01.02.09
Fairness Doctrine Unites
Citizens of the U.S. need the Fairness Doctrine (FD). Adopted as an FCC rule in 1949, the FD intended media outlets to “ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair.”
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm
In 1987 the FD was repealed by Ronald Reagan’s deregulation crew. (This same crew deregulated the banking industry!) Since then the media has wondered to the right and left of political ideological extremes. The media has made even inconsequential issues controversial and can’t seem to decide on a fair and balanced approach. This media chaos has hurt citizen’s pocket book like the present financial crisis. The only difference being that the media attacks citizen’s pocketbooks indirectly though socialistic, capitalistic or feudalistic ideas.
Since the repeal of the FD, politics has become a source of entertainment. Talk radio has become more entertaining than most other media sources. A dark side, encouraged by political entertainers, has evolved post-repealed FD. U.S. citizens are becoming divided by media labels.
The liberal or conservative labels are the dark side of political entertainers. They inflame people without giving any logical or realistic solutions. They divide people into liberal and conservative ideological camps. Most political entertainers live ‘out of touch’ lifestyles, like the corrupt politicians they seemingly ‘expose’. Creating divisive ideological camps and a dark political atmosphere serves only one purpose – to put money into the pockets of the political entertainers and their sponsors.
Most mass media today is arguably liberal-leftist in their slant on news. (The hippies knew back in the ‘60s that all news was controlled, censored and bias even with the FD. But that’s a topic for another time!) Talk radio and selected TV programming are the exception. Some political entertainers say they are the balance to liberal-leftist media. Why not let the FD be the balance for all media?
Obama’s administration will reinstate the FD. Why not ride the FD wave expand it to the nation’s universities? That would be a logical extension of the FD that even political entertainers wouldn’t object too. Implement the FD in universities that receive federal funding. How would professors react if they had to teach both sides of controversial issues instead of indoctrinating from the right or left? Maybe they would have to do some research on opposing viewpoints! Maybe, Yale, Harvard and Cal would have to hire some new facility!
With the FD we had the likes of Ike, Nixon and Reagan. After repealing the FD we got the Clintons, The Bushs and now Obama. History will show which group did more damage to the U.S. economy and the American Dream. Chances are most of us already know the answer because we’re feeling it right now!
Repealing the FD has divided the nation. Media’s political entertainers have stirred the pot. They are giving the citizens a false sense of security. Citizens assume because it’s in the media that someone has to do something to correct the situation. The opposite is true.
Citizens think political entertainers expose the truth about corrupt politicians and their unconstitutional policies. They think all citizens know and care about the truth. Whether they do or don’t isn’t the reason the FD should be reenacted. Political entertainers have set up a scenario of good vs. evil. Generally, political entertainers continually reemphasize the conservative and liberal labels. That divides citizens and the country.
Politicians that play the class envy and racial cards are also dividing the country. A country divided is conquerable. It is conquerable not by invading armies but with a plague of Feudalistic ideas. A divided country can’t focus on its problems. The ideological bickering (fostered by a liberal and conservative media) keeps any common resolve from materializing.
Political entertainers moderate meaningless trivia. If the media’s political entertainers really wanted to inform and move people in a positive direction for the country they would unite not divide. They would discuss topics that touch all Citizens.
Here’s a short list.
Voter fraud should be eliminated. We have the technology to end voter fraud. Voting could be as simple as logging into a secure voting website and entering one’s social security number. Citizens could log in at home or at polling places. The national data base verifies the number and up pops your ballot.
Every legal citizen has a valid social security number. With the unions paving the way to end secret ballots, this is totally logical! The added bonus for the government would be that they would have accurate addresses for all social security recipients. Heaven forbid the government might actually save some money that’s going to fraudulent social security recipients.
The differences between conservation, littering and global warming should be discussed.
Why protocols like “The 6900 Series of Treasury Rules” exist in a free society? This type of protocol would fast-track serfdom for all living in the U.S.
http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/2008/10/government-protocols-for-economic.html
Political entertainers should connect Kissinger’s crowd to the world debt problem. They would expose the ideas that hava put the U.S. and world economy into dire financial straits.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1222996931
What deals did Kissinger make in the 70s’ with oil producing countries or Clinton in the 90’s with China to finance our growing, debtor’s society? And consequently, why the U.S. will never tap its oil reserves or be labor intensive producers again.
How rapidly escalating costs of higher education are limiting access to colleges and universities?
http://ideas.repec.org/p/stc/stcp3e/2005263e.html
Will the politicians stand in line for universal health care or will they have access to special health care services? Universal health care displays the feudalistic mindset.
Where is universal dental care? If one can’t chew food, one can’t stay healthy!
Who is David Walker, US Comptroller General and chief of the GAO, and what is his role in the U.S. economy?
Why are politicians talking behind closed doors about raising the income tax rates as much as 65% to service the national debt?
Is legalizing millions of illegal aliens about broadening the tax base for more federal revenue? How many illegals will stay in the U.S. knowing they will have to pay taxes instead of getting paid ‘under the table’?
What about the possibilities of another Gold Confiscation Order of April 5, 1933?
http://www.the-privateer.com/1933-gold-confiscation.html
Identify the forces and the people behind equalizing the standard of living throughout the world.
Does FEMA have the power: a) to restrict citizens’ ability to hoard food and fuel. b) to restrict citizens’ ability to have guns and ammunition. c) to forced citizens to reveal food, fuel stocks and guns they have. And why???
A virtual plethora of unifying topics awaits the political entertainers. Maybe the FD would encourage their discussion.
Interesting that the press reported recently of President-elect Obama’s eating spam musubi in Hawaii. Spam has a shelf life of about 50 years. It is the food of choice for those doomsayers hording food because of the theory of an impending economic collapse.
Political entertainers have already been somewhat gagged. Political correctness has censored how and what real people think and say in the media. Because of political correctness, political entertainers are not exposing solutions to political corruption and the nation’s problems.
Some think that the Fairness Doctrine is already in effect at the ‘fair and balanced’ Fox network. The liberal media hate Fox for that very reason. Now that same liberal media who worship Obama’s political regime will have to start looking and sounding more like Fox.
Obama’s regime will reinstate the Fairness Doctrine sometime after the inauguration. Imagine citizens calling for a fair and balanced NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and the rest. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
What’s wrong with the liberal media being made to present a conservative point of view?
Epilogue: First year law students are told that every issue has two sides. And that each side has many facets. Even with the FD – control will only be an illusion!
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