Fairness Doctrine Poll

[swardboy]

After listening to Chuck-you Schumer spewing on FoxNews that the Fairness Doctrine is coming, I just wanted to see where you all fall on this subject.

Schumer is reasoning that just as pornography is regulated on the commercial airwaves, government has the right to regulate one-sided political presentations.

Sure wanted to make this a pole, but for some reason the option box doesn't show up on my screen.

[OklahomaTuba]

Donks want to limit free speech??

NO WAY!!!!

What's next, taking away our guns and our freedom to worship???

Oh, wait...

[mdklatt]

Shouldn't the pubz be all for it since the "MSM" is so liberal and one-sided and all? :confused:

[OklahomaTuba]

No. the MSM is going out of business in part because of its bias.

Amazing how the free market works. No wonder liberals hate it so much.

[Widescreen]

If this does get reinstituted, I'm pretty sure that we're going to see major changes in talk radio and fox news since everyone else is already balanced. :rolleyes:

[tommieharris91]

No. the MSM is going out of business in part because of its bias.


Yea... GE and Viacom might have had bad quarters, but they're pretty healthy companies. I also think Disney will be around for awhile longer, too.

[1890MilesToNorman]

When "Fairness" is in the title of any law or regulation you will most likely not find any fairness in it!

[SoonerStormchaser]

Schumer is a ******rocket...

There's my equal time!

[Widescreen]

Schumer is a ******rocket...

There's my equal time!

That post will require an equal and opposite disk space/bandwidth response.

[Scott D]

this mean Rush will get a show on television again?

[jeremy885]

So when do half of the shows on NPR get replaced? News and Notes should be the first one to go.

[GrapevineSooner]

NO, NO, NO, NO, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NO NEVER!!!!

[King Crimson]

After listening to Chuck-you Schumer spewing on FoxNews that the Fairness Doctrine is coming, I just wanted to see where you all fall on this subject.

Schumer is reasoning that just as pornography is regulated on the commercial airwaves, government has the right to regulate one-sided political presentations.
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if this is the basis of his argument, he's wrong. the legal basis for the FD is in the scarce availability of electromagnetic spectrum and the so-called "trustee standard" of the FCC licensing process...all of which dates to the 1934 Communications Act.

i've posted this a dozen times in the last 2-3 years. with the availability and abundance of "media" beyond the former limits of spectrum scarcity (today's available communication technologies)...the old justification is thin and economics always wins with the FCC.

Tuba, traditional broadcast media are most certainly not going bankrupt due to "bias" and consumer choice. hilarious. convergence and cross-platform "news" or media delivery technologies are far more to "blame". I know it's easier to believe in the all-purpose scapegoat vs. the enlightened but persecuted "free-thinkers"....but, please.

if the MSM are going out of business, how can they be so powerful to brainwash the american public into electing a socialist?

[Sooner_Havok]

So when do half of the shows on NPR get replaced? News and Notes should be the first one to go.

I hope they get rid of science Friday. Damn liberal elite scientists.

[swardboy]

if this is the basis of his argument, he's wrong. the legal basis for the FD is in the scarce availability of electromagnetic spectrum and the so-called "trustee standard" of the FCC licensing process...all of which dates to the 1934 Communications Act.

i've posted this a dozen times in the last 2-3 years. with the availability and abundance of "media" beyond the former limits of spectrum scarcity (today's available communication technologies)...the old justification is thin and economics always wins with the FCC.

Thank you for the edumacation! I didn't know that. And I really never had you on ignore....

[swardboy]

Shouldn't the pubz be all for it since the "MSM" is so liberal and one-sided and all? :confused:

I'll bite....I would think FoxNews would be the only one standing with a fair installation of the Fairness Doctrine. I don't see anyone else consistently have both sides represented on any given topic. It raises the decibels, but they always have two representatives. "Hannity & Colmes" by its very nature should meet the test.

