A_Wanderer
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They can't use a populist medium so they want to beat it down
As much as we all hate talkback radio, and as much as we all have to loath right wing commentators, and tell each other how stupid people only believe what they hear on the radio, what is the FYM consensus on having the state regulate political discourse on the airwaves? Would it be alright to extend this to the internet, given that is where a lot of people get biased opinions these days.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Dems target right-wing talk radio ? - Blogs from CNN.comWASHINGTON (CNN) — More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York is the latest to say he wants to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine," a federal regulation scrapped in 1987 that would require broadcasters to present opposing views on public issues.
"I think the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated," Hinchey told CNNRadio. Hinchey says he could make it part of a bill he plans to introduce later this year overhauling radio and t-v ownership laws.
Democratic Senators Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Tom Harkin of Iowa added their voices recently to those calling for a return of the regulation.
Republicans oppose the Fairness Doctrine, arguing it would be wrong for the federal government to monitor political speech on the airwaves, in order to require opposing views.
Republican Congressman Greg Walden, a former owner of five radio stations in Oregon including a "classic rock" station joked that the Fairness Doctrine is "the musical equivalent" of "every time we'd play a classic rock song we'd have to play a polka!"
As much as we all hate talkback radio, and as much as we all have to loath right wing commentators, and tell each other how stupid people only believe what they hear on the radio, what is the FYM consensus on having the state regulate political discourse on the airwaves? Would it be alright to extend this to the internet, given that is where a lot of people get biased opinions these days.