RADIO MONARCHY
TIME FOR FAIRNESS
TIME FOR FAIRNESS
AM hate radio is monopolized (literally) by ultra conservative thought and is really a Land of Lies, fantasies of the right. They have re-written American history and have millions of decent people brainwashed. They literally refuse to ever have any honest progressive minded people on their networks with their own show, not even as a guest. They have their phony neo-con lying sheep like Alan Colmes, Juan Williams and Pat Cadell and they try to convince their audience that these transparent con-men really are liberals who have given up on the Democrats for valid reasons.
They are the WWF of political discourse along with Fox News...pure rightwing propaganda.
Knowing full well that despite the fact that Georgia is conservative statewide, in Athens and Atlanta the majority of people are liberal Democrats and these areas are true Blue in every election...Therefore according to the theory that pure capitalism will take care of free speach it should be obvious that a liberal radio host like Jeff Santos from Boston or Ed Schultz or Al Sharpton, or Carl Wolfsohn form Portland could be syndicated into these markets and be profitable, the same way Boortz is on the air in rural conservative areas around the country.
But when I have repeatedly approached WGAU, WSB and Cox broadcasting to ask for a simple dollar mark in ad revenue that they would require to broadcast one of these shows they balk. I say, 'tell me what your ad revenue is for the 6-9pm slot because I know dozens of business owners who are interested in sponsoring a liberal talk show' and they say straight up 'no we're not interested'.
The truth is that even if they could make more money with a real liberal in that slot in terms of ad revenue, they know the politics of the host would call for their corporate ownership to be taxed at a higher rate so they refuse.
NOW WSB HAS BOUGHT 95.5 THE BEAT TO SIMPLY REPLAY THE SAME IDENTICAL PROGRAMMING AT THE SAME TIME TO THE SAME PEOPLE...THIS IS BRAINWASHING!
This is a bastardization of capitalism and the denial of free speech and a mis-use of our public airwaves, it is a radio-monarchy and it is time for the FCC to step in.
For every 10 hours of partisan broadcast on any station there should be one hour set aside for rebuttal and this should be enforced by the FCC. The arbiters of who does the rebuttal should be made up of a bipartisan group representing the RNC and the DNC and this should be enforced by the FCC.
THE POWER OF RADIO...People understandably believe that someone who can talk extemporaneously live on the public airwaves about the issues of our time is an impressive person.
ReplyDeleteSo, it is therefore rude and bullying at least and illegal hopefully for the leasors of the public airwaves in any community to offer no counterbalancing views concerning the active issues of the day.
Anybody knows that we need to hear from all perspectives to keep things in perspective.
We need a law, like England has, that one cannot lie in political ads.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, have you ever read any of Brad Hicks' essays? He's an iconoclast and I don't agree with everything he says but he's very interesting. He wrote a five-part series about right-wing religion actually being satanism that is especially good. It is relevant here because it includes a story about the Republican Party anti-Communist Caucus making a pact with the devil. If you want to read it, it's here: (I've included the short essay where I first heard about Brad.)
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ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for all the good info'. I look forward to digging into it tonight.
Do you have any more info about the rule concerning political ads in England that you referenced? I'd like to read that. Thanks, CS
Oh and I have seen some Bill Hicks and really liked it, thanks for the links...
ReplyDeleteHere's one article about "no false statements" in England. I got it from people on Facebook.
ReplyDeletehttp://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/11/05/british_election_overturned_because_of_false_statements.html
and here's another one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/former-minister-phil-woolas-loses-his-seat-2126251.html
Thanks Kim!
ReplyDeletethe fairness doctrine = communism....no way around it. the liberal traitors are and always were against free speech. how else could they stop the truth from coming out?
ReplyDeleteliberals are traitors period and thank god this country is waking up.
advise for all liberals...move to europe...you won't have to change a thing....you people are just in the wrong country. Americans will not stand for socialism.
ANONYMOUS LIAR FROM HELL-
ReplyDeleteYou and the rest of the mouthbreathing neanderthals have been utterly brainwashed by the right! Why don't you stinking idiots deal with the reality that while all the rightwing radio retards are selling you gold yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that Soros owns more gold than ANYBODY just as a hedge and he warned the petty buyer that someday he will sell ALLOF HIS GOLD in one day and the value will go to one fourth what it is! The WSJ even said that if you had bought gold in 1980 that accounting for inflation the price would have to go up 26% from where it is now for you to break even.
The radio right are nothing but the same selfish liars as the tv preachers who promise that every dollar you give them will bring you three back from GOD! Utter crapola!
From 1940-80 when America did everything great we ever did and paid for it, taxes on the richest Americans were double to triple what they are today...TRY DEALING WITH REALITY!!!!
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