Do you value your First Amendment rights?
If you put Obama in the White House and give him a filibuster-proof congress, you can bet that the “fairness doctrine” will be reinstated. What would that mean to you?
Probably nothing in the sense that you will still be able to stand in your yard and say pretty much what you want to.
What it will mean is that any voice of opposition will be silenced. Here’s how it will work.
Under the fairness doctrine, when a “controversial” voice is aired, the broadcasting company, or station must allow an opposing view to be aired at their expense. Of course, those in power will define who is controversial. Stations will no longer be able to afford people like O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity and many other conservative voices, and we will lose access to the outlook of men and women like these.
Now maybe you don’t give a hoot about any of them, but do you really want a country where the government can silence any opposing view?
If that happens, we are no longer a free country.
Maybe you think we don’t need them, that we have several news outlets. I doubt that any sane person thinks the major outlets are unbiased. The closest to being balanced is Fox, and under “fairness” even they could be pressured to drop any offending voice.
If you have no alternative news source, then those in charge can feed you whatever tripe they want to and you will be none the wiser.
Think about it before you vote.
