RW hate is worried about Fairness...check out this email in my spam folder

[greenbriar]

The Battle for Talk Radio:
Powerful Foes Want to End the Gabfest

The 2008 election has been decided and one thing is clear: the enemies of talk radio are firmly in control of the White House and Congress. Sen. Chuck Schumer and his fellow Democrats are promising an all-out attack on talk radio.

With a new "Fairness Doctrine" backed by an Obama White House, political talk, as we know it, will end.

If these forces of darkness win, Rush, Imus, Hannity, Savage, Beck, and dozens of other major hosts will be muzzled by using federal regulations to control political talk.

So, what's their plan of attack?

As Newsmax magazine reveals in its just-released special report, "The Battle for Talk Radio," leading liberals in Congress, the Democratic presidential candidates, and even some Republicans speak openly of their plans to end conservative talk radio using federal regulations.

Their weapon: a revived Fairness Doctrine, which would once again require stations to air divergent points of view — a clever ruse that makes station owners leery of airing controversial talk-radio hosts fearing law suits and federal sanctions.

With a new Fairness Doctrine, you could see many top conservative radio hosts canned.

This Newsmax special report also features an exclusive interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly who tells Newsmax there is no question a plan is being hatched. "The far-left kooks will try, but they will fail," O'Reilly says.

[Touchdown]

1. Rwanda had a genocide because of hate radio like Savage etc.

That law sounds good to me.

[greenbriar]

2. ME TOO

I would LOVE for rush/hannity/oliely/beck et all to be GONE

[Critters2]

3. So let me see if I understand this...they're afraid of fairness? nt

[greenbriar]

5. yea imagine the horror

of fairness


Boortz was crying about this today as well

[Marr]

4. If only it were true.

I don't believe for a second that any Congress with Reid and Pelosi at it's head would ever reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. They should, though. These are the *public* airwaves-- these clowns are only renting them with the consent of the public.

[dhpgetsit]

6. They need to take some tranquilizers.

I don't think any of the major liberal talk show hosts are in favor of the "fairness doctrine".
Liberal talk shows do very well in markets where they go head-to-head against the likes of Rush, Imus, Hannity, Savage, Beck and "Oh, Really". I sure wouldn't want to have KPOJ wasting air time on the likes of Rush, Imus, Hannity, Savage, Beck, and "Oh, Really"!

[DBoon]

7. listening ot another opinion = censorship

Is their perspective so weak that allowing a different view will shatter it?

I grew up under the fairness doctrine.

Believe me, there were PLENTY of wingnut commentators back then (RIP George Putnam)

The difference was the radio or TV station had to allocate a small amount of time to an opposing viewpoint.

WHy are they so afraid of an opposing viewpoint?