[Dean's World] Dave Price: Fair and Balanced Fascism

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Posted by Dave Price:
Fair and Balanced Fascism
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1182440742.shtml


   Bruce "McQ" McQuain [1]breaks down the [2]newest effort to summon the
   Fairness Doctrine back from its well-deserved grave.

     In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the
     top five commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday
     talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was
     progressive.
     ...
     The obvious point ... have the FCC step in and force "fairness" by
     ensuring the "progressive" (liberal) view is aired equally with the
     conservative view on stations.

   Meanwhile, Drudge has [3]this under the headline "Reporters give Dems
   money over Republicans 9 to 1!" There's our fair and balanced media.
   And Dems have the gall to complain about talk radio and boycott Fox
   News.
   Oddly, no one seems to be talking about regulating the print and
   broadcast news media, or other disseminators of information like
   colleges that also tend to lean left, in order to make them more
   conservative.
   This is why itâs so hard for me to vote Dem, despite that I agree with
   a fair amount of their agenda; they have far fewer compunctions about
   abusing government power to achieve political ends (there is a
   minarchist current in the GOP largely absent from the other side of
   the aisle). In 6 years of controlling both elected branches, the
   Repubs never dreamed of regulating the media to make them more
   politically agreeable. We can only imagine the shrieks of horror and
   outrage that would emanate from the NYT, CNN, etc. were anyone to
   entertain such fascist notions.

References

   1. http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=6274
   2. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/talk_radio.pdf
   3. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485