr. on Monday, June 30, 2008 7:48:48 PM
If Senator Barack Obama becomes President and the Democrat Party holds and increases their majority in Congress, there is talk of the so-called "Fairness Docotrine" coming back. The doctorine would basically end talk radio as we know it. The stations would stop doing the talk format just like they did in the early 80's. Because people do not listen to liberals that are not entertaining (See the failed Air America). In my mind the playing field is finally becoming fair the way things are now... The majority of all "media" are still liberal but we have made signifigant gains against the juggernaught. For the first time things finally are fair. As everyone knows liberals cannot beat conservatives in a fair fight, so now they have to change things so you cannot hold them accountable. Hey liberals, check out the First Amendment you care about so much...
If they ever try to bring it back, I will personally organize a march on Washington D.C. and to quote the movie Tombstone "You tell them, I'm coming, and hell is coming with me!!!" If they even try it, they will lose their majority in 2010. Talk Radio is the American voter. The Amercian people will not stand for that. "Go ahead, make my day" from Sudden Impact I had to get that off my chest.... Now on to the new argument...
Here is another interesting argument against the "Fairness Doctrine" I wonder what would happen if we tried to put a fairness doctrine on "music radio" What if we said all the rap, hip hop, and alternative rock stations which play music filled with sex, violence and liberalism had to play Gospel and Christian music half the day to balance out the sex, violence and liberalism. .. You know if we tried to do anything like that, the liberals would go nuts saying, "You are trying to impose our beliefs on others, you can't do that!!" "You cannot tell a radio station what their content should be, the First Amendment forbids it!!"
That's right pal, we cannot do that, and neither can you......
The free market should continue to decide who is on the radio and who is not. If something is popular and it makes money it's going to be on the radio, and if it is not popular and does not make money then it's not going to last very long on the radio... There is no law banning liberals form the radio, Liberals are free to start and market their own radio programs, such as Alan Colmes, who by the way, agrees with conservatives on this issue. There is nothing to stop a liberal from marketing himself, I just do not want the government to step in and say to a private radio station, you have to program your station to be fair to everyone, have an hour of rap, then rock, then conservative talk, then liberal talk, then a cooking show, then a cleaning show, then an Elvis show, and so on and so on. The more voices the better, but they should not be mandated by the government.
If you do not like what is being said, change the channel or shut the radio off, but don't shut it off for the rest of us. Let the rock stations play rock, let the rap stations play rap, and let the conservative talk stations talk conservative talk, and let the liberals compete in the free market like the rest of us have to.
Whenever I get a day off from work I listen to Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin and even when I cannot listen I feel comforted by the fact that they are on the air giving my point of view to those who can listen. God bless them all.