National Public Unfairness
by L. Brent Bozell
There's a huge hole in all of the public discussion about the reimposition of a "Fairness Doctrine" or a return to "localism" on the talk-radio format: What about National Public Radio (NPR)? Liberals would like to "crush Rush" and his conservative compatriots by demanding each station balance its lineup ideologically. But since when has NPR ever felt any pressure to be balanced, even when a majority of taxpayers being forced to subsidize it are center-right? ...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:03 PM
Sir;.... I wish I could say in every public and polical dispute, what you are saying for you, rather than you saying for yourself .... That is what I see in Rush, and other right wing ding a lings... They want to beat up the democrats by mis-characterization...They want to make straw dogs, and then kick them down the street...They do not really want the trouble of having a conversation... They do not want a conversation...They do not want dialogue, or reason....They want to say that the other side is beneath having a conversation with; that because they are democrats they are moral defects, lazy, stupid, theiving, taxing traitors... Why not say it to their faces??? Why not give them equal time to refute??? Isn't fair play essential to the American Way????I Might impugn your motives...I would not put it past me...But I will be happy to talk counter to your own words... Which I find easy enough to do because so many so called conservatives are suffering from various errors of predicate.... It is their assumptions going in that are most often flawed... The attempt to introduce opinion as fact, or ad hominem attacks on liberals for being liberal... At such times I am inclined to remember Lincoln's defense of liberalism... But he has served his purpose, and should shut up, and get on the penny... I do not blame you for wanting the airwaves to yourselves... You want to make of it a big echo chamber where all your nonsense reverberates endlessly... I don't buy it... The public airwaves must serve a public purpose, and if the liberals cannot shut up the reactionaries, then the reactionaries should not be able to shut up the liberals just because most of their audience thinks like them, and they own the station...It IS their station...The airwaves are our public property, and should serve the whole nation even when they reach only a few... Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: Dan Counts
Comment: #2
Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:41 PM
L. Brent Bozo III strikes once again with a barely literate rant. First of all, Congress has shelved The Fairness Doctrine. But what I want to know is how requiring counter-programming or requiring someone on the air with a different point of view censorship? Personally I would love to see a Crossfire like show with say Al Franken and Sean Hannity or Rachel Maddow vs Michelle Malkin or L. Brent Bozo v. Keith Olbermann on MSNBC or Phil Donahue v. Bill O'Reilly on Fox, or Rev. Jeremiah Wright v. Rush Limbaugh on during drivetime (granted, that is a lot of noise, but why not take a chance). Oh, that's right, the greatest majority of right-wing pundits would get their rears handed to them because facts don't matter, they run with the Nazi theory of tell a lie often enough and make it big enough soon it will become the truth.
Mr. Bozo, please, go crawl back into your little cave to watch TV and decry how everything is sex and drugs and liberals gone wild, because rational thought is not and will never be a strength to play to.
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