Thursday, May 17, 2007

The Politico.

The nonpartisan Putz links to an article bashing the Fairness Doctrine at the Politico, which begins with this clumsy partisan dig:
Buildings are renamed for people they have no business being named after. For example, the Justice Department building is now named after Robert F. Kennedy, who as U.S. attorney general illegally bugged Martin Luther King Jr.'s phone calls and hotel rooms.
And the FBI building is named for a thuggish serial law breaker and blackmailer. And the Senate office building is named for a lifelong champion of segregation. Kind of strange to pick on Kennedy, who helped bring down the mob and championed Civil Rights, isn't it?

As for the Fairness Doctrine, which seemed to serve the country fairly well for about 50 years before Reagan scrapped it, the article warns:
What would be the practical effect of the return of the Fairness Doctrine? Simple -- the end of talk radio as we know it.
Given that talk radio is a cesspool of wingnuttery -- Limbaugh, Savage, Boortz, Hannity, Ingraham -- would this really be a bad thing?

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