The Business & Media Institute is reporting that Sentor DeMint (R-SC) is planning on adding the Broadcaster Freedom Act to the D.C. Voting Rights bill next week. This amendment would prevent the FCC from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
Attached is audio of Bingaman (D-NM) stating his support of the fairness doctrine. Unfortunately, the Fairness Doctrine will only limit free speech instead of promoting it. Currently the media is open and all viewpoints have equal opportunity to be heard. Success and failure is based upon the ability of those viewpoints to hold an audience.
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Written by admin on February 20, 2009
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fairness doctrine?????? what about our constitutional rights???? i’m sure it would be very fair if they shut up linbaugh, hannity, and all the others who speak the truth, huh? my daddy always said, “if ya don’t like what ya hear, turn it off” no one is forcing people to listen to the truth and if they don’t like it, they should turn the dial. freedom of speach is one of the things that make us free!
Amen to that. Everyone has equal opportunity to voice without the “fairness” doctrine. Censoring or limiting speech of one side does not promote the speech of the other side.
what really blows me away in all of this mess is the fact that so many have no desire to check out the facts. they continue to listen the liberal media, and believe everything they hear rather than searching for truth. they label those speaking truth as alarmists and such, without ever checking out what is being said in order to validate the content.
What’s really frightening is that the fairness doctrine in particular is a simple concept to think through. If I don’t like a program, I turn the channel. Nobody is forcing me to listen to it. If enough people don’t listen the ad revenues will drop and the station will pull the program off the air. If people find value they will listen to the program, the station will get ad revenues, and the program will stay on the air. Supply and demand, free market in action.
Enter the government, it mandates a station play an unpopular program in order to be “fair”. The station receives less revenue and eventually abandons any format that would invoke a government mandated program be played in opposition. Now there is one less station to get ANY viewpoint from.
i agree, and what will no doubt happen is that they will re package and re name it, and stick it in a much larger proposal just like they did with this stimucrap bill and then not give people the time to see what all is in there. Then it will be too late cuz it will have already passed. why is it that i’m having a harder time trusting my government nowadays? hmmmmmmmm, let me see….could be all the lies that mr. O has told thus far. can he really mean anything he says?