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• Wednesday, January 14, 2009 07:08 AM

  @ Amarajo

  "(5) News consumers, particularly those of talk radio, are overwhelmingly exposed to a single point of view. A 2004 survey by Democracy Radio revealed that 90 percent of all broadcast hours on talk radio are characterized as conservative. This imbalance results in issues of public importance receiving little or no attention, while others are presented in a manner not conducive to the listeners' receiving the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions.

  I can't say whether it's been reintroduced since then, but I wouldn't be surprised. The efforts of the Left to silence critics has a long history."

  While nowhere in your points do you actually cite a legilator that is currently and actively trying to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine, I think its kind of hilarious that, in the material you do cite, you seem completely oblivious to the fact that you yourself have kind of made a rather compelling argument *for* the Fairness Doctrine.

  Witness:

  1) "This imbalance results in issues of public importance receiving little or no attention, while others are presented in a manner not conducive to the listeners' receiving the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions."

  Followed by:

  2) "I can't say whether it's been reintroduced since then, but I wouldn't be surprised. The efforts of the Left to silence critics has a long history."

  Yeah! How DARE those darned dirty Democrats try to get people to receive the facts and range of opinions necessary to make informed decisions! Rock on, dog! Fight that good fight! :-P

  —Quentin Mohos Read Quentin Mohos's other letters
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