Fighting the Fairness Doctrine

As you may have heard, Democrats in Congress aren't satisfied with having the vast majority of the media acting as their mouth piece. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, et. al. just aren't enough propaganda arms to really get their liberal message out there. No, they need to muzzle talk radio, now (since they've realized they can't make in an industry where listeners think, as the Air America debacle shows). So they want to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine" which says you have to give equal time to all points of view in a broadcast (again, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times just don't add up to Rush Limbaugh). It's really an attempt to try and neuter or nullify what conservatives have to say.

But Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is working to block the "Fairness Doctrine" (sounds like those communist jokes like "The People's Democratic This" or the "Peace Loving Peoples of..." that, or the Soviet propaganda paper "Pravda", pravda meaning "truth").

From CNS News:

Pence's proposal, which he is calling the Broadcaster Freedom Act, would not only block the return of the regulation, but legally prohibit the FCC or any future president from reinstating it.

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council says,

"In fact, in the larger media world including broadcast TV, public broadcasting, and print, the left predominates. The challenge for them is getting people to listen," he said. "To seek parity in talk radio by restraining the freedom of others is neither free, nor equal, nor fair."

So sad that liberal ideas can't compete in a free, fair thinking arena, and they feel they must resort to regulating that with which they disagree.