The Fairness Doctrine. Sounds good, doesn't it? Just, fair, honest, balanced reporting of controversial issues, as decided by the FCC. FCC, PBS, WGN, FOX, NBC, WLS, CBS, EIB. Which acronyms don't belong in entertainment?
"And now, LIVE on the all new, ad-free FCC network, aka the FWYTD network (funded with your tax dollars), a fascinating look at today's news as filtered through your Federal Government." Boy, I don't want to miss that. C-SPAN stand back! This is going to be awesome!
If that's all it was, it would be just another avenue Democrats could use for propaganda, but when you start letting the FCC censor content, you have Socialism, and/or Communism. Case in point - China felt it could rewrite Barack Obama's inaugural speech LINK. That's what Communists do. North Korea told its people that they would have the 1988 Olympics, and the propaganda they launched (and bomb they planted) should not have been surprising. Media run by the State is not the media of the people. It's push media of the worst kind.
But we are actually looking towards media of the State here in the USA and it's being called FAIR. Hospitals, banks, schools ... heck, the State just needs to TAKE OVER because those big bad businesses just can't be trusted. That free market is just so hard to control, isn't it?
The Fairness Doctrine is a typical left-wing misuse of words to make something terrible sound so good. There are plenty of things about our political/electoral system that are not fair. Was it fair to take undocumented pre-paid credit card donations to pump up the donations to Obama's campaign? Was it fair to just leave off 2 major states (FLA and MI) from the Democratic Primaries? Is it fair to make a presidential campaign more about TV commercials, ad spending, and fund raising than any other factor? Is winner take all voting fair?
There's a lot that's not fair. Freedom of the press has not generally been thought of as one of them, although that ideal has since Watergate been used as the excuse the media can use to go after "the establishment" and Republicans, by and large, without disclosing sources. But now that conservative talk radio is popular as it breaks through a left-controlled mainstream media to tell an actual alternate vision and conservative philosophy, it's all about how unfair it is.
Who can trust a Federal government that spends money so greedily and recklessly? At least tigers peek up with their eyes on occasion as they rip into and devour their prey, but the now Democratic-controlled government doesn't even look up as it gorges itself on the taxpayers' money that's all theirs now, unchecked. We don't want these people telling us what's fair.
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