Fairness Doctrine Gone? I may faint!

The first decent thing has come out of the Obama administration in three years. The FCC has struck down the Fairness Doctrine rule! I cannot believe that he has allowed the FCC to throw away one of their base weapons against free speech, but I am so happy that they have. Of course I am suspicious, but for now .. rejoice.

I have to hand it to the libs, they figured out how to take a good thing, like diversity of opinion, and turn it into a weapon. They do this all over the place, and I think they learned it from the lawyers. One of the tricks of the legal world is called flooding. When you have to turn over a document due to the discovery process, and you don't want to, what you do is put it in the middle of about 10,000 other documents that are completely irrelevant and hope that they opposition team can't find the needle in the haystack.

They do the same thing with speech. If you want to put your viewpoint forward, that's fine, but you must include the other 10,000 viewpoints that are out there too. Hopefully your viewpoint gets lost in the shuffle. Now, we don't have to do that. Your voice can ring loud and true throughout the air, without the interferance of the other viewpoints. They can speak too, if they have the wherewithall to get up and do something.

Disparity in Reporting

My kids jumped me for only watching Fox News and only listening to it on XM. They said "Broaden your Horizons. Listen to both sides." So I did. The quality of reporting is astounding. While tuned to fox news I heard about the FAA Bird Strike scandal, Clinton saying that "War of Terror" is now an off limits term (much like terrorist strike is now a man caused disaster), and some of the ridiculous new legislation that has been introduced.

When I flipped to CNN I heard a bio of the vice president of Venuzuela (I think. It was some socialistic country.) talking about what a wonderful person he was. This gave way to a story about how the animals of the Red River are being hurt by the flooding, which of course is George Bush's fault due to Global Warming. (Give it up already guys, he's out of office.)

Then I flipped to Headline News and heard a couple of human interest stories about wonderful animals. Then some Democratic Senator was on talking about how evil anyone earning over $75,000 per year was and how all the poor people of America were going to be helped by Obama buying their houses with his housing rescue bill.

The quality of reporting between the three stations was astounding. I'm starting to think CNN should be the PETA network with all the animal stories they do. I have yet to hear any of the shocking bills that have been put before the congress. Granted, I can only stomach listening to their drivel for about five minutes at a time, so maybe I just keep missing it. Somehow I have my doubts.

This is what scares me about the Fairness Doctorine, or whatever form of it that they attempt to implement. If they succeed all we will be stuck with is the drivel. Congress will have successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of the nation as a whole. Anyone who reads this, I urge you to write to your Senators and tell them that you don't want any part of the Fairness Doctorine or the Equality in Radio Ownership programs that will force radio station ownership to set racial percentages. Tell them to let the market play out and to let people have the freedom of the press and the airwaves. And if they don't listen, vote their butts out in the next election.