Re: [IRCA] new bill may impact media

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

Well in all fairness, (pardon the pun), the fairness doctrine seemed to work 
before didn't it?

Bob Young



>From: "Gil Stacy" <gilstacy@xxxxxxxxx>
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>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] new bill may impact media
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:09:01 -0500
>
>"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."
>
>Without regard to who is right and who is wrong with the "free speech" 
>issue
>and the "fairness doctrine", there is a fundamental difference between
>newspapers and broadcast.  We, the people, own the airways. The government,
>on our behalf, regulates access to the airways. Those who broadcast do so
>not with a fundamental right, but only through license.
>We, the people, don't own the newspapers.  Old rule of thumb:  Never argue
>or make an enemy out of someone who buys ink by the barrels and paper by 
>the
>ton.  <g>
>73, Gil NN4CW
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