The Fairness Doctrine
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
since Reagan had this repealed ... it basically was the foundation of the christian right movement in media ... ie am talk radio and fox news ...
facts and truth went by way of the do do bird and misleading partisan mistruths became the norm ...
since Reagan had this repealed ... it basically was the foundation of the christian right movement in media ... ie am talk radio and fox news ...
facts and truth went by way of the do do bird and misleading partisan mistruths became the norm ...
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partisan half-truths were always the norm. No one is stopping liberals from having a radio station except liberals. Guys like Michael Medved and Jason Lewis are pretty damn factual.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
NPR has no bias and has never mislead, right? haha. Come on. And, remember, that is our tax money at work!
The shows you are referring to, to my knowledge, receive no government money. They should be allowed to speak about what they wish. If there's a demand for it, like Fox or right-leaning talk radio, the programs will stay. If there's no demand for it, like Air America, they will die.
Anyway, the government has better things to do... like shrink and get out of peoples business.
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agreed.
There's very little tax money that goes into that. I could tit-for-tat the huge amounts of money that go to things like a "creationist museum" or a Noah's Ark theme park.
That said... my husband listens to NPR relentlessly... drives me nuts. But I listen to it when he's driving and I don't really hear a "liberal bias" at all. If anything, most of the stories are dull as dust and the few political ones don't really seem to take sides at all.
I've always wondered just what that means... what businesses are they in that they need to get out of?
And I'm actually asking that... what would you like to see the government get out of?
Glad to hear you finally got to marry a dude.
Will you quit talking about it- and putting down Christianity- in every damn post you make.
You really are a narrow-minded-bore.
The constitution gave the federal government the authority for 17 things... they are acting just a wee bit outside of their bounds.
Marriage?
Drugs?
Education?
I can keep going...
Finally? We're Canadian, we got married like 7 years ago. Been together for 19. But thanks.
When a rather large majority of Christians stop passing laws to take away my family's rights, I'll be MORE than happy to never talk about it again. Deal?
Hm. Says the guy who's against gay marriage because it's in a book that was written a few thousand years ago to think that.
No.. those are good starts. There's a place we can at least try to meet in the middle. When you say "stay out of marriage," there's a place that hits home for me. So... the government doesn't recognize marriage at all and it's just something that any couple can do and it's just a word? Churches decide who they'll perform ceremonies for... Elvis impersonators do the rest?
(I'm not even trying to be a smart-ass here, I'm trying to understand what you mean by "get out of marriage.")
Drugs... totally agree. The way alcohol is abused but legal and seeing what medical marijuana did for friends of mine with cancer and late-stage HIV, that's something I agree with... but.. you think no controls at all? Just.. let the people do what drugs they want to do with no regulations? How could that work?
(again, I mean this.. not trying to "gotchya question" you)
Education...
That idea scares me a bit. You mean have no public schools at all? That's not something I'd support. I think it's in our best interest to raise the next generation to be able to think and communicate and live in the world.
well ... it depends on what you consider to be biases ... as a non-believer in global warming, i suspect your definition of bias is for lack of a better word ... biased ... haha
air america had better ratings than all of its competitor shows ... the failure in air america was not in listeners, it was in sponsorship dollars ... the big multi-national corporations that spend the most on advertising wouldn't touch air america ... that was the problem, not listeners ...
You're making way too much sense here POD...I predict another personal attack coming your way.
I should have been a bit more clear... I was directing that at the federal government. The states can really do as they please.
My vague point was that the Constitution is a restriction put on the federal government. It designates the ability of the federal government to do a handful of different things and disallowing the states to do the same things, and the rest are rights reserved to the states. And I think the federal government has grossly overstepped their bounds.
Ok that makes a bit more sense to me.
But how do we handle things like immigration rights?
For instance... My husband and I are Canadian but I also have American citizenship. He's here on a T1 Visa (covered by NAFTA.. he's an architect) and we've hired an immigration lawyer to start the process for him to stay here permanently. It's going to take about 5 years and cost us tens of thousands of dollars. If we were a straight couple, he would get a green card and that would be that. But that's a federal thing.
Many people ask us why we should care about marriage at all.. why we can't just "live together."
But a marriage isn't just "living together"... there are over 1500 special rights, privileges, protections, responsibilities and resources that come with marriage and the VAST majority of them are at the national level. So even if we lived in a State where our marriage was legally recognized, we wouldn't get access to those resources. Things like pensions and immigration rights, tax breaks, inheritance, power of attorney... If the federal government gets out of marriage... who handles those things that kinda have to be done at a national level? The states can't issue green cards.
That's true. But the world we live in is very different than the world where the constitution was written. Back then if you wanted to move to America... you ... well, you just got on a boat and came here. Green cards didn't exist and neither did the North American Free Trade Agreement.
There weren't drug cartels like there are now... there wasn't an internet and it was much easier to educate kids to grow and live in their own communities.
It's possible that I don't get it, but I can't see how laws written over 200 years ago can be relevant to our 21st century world.
I seriously hope your marriage is recognized one day in the US, and Cali.. and it pains me to see all the hoops you have to jump through and money you have to pay. Its really ridiculous.
Can you show me an example of NPR bias, please?
"With our thoughts we make the world"
Listen to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
Yeah, that is crazy. Good luck to you.