Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
The same thing can be said about the liberals and the Fairness Doctrine. Which has been attempted to be revived by democrats for some time now to FORCE their influence across radio stations. They have been trying to push this for some time now.

This doctrine would force Radio communication companies to give equal air time to liberal talk radio shows as they do to conservative talk radio shows.

With that said.. why should these radio stations be FORCED to air something they don't find worthy. In a world news media that is very liberal why is it that conservatism is allowed to be turned down as "un news worthy" but yet the few areas where conservative news source exists they are trying to force them to air Liberal programs.

For information regarding this do a google search for "democrats fairness doctrine".

So tell me.. what do you believe in, do you believe in free speech or do you believe in equal representation in the media. Because the way the Democrats are going it seems that they are wanting to take BOTH away from us.
I personally believe in free speech. That's why I think it's perfectly fine for the Times or any paper to control what goes into its op-ed page.

I don't know about any new changes to how the fairness doctrine is being applied to conservative radio stations. The one difference between broadcast radio stations and broadcast TV stations versus newspapers, cable TV and internet is that the broadcast media use the publicly-owned broadcast spectrum. Because they are licensing public "property" they are supposed to operate in the "public interest" in order to maintain their license. So different standards of fariness have always applied to broadcast media as opposed to cable, internet or printed media.
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