I can almost taste that free Dr. Pepper now...

Aw, Karol hasn't heard that Guns n' Roses is over.

Sorry, Charles, not everyone can be as HIP as you.

Hip. Yep, that's me. You should probably check my link.

Hip? Yeah, that's me. Maybe you should take a look at my link.

Off-topic, but perhaps someone could help. I can't understand why the reps are seemingly opposed to this 'fairness doctrine'. If the media is so 'liberal', surely the right to reply would be a good thing, and keep brand republican in the public eye. One thing isn't square with the other, IMO. Help appreciated.

The Unfairness of The Fairness Doctrine

Scroll down to comment #11 in that thread.

Start there.

We like free speech, call us crazy.

That link isn't all that helpful Gerard.

Electronic media was solidly leftist from FDR until the dismantling of the FD. There was no alternative view. The FD was used to keep commentary off of the airwaves, or relegated to "overnight", when there was no audience. All one ever heard was the voice of the professional "news" shills. Democrats owned the airwaves, and the legislature while the FD was in place. There was no alternative to Cronkite. His was the only view you heard, and it was masked as news.

Talk radio would not exist with a FD. That's why it didn't exist while the FD was in place.

The alternative media outlets at the time, primarily radio, which supported FDR did so because he employed government coercion in order to make them disseminate his message, which was being attacked by the primarily conservative print media.

Rent "State of the Union," which revolves around a right wing media baron, played by a smoking-hot Angela Lansbury, and washed-up Republican senator who try to manipulate a popular businessman into the position of POTUS. It wasn't a satire.

No, talk radio couldn't co-exist with a Fairness Doctrine. It also won't exist with what Obama is planning, which mirrors the policies of FDR. He's going to destroy talk radio in a much more insidious, and efficacious, manner. The broadcast licensure requirements that will be introduced during the next administration will make your head spin.

Obama Declares War On Talk Radio

Net neutrality is next on the agenda.

What aspect of Obama's campaign gave you the slightest indication that he respects-or wants to preserve-any aspect of the 1st Amendment, let alone the entirety of the Bill of Rights?

Gerard, Bryan is a pommy bastahd, but he's finally figured out that there are some things that he doesn't understand through the Euro filter.

I'm sure you're on the money in re coercion. It's directly out of the democrat playbook. Fuck 'em, nobody will listen, and we'll all go to XM. When they start screwing with the web, well, that's getting personal. What the hell did that Patrick Henry dude say? "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains, and human bondage?"

Don't get me wrong, it was in their interest to collaborate with FDR, just like it was in the interest of corporate monopolies to use the government to put their entrepreneurial and capitalist competitors out of business, and still is, FWIW.

This is why the people who keep parroting the line that Obama is a centrist, or susceptible to persuasion annoy me so much. Warren Buffet and William Gates do not care if the capital gains tax is raised, or the inheritance tax is reimposed.

this is my absolute favorite Alarming News post title ever.