This morning, appearing on Fox News Sunday, Senator Diane Feinstein kind of caught me off guard.
While they were discussing the power of (particularly right-wing) talk radio, the former Mayor of San Francisco dropped a bombshell...she's considering a move to start enforcing the so-called Fairness Doctrine again.
Going back to these days would necessarily involve more government meddling in what exactly is "fair time" given to issues and viewpoints discussed on the public airwaves.
It's no coincidence that Drudge was linking up a story earlier this week where Oklahoma GOP Senator James Inhofe claimed he heard Senators Clinton (D-Punjab) and Boxer (D-CA) discussing "legislative solutions" to their talk radio problem.
I'm very interested, if this story picks up steam, where the MSM comes out on it. Will the Times and others parrot the company line that talk radio does swing right and tend to benefit Republicans in a disproportionate way? Will they maintain that the Internet and newspapers, who don't use the "public airwaves" should remain exempt from government meddling, just as they are when it comes to campaign finance reform?
Stay tuned...
While they were discussing the power of (particularly right-wing) talk radio, the former Mayor of San Francisco dropped a bombshell...she's considering a move to start enforcing the so-called Fairness Doctrine again.
Going back to these days would necessarily involve more government meddling in what exactly is "fair time" given to issues and viewpoints discussed on the public airwaves.
It's no coincidence that Drudge was linking up a story earlier this week where Oklahoma GOP Senator James Inhofe claimed he heard Senators Clinton (D-Punjab) and Boxer (D-CA) discussing "legislative solutions" to their talk radio problem.
I'm very interested, if this story picks up steam, where the MSM comes out on it. Will the Times and others parrot the company line that talk radio does swing right and tend to benefit Republicans in a disproportionate way? Will they maintain that the Internet and newspapers, who don't use the "public airwaves" should remain exempt from government meddling, just as they are when it comes to campaign finance reform?
Stay tuned...
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