What represents a big win for everyone’s first amendment right, the FCC once and for all struck the Fairness Doctrine from law. “The elimination of the obsolete Fairness Doctrine regulations will remove an unnecessary distraction. As I have said, striking this from our books ensures there can be no mistake that what has long been …
That’s not news. That’s just the way it is. Only now there are emails that substantiate what everyone to the right or Arlen Specter always knew. —”According to one October 22, 2009, email exchange between Dag Vega, Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff, to Jenni LeCompte, then-Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in …
For those who believe that reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, or anything like it, will reduce violence, consider this. The Fairness Doctrine was in place from 1949 to 1987. In the “era” of the Fairness Doctrine we saw the following: 1950 – An assassination attempt on U.S. President Harry S. Truman occurred on November 1, 1950. …
Actually, it is considered censorship here too, although the political Left will disagree. Freedom, especially freedom of the press and freedom of speech has been diminished in Hungary. Hungary’s recently elected right-wing government has introduced a law demanding — under threat of fines and even shut-down — that news sources be “fair and balanced,” to …
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It is by design that Americans are guided and protected by a Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately for the people of Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the hemisphere’s idiot, feels no such responsibility to freedom of speech in his country. It is just a bit ironic that some in our country feel that …
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It is with a touch of schadenfreude to deliver this news today. Air America Radio goes bankrupt, again. Getting yet one more chance to learn the hard way how business economics works, for a lack of advertising support, they’ve just run out of ‘investors’ to keep them afloat. There’s one thing about Liberals on a …
Forget about the fact that McCain-Feingold was plainly and clearly contrary to the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Especially the ”Congress shall make no law’ part. Here’s what the First Amendment of the Constitution is . . . Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or …
In two words, THEY DON’T. They hate free speech. They don’t have any room for it. Eventually, they will do to you what they did to me, if by no other means than by bringing in the Fairness Doctrine through the back door. However, the spineless bed-wetting liberals at Air America Radio are not so …
Talkers magazine, the leading industry magazine and newspaper for the talk radio business, awarded Rush Limbaugh with the coveted Freedom of Speech Award at the New Media Conference of Talkers Magazine in New York over the weekend. Talkers . . . Rush is now the first two-time recipient of the prestigious honor, for the massive …
Following up on an opinion piece in the Pensacola News Journal by Air America Radio host Mike Papantonio, the Lunch Counter post Rush Has Zero Impact was essentially, a copy of the comment I made on the PNJ’s website where the talk show host’s column first appeared. Curiously enough, that same comment does not pass moderation on the …