Comments on: BRING ON THE DEBATE: The Fairness Doctrine II http://www.scottgraves.com/archives/627 The Convergence of New Media, Politics, and Online Development Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:56:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: PBCliberal http://www.scottgraves.com/archives/627/comment-page-1#comment-384 PBCliberal Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:23:05 +0000 http://www.scottgraves.com/?p=627#comment-384 The first people who would scream bloody murder if the first amendment were fully and completely applied to broadcasting, would be the folks who put Limbaugh and Hannity on the air, because they depend on congress making laws controlling broadcasting to maintain their monopolies. I think you're being manipulated by folks who aren't telling you the whole truth. They're not afraid of the fairness doctrine. That's dead. They're afraid that their bad business practices will cause them to lose their government-mandated monopolies, as I describe in my open letter back to Limbaugh answering the deceptive WSJ you quote above. Click <a href="http://www.pbcliberal.com/index.php/2009/02/22/fairness-doctrine-local-content-rush-limbaugh-sadaam-hussein-911-wmd-mushroom-cloud/" rel="nofollow">here</a> for an interesting article. The first people who would scream bloody murder if the first amendment were fully and completely applied to broadcasting, would be the folks who put Limbaugh and Hannity on the air, because they depend on congress making laws controlling broadcasting to maintain their monopolies.

I think you’re being manipulated by folks who aren’t telling you the whole truth. They’re not afraid of the fairness doctrine. That’s dead. They’re afraid that their bad business practices will cause them to lose their government-mandated monopolies, as I describe in my open letter back to Limbaugh answering the deceptive WSJ you quote above.

Click here for an interesting article.

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