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Wailin and Flailin on Palin
Sarah Palin made the mistake of being a self-made woman who actually accomplished things in her own right instead of riding her husband’s coattails. She worked next to her husband founding and managing...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage (commentator), Ann Coulter, First Amendment, Liberals, Mainstream Media, Fairness Doctrine
Media Juggernaut Grows
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 days ago
Credibility
This means one company can own all the radio stations, television stations, newspapers and cable systems it can gobble up. Since the 1940s, the rules limited one company from owning TV stations that reach more than 35% of American households, prohibit...
Tags: FCC, tv stations, Iraq, Baghdad, Clear Channel Communications, Business Finance, Federal Communications Commission, Fairness Doctrine, Concentration of media ownership, Entertainment Culture
Opaque Transparency or Smoke and Mirrors
Remember the promise of transparency that helped win the Presidency? All bills passing Congress would be posted for 5 days before signed. Seems the rules have changed. Apparently the pledge only applied to NON-emergency...
Tags: Fox News, Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Glenn, Beck, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Chris Wallace (journalist), Fairness Doctrine, Net Neutrality, Localism, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh
Obama's Aim to End Free Speech in America?
Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech shines the light on a dark mission of the Obama administration-shutting down conservative voices on the radio and at the same time eviscerating the First Amendment. Will he succeed? Author Brad O'Leary writes...
Tags: censorship, free speech, First Amendment, Fairness Doctrine, Obama localism
Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio
Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio provides a perspective on the controversy including interviews with conservatives as well as liberal talk-show hosts. Read more: http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/censorship_the_threats_to_talk_radio#ixzz0TAg31XVV
Tags: talk show radio, radio talk shows, censorship, fairness doctrine, conservative radio
FCC Pick Backs Broadband Stimulus
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Julius Genachowski, the man nominated to head the Federal Communications Commission, said Tuesday he favors using $7 billion of stimulus money to extend broadband Internet service to consumers who lack access now, a view backed by big telecommunications...
Tags: fairness doctrine, FCC Pick Backs Broadband, Julius Genachowski
Reid Calls Fairness Doctrine a ‘Ghost that Doesn’t Exist’
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The Fairness Doctrine is a “ghost that doesn’t exist” and neither Democrats nor Republicans are interested in seeing it restored, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning. “The Fairness Doctrine – what a ghost...
Tags: fairness doctrine
[OPINION] The unfairness of a fairness doctrine
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The one getting the most attention involves creating a new fairness doctrine. The old doctrine was a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation, codified in the late 1940s, that required radio and television broadcasters to provide air time to...
Tags: Fairness Doctrine
Senate bars FCC from revisiting Fairness Doctrine
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Hannity, Rush,Billo, and every other right wing nut radio call in host. Gee, I missed Durbin's name mentioned in this article must be written in invisible ink. " JTV wrote on Feb 26, 2009 4:47 PM: " Durbin will try anything to silence his detractors....Any...
Tags: Fairness Doctrine, Durbin, Senate
'Fairness Doctrine' threatens rights
Tullahoma :: TN :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Twenty-two years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) struck a mighty blow for free speech in America by eliminating an inaptly named regulation known as the "Fairness Doctrine." Before that, radio and television broadcasters were forced to...
Tags: fairness doctrine
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