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Originally Posted by saltwn Bring back the fairness doctrine! Down with reality tv!

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Originally Posted by saltwn No. They've already ruined the free press so to speak with wiping their azzes on the fairness doctrine. They will not take the last actually decent form of news that seeps in places like southern Idaho and southern oregon for people who cannot afford cable. The filtering of the news some places is astounding. And without cable you dont get cspan. And an educational medium? We dont need one more goll darned bullet until we improve ALL television with educational programming not just the public stations. Public broadcasting is just that. Voice of the people and a way for some people to view that school board meeting or city counsel meeting when otherwise they could not. I'm tired of giving up everything that is good and decent about this country in favor of war and boot strap pulling. Lord knows I had enough if that under Reagan.

OK, you don't know the history of the grossly misnamed "Fairness Doctrine" do you?

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. . .Bill Ruder, who was the Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy administration and a campaign advisor to the Lyndon Johnson, admitted: Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue. Jumping on dissenting viewpoints was not the exclusive inclination of the Democrats. It is well documented that the Nixon administration used it to club what it viewed to be unfair coverage or criticism of the administration and the Vietnam War. The common denominator was that the initiative to stifle disagreeable voices originated with the government in power. http://www.skipmorganlaw.com/article...esdoctrine.pdf