Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Fairness Doctrine
Not content with NPR, the New York Times, MSNBC, most of Hollywood, ABC, CBS, NBC, the LA Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer.... to get their message out liberal politicians would now like to institute the fairness doctrine upon talk radio, which would require equal time for opposing points of view.
While this sounds fair, the net effect will be to kill the format because radio stations don't want to put on liberal shows which get little ratings.
So it is pretty obvious that liberals want to use the force of government to silence opposing points of view. I would really like to think better of them, but I can't really see how.
Not content with NPR, the New York Times, MSNBC, most of Hollywood, ABC, CBS, NBC, the LA Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer.... to get their message out liberal politicians would now like to institute the fairness doctrine upon talk radio, which would require equal time for opposing points of view.
While this sounds fair, the net effect will be to kill the format because radio stations don't want to put on liberal shows which get little ratings.
So it is pretty obvious that liberals want to use the force of government to silence opposing points of view. I would really like to think better of them, but I can't really see how.
Labels: fairness doctrine, liberalism
