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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:46 am Post subject: BILL CLINTON CALLS FOR "FAIR & BALANCED" TALK |
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Bill Clinton, the man on yet another mission, has decreed:
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February 12, 2009
Clinton wants 'more balance' on airwaves
from POLITICO: Even though no member of Congress has scheduled hearings on the Fairness Doctrine, it remains on a hot topic on both liberal and conservative shows. Today, radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for "some type of enforced media accountability." "Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side," Clinton said, "because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous...." Clinton said that there needs to be either "more balance in the programs or have some opportunity for people to offer countervailing opinions." Clinton added that he didn't support repealing the Fairness Doctrine, an act done under Reagan's FCC. In the past week, a couple Democratic Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Tom Harkin, have both spoken favorably about the Fairness Doctrine, or holding hearings on radio accountability. |
Now, let's see: if I have this correct Billy Bob wants the government to regulate talk radio because liberals aren't getting enough air time.
Well, he's accurate on one score: there has been a marked decline in liberal talk radio over the past decade and a half.
Never mind, however, that NBC, MSNBC, ABC, and CBS TV news has always been in the tank for the liberals.
Never mind that 90% of all journalists self-report in survey after survey that they're liberals.
Never mind that the current administration is liberal, and liberal majorities occupy both houses of Congress.
Never mind that PBS, the national public radio station, tilts left of center and is trying to rid itself of Juan Williams, an Emmy Award winning Black commentator who has the temerity to appear on FoxNews.
Never mind that The Nation, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other weekly news magazines lean left.
Never mind that the NYTimes, LATimes and Wash Post are clearly liberal in their coverage;
Never mind that CNN leans left and CNN even further left, with the BBC even further than those two.
Never mind that most college campus newspaper--not to mention classrooms--lean hard left.
But because conservative talk radio and FoxNews are successful and have the widest audiences, there's a desperate need to invoke the Fairness Doctrine.
Clinton says that Rush has his rich backers. Uh, yeah, but then I didn't notice any shortage of cash flow during the presidential campaign to Obama. Maybe Bill can reach into his Saudi-lined pockets and fund a private station or two.
To loosely paraphrase another Bill, as in Shakespeare:
Fascism by any other name would stink as much.
Can any liberals and leftists on this board at least acknowledge the utter hypocrisy in this move?
Or are the blinders on so tight that only the shit dropping from the Democratic donkety cart directly in front can be seen? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Let's boil this post down to its essentials: The Clintons are pissing you off again, Steve.
BTW, if you think the WaPo is liberal in its coverage, you are not a ManintheMiddle at all. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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W. Clinton took a lot of it as president, I found most of what he took unreasonable, and, in spite of what his wife called "a vast right-wing conspiracy," he still strikes me as holding moderate views on this issue, especially as he demonstrated by example re: Sarah Palin during the campaign.
On the other hand, where was he during the unrelenting media onslaught against W. Bush? How does he feel about K. Olbermann and that smug female who follows him on MSNBC, for example?
At the end of the day, I still think any governmental interference in the media and its politics would be a mistake. Further, this smells of bad govt. If you move to suppress the right's voice, and that is exactly how R. Limbaugh and his followers will perceive this, you will only unite and enflame them. Same thing for the M. Moores and K. Olbermanns out there.
Why do that? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| The Fairness Doctrine was a good-faith effort to bring balance back when I was a kid. We only got one channel on TV. Lots of people were in a similar situation. With the explosion of cable and the internet it isn't really necessary any more, unless there are still places where media access is severely limited. |
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Jeff's Cigarettes
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Who is he, actually? |
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