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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
The dopes who want the fairness doctrine are just as bad the the few remaining republican senators, their playing to an extremist base. Anyone who's good at playing politics knows you want to keep those idiots talking, and keep them pushing independents away.
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I think the fairness doctrine is an idea that sounds evil on paper, but is much worse than the alternative.
With media deregulation the way it is, you have a select few media conglomerates. With absolute free reign they can pretty much shove their agenda down your throat without anyone calling them on that particular agenda.
-look on how watergate was treated more than 30 years ago compared to the iraq war 6 years ago. Even the "liberal" media failed to questions obvious falsehoods like hussein being linked to al-queda. He waged an entire war on intelligence that was dubious at the time, not afterwards. In all fairness he bush should have been impeached, had the media been doing their jobs.
...I think the media be increasingly for-profit is just as bad as outright state censorship. Nobody is called on their ****, things don't even have to be newsworthy. You just have 24 hours of opinionated blowhards like bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh, and other marginally left wing(meaning not super-right wing) blowhards.