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The Democrats keep bringing back these zombie ideas...Once again the Fairness Doctrine raises it's ugly
head
Senator Jeff Bingaman wants to bring back the Fairness Doctorine.
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The mild-mannered, soft-spoken Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., continues to be in the middle of a conservative firestorm over his remarks to 770 KKOB Radio host Jim Villanucci on Wednesday in which he called for a return to the so-called Fairness Doctrine. The doctrine, which required broadcasters to balance opposing viewpoints on the air waves, was dumped toward the end of the Reagan years and led the way to unabashedly partisan radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and ... Jim Villanucci. Limbaugh had fun with the Bingaman comments on his own three-hour radio show Wednesday. And CNSNews.com (founded in 1998 by the right-leaning Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell III), actually printed a transcript of the exchange between Bingaman and Villanucci. In an interview Wednesday, Villanucci told CNSNews.com that Bingaman was adamant about the need to balance conservative voices with liberals on the airwaves – and that his listeners called for four hours to oppose such a move. One thing that politicos don't like admitting is that there was less political debate when the Fairness Doctrine was in place, except for local topics. Think about it. Do you actually want Congress deciding what is "balanced?" What happened to changing the station? I don't like the radio. A little country goes a long way, and frankly a song isn't good if you have to see the video with naked women to remember the words. That's why I use an iPod. Considering how the unofficial quotas the the EEOC keeps pushing, I can just imagine how this will unfold. Let people decide for themselves. Free speech is free speech. It's not "balanced" or "fair" or even accurate. The Republicans aren't innocent on this either, McCain-Feingold is just the best known example. 
Posted: Fri - October 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM
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