{"id":3853,"date":"2008-12-22T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:13:35","slug":"frankens-old-boss-hearts-rush-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"Franken&#8217;s Old Boss Hearts Rush Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/Limbaugh%20Is%20Right%20on%20the%20Fairness%20Doctrine\">Limbaugh Is Right on the Fairness Doctrine<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative talk radio has worked itself into a tizzy lately over the rumored revival of the Fairness Doctrine &#8212; the FCC policy that sought to enforce balanced discussion on the nation&#8217;s airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>As the founding president of Air America Radio, I believe that for the last eight years Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have been cheerleaders for everything wrong with our economic, foreign and domestic policies. But when it comes to the Fairness Doctrine, I couldn&#8217;t agree with them more. The Fairness Doctrine is an anachronistic policy that, with the abundance of choices on radio today, is entirely unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom is that Rush&#8217;s success depended on the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. Some say that if he had to make time for opposing opinions, Rush would have flopped. Personally, I think he is most entertaining when he is dismantling opposing arguments. He&#8217;s successful because he is a superior entertainer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8230;I also think he&#8217;s successful because despite his personal foibles, he&#8217;s right more often than he&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limbaugh Is Right on the Fairness Doctrine Conservative talk radio has worked itself into a tizzy lately over the rumored revival of the Fairness Doctrine &#8212; the FCC policy that sought to enforce balanced discussion on the nation&#8217;s airwaves. As the founding president of Air America Radio, I believe that for the last eight years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-talk-radio","tag-fairness-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25436,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/25436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}