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This article made me feel sad and angry to think our freedom of expression may end, along with so many other freedoms we've recently lost.
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Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid charged today that liberal “media reform” activists, who expect a Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election, plan to limit conservative access to the media and force stations to put more left-wingers on the air. Kincaid will report the details of the unfolding plan as he covers this week’s “National Conference on Media Reform” in Minneapolis. Kincaid’s preview of the conference can be found in the column “’Media Reform’ Targets Conservatives,” at Accuracy In Media - For Fairness, Accuracy and Balance in News Reporting..
“The ‘progressives’ are angry that since the deregulation of the media, beginning in the 1980s, the liberal media monopoly has been challenged,” says Kincaid. He notes that most of the Big Media remain liberal but that “progressives” are angry that talk radio and cable news have found a receptive audience for conservative programming. One of their new tactics, he reveals, is calling conservative programming “hate speech.”
Personally, I enjoy hearing different views on things so I don't become a robot programmed the way the media or government wants. I don't have to agree with everything I hear.
Do you think this can happen here in the 'land of the free'? Do you think it should happen just to prevent 'hurt feelings'?
How can we preserve our right to say what we believe? I'm worried and a little angry.
I shot my TV months ago. My wife was quite upset because I didn't take it outside first. Now, I just read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. They say history repeats itself and I am finding that to be true. At least I now know what to expect.
Volume One - A Reckoning
Chapter VII: The Revolution
WITH THE YEAR 1915 enemy propaganda began in our country, after 1916 it became more and more intensive, till finally, at the beginning of the year 1918, it swelled to a positive flood. Now the results of this seduction could be seen at every step. The army gradually learned to think as the enemy wanted it to.
And the German counter-action was a complete failure.
In the person of the man whose intellect and will made him its leader, the army had the intention and determination to take up the struggle in this field, too, but it lacked the instrument which would have been necessary. And from the psychological point of view, it was wrong to have this enlightenment work carried on by the troops themselves. If it was to be effective, it had to come from home. Only then was there any assurance of success among the men who, after all, had been performing immortal deeds of heroism and privation for nearly four years for this homeland.
But what came out of the home country?
Was this failure stupidity or crime?
There is rumors of reinstituting the so called "Fairness Doctrine". Fairness Doctrine
Back when there were only 3 networks if someone did an op-ed on line the network was compelled to allow a counterpoint .
With the many options available to obtain information that is no longer needed and those who attempt to revise it are only doing so for punitive reasons. They want to fix the fact that liberal radio and televison does not get the same ratings as their conservative counterpart.
Instead of letting competition work they want to impose broadcast selection on the media.
This is an issue that has come up before since the doctrine was repealed in the 1980s .I do not think it will go anywhere ;but then again.......there are plenty of Repubulicansalong with almost all the Democrats who were mad that the public was mobilized to defeat the Comprehensive Immigration reform last year (including John McCain) who would love to see a legal muzzle on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
How can we preserve our right to say what we believe? I'm worried and a little angry.
What do you say?
Your right to say what you believe is not in danger. Don't worry. Be happy.
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Originally Posted by purplewings
??? I thought media's job was to fairly report a situation - not to label or take sides.
The media's job is to get as many people as possible to pay attention to it so that they can charge advertisers more money for delivering more eyeballs. It's important to understand that the only thing that matters to them is that you pay attention, not whether you approve or disapprove, agree or disagree. Disapproving attention is worth just as much to them as approval is, so stoking controversy is their stock-in-trade. If you really want to strike a blow against them, ignore them completely. If you aren't willing to do that, don't complain about what they serve up.
I'm old enough to know that conservative talk shows ARE the "balance". I well remember the time when all that was available was what the media wanted us to hear, and most of the media was owned by few ultra rich left leaning families. In spite of the "lack of balance" that they decry, Obama would be nowhere were it not for the puff job that the media gave him starting with his face on the cover of Time magazine.
Your right to say what you believe is not in danger. Don't worry. Be happy.
The media's job is to get as many people as possible to pay attention to it so that they can charge advertisers more money for delivering more eyeballs. It's important to understand that the only thing that matters to them is that you pay attention, not whether you approve or disapprove, agree or disagree. Disapproving attention is worth just as much to them as approval is, so stoking controversy is their stock-in-trade. If you really want to strike a blow against them, ignore them completely. If you aren't willing to do that, don't complain about what they serve up.
You only need tin foil hats to keep the aliens from bombarding your brain with unwanted information or orders to do something you wouldn't normally do. There is not a hat in the world that can block out Hannity and Colmes. You have to shoot your TV.
Thanks everyone. I actually don't watch or listen to any 'talk shows' but I certainly want to preserve our rights to broadcast them. Hopefully, our politicians will still allow us choices after the next president comes into the white house. Losing personal freedoms increase quickly after the first one slides by without complaint.
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