[jeremy885]

I hope they get rid of science Friday. Damn liberal elite scientists.
:( I like science Friday

[OklahomaTuba]

Looks like some libz think this applies to campaign signs as well..

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20081104McCainHitler01.jpg

[OklahomaTuba]

Tuba, traditional broadcast media are most certainly not going bankrupt due to "bias" and consumer choice. hilarious. convergence and cross-platform "news" or media delivery technologies are far more to "blame". I know it's easier to believe in the all-purpose scapegoat vs. the enlightened but persecuted "free-thinkers"....but, please.

if the MSM are going out of business, how can they be so powerful to brainwash the american public into electing a socialist?

Didn't imply it was the only reason, but it is without a doubt a reason.

But don't tell Dan Rather. He is still working on those fake but accurate documents of his on Bush. :D

[85Sooner]

The MSM did not have to abide by the fairness doctrine. Only opinion shows.

[frankensooner]

I just wanted to point out that this "Poll" does not have the official frankenpole approval label. There is absolutely no place to vote.

[mdklatt]

For the record, the Fairness Doctrine is stupid. Not all viewpoints deserve equal time, and in the internet age there's no shortage of opportunities for people to get their message out no matter how bat**** crazy and breathtakingly idiotic it is.

[OklahomaTuba]

I hope the dims are stupid enough to try to legislate such restrictions on commerce and free speech along with their tax increases and military cuts.

It will indeed make 2010 a good year for the GOP.

[Harry Beanbag]

The Fairness Doctrine is government mandated censorship.

[Okla-homey]

If this does get reinstituted, I'm pretty sure that we're going to see major changes in talk radio and fox news since everyone else is already balanced. :rolleyes:


nope, the networks have an exemption. The policy only applies to broadcast radio. srsly.

[Widescreen]

So it truly is a mechanism to get liberal radio on the air even though the market has largely rejected it. If that's the case, it won't matter because when some jackass comes on I don't want to hear, I'll change the channel for that 2-3 hour block. The people that are going to hate this are the radio station owners because their ratings are going to drop in a hurry.

[SicEmBaylor]

The answer to the Fairness Doctrine isn't stopping the fairness doctrine -- it's totally deregulating the airwaves and eliminating the FCC. Republicans would never ever accept it because the blue-haired evangelical crowd would go into convulsions if they saw a tit on TV.

[Harry Beanbag]

I like boobies.

[NYC Poke]

I'd like to see one on the radio. It's only fair.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

So it truly is a mechanism to get liberal radio on the air even though the market has largely rejected it. If that's the case, it won't matter because when some jackass comes on I don't want to hear, I'll change the channel for that 2-3 hour block. The people that are going to hate this are the radio station owners because their ratings are going to drop in a hurry.It will cause the radio stations to drop the talk format. That is the purpose of the Fairness Doctrine.

[SoonerTerry]

It also must be balanced... I wanna see 2

[SicEmBaylor]

I'd like to see one on the radio. It's only fair.

"Has anyone ever told you that you've got the tits for radio?"

[TMcGee86]

I'm very pro-tit.

[swardboy]

Gah, it's demeaning to watch one's thread devolve.....

[Ike]

So it truly is a mechanism to get liberal radio on the air even though the market has largely rejected it. If that's the case, it won't matter because when some jackass comes on I don't want to hear, I'll change the channel for that 2-3 hour block. The people that are going to hate this are the radio station owners because their ratings are going to drop in a hurry.

See, I think you are overlooking the true intent of the fairness doctrine. The intent isn't to be a mechanism to get one party or another representation in some media format. The intent is to make news media so noninformative that the American public won't pay attention anymore.

[Sooner_Havok]

See, I think you are overlooking the true intent of the fairness doctrine. The intent isn't to be a mechanism to get one party or another representation in some media format. The intent is to make news media so noninformative that the American public won't pay attention anymore.

Whatever science boy

:D