Shot in the Dark

Tag: Fairness Doctrine

  • Snivel Radio

    Taylor Marsh addresses the Center for American Progress report in the same way that Hugh Hewitt addresses a new football season; with preconceptions firmly in place, and no perspective to lend any credence whatsoever – a shortcoming that is neither of their fault, per se, but still renders their commentary meaningless: Boy did American Progress…

  • Babble Radio

    As we on the right have been predicting for quite some time, the left – unable to match conservative talk radio in either the marketplace of ideas or the marketplace, wants to bring in Big Brother to do what their own feeble talent and intellect can’t. A report by the “Center for American Progress” –…

  • The Inoffensiveness Doctrine

    I hate “Free Speech in the Schools” debates.  On the one hand, students being adolescents, and adolescents having huge tolerance for drama, the controversies are frequently giggly, overwrought and self-serving. On the other hand, as I’ve noted (and will note further in the future), school administrations are frequently – how can I say this? – not…

  • The Democrat Case For The Fairness Doctrine

    OK, lefties, this one’s for you. Dennis “Starchild” Kucinich is floating the trial balloon; the left wants to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine”, which would require that broadcasters “balance” their politically-focused programming. This would either force stations to air liberal hosts (who are a drag on the market) or, as most stations did before 1987, steer…

  • So Pick Your Side

     The other day, when talking about the Dems’ plan to try to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine”, I noted that there really are only two sides to this debate; you support free speech, or you believe that federal bureaucrats should control it; the exact words were “authoritarian thug”.  We have a vote for thug: But the Fairness…

  • Free Speech’s Abu Ghraib

    Remeber during the first four years of the Bush Administration?  When every Democrat, including the ones who’d spent the Clinton era chuckling at the crazies in the Libertarian Party, thought concern for civil liberties (other those to abortion, making poop sculptures and exposing oneself in public) was the mark of tinfoil-hatted crazies?  Remember how the…