Re: [IRCA] new bill may impact media

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I do not disagree with you in the least.  I just chose to not ascribe 
motives, trying to keep my comments from seeming partisan.  I think 
the victim will be all political discourse on the radio, not just right wing.

 From a politician's perspective, what better than to shutter another 
source of public information.  Don't forget, with campaign finance 
reform, already stifled -- or at least intended to be -- is discourse 
around the time of elections.  Now radio, and then on to the 
next!  Soon politics will be a private game only for those of the proper class.

Anyone who messes with the content of radio could tomorrow just as 
easily mess with the content of newspapers, trying to make the 
coverage there match someone's notion of fairness.

And when the politicians declare that fairness is to not speak ill of 
politicians, where will we be then?

Curt


At 01:12 PM 1/22/2007, you wrote:
> > Broadcasters will quickly see the financial burden of carrying
> > unpopular, unprofitable programming to satisfy the banal concept of
> > fairness and will stop carrying any political opinion at all, rather
> > than be forced to carry programming that drives away the
> > listeners.  A nice, bland, non-controversial content which no one
> > will complain about.
> >
> > The result will be to suppress political discourse, not to enhance
> > it, as the "fairness doctrine" is touted to do.
> >
> > And one more nail in AM radio's coffin.
> >
> > Curt
>
>
>Agreed, but your comment makes it seem that the
>idea of "stop[ping] carrying political opinion..." is
>an unintended consequence of a financially-driven
>action.
>
>I submit that the plan IS to drive right wing radio
>off the air, and rather than being a consequence,
>is in fact, the real reason for this plan.
>
>- Bob
>


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