July 8, 2008

Her last name is Slaughter. Enough said.

Apparently Republican radio needs to be controlled. I'm being brainwashed from the mass amounts of Right media out there, especially by Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Oh no, save me Media Ownership Reform Acts!


BILL MOYERS: You're saying that your fairness doctrine would simply mean that if a radio station or television station offers one position, like Rush Limbaugh, on a bill or a campaign of President or an election, they should also have people who disagree with Rush Limbaugh?

LOUISE SLAUGHTER: Absolutely. They should not be putting their own bias and their own feelings out on their radio station because they think they own it. It has to be done as a public trust and in the public interest.

BILL MOYERS: But the first amendment guarantees the right of free press.

LOUISE SLAUGHTER: If they owned the airwaves, then I'd probably have no complaint. But they don't. It belongs to us. Part of our democracy. It's part of the ability that we have to contact our citizens. It's a way that we want our children to grow up with some understanding of what this country is about and what it's based on and what their choices are.

For more of this great insight, go
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Because liberals deserve the right to free speech, too.

1 comment:

The Vicar of Vanity said...

Good point. Good blog start. I am proud. If you can post consistenly you are more resilient than I am.