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| Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio |
| 2008-11-18 |
 By Jim Boulet, Jr.Barack Obama sought to silence his critics during his 2008 campaign. Now, with the ink barely dry on this November's ballots, Obama has begun a war against conservative talk radio. Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public and accordingly, far more dangerous. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #9 Yep, my NPR station (for which I'm taxed) is NOT local. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-11-18 20:15 |
| #8 This new tactic can be applied to NPR and PBS as well. The left should be careful what they wish for. |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-11-18 18:56 |
| #7 Lets wait until we see what happens and not try to sound like lefties after Bush won. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-11-18 18:45 |
| #6 IT sounds similar to the Canadian content law on a microscale. The result of that law was Bob & Doug McKenzie on the end of most episodes of SCTV. I suspect that having one block of local programming would be more than enough to satisfy all but the most obvious partisans when it comes to local content. Either that or one day a week is entirely local content. If not, I suspect a lot of new and varied conservative voices will fill in the void rather than have stations be silenced. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-11-18 17:34 |
| #5 MSNBC would fail. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-11-18 16:07 |
| #4 Prairie Home Companion HAS to be a public service. It ain't funny anymore. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-18 14:48 |
| #3 Will they entertain my complaints about a Prairie Home Companion? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-11-18 13:58 |
| #2 In San Diego we have local conservative talk show hosts. One of them is Rick Roberts who frequently fills in for Michael Savage so he has national experience as well. How are they going to silence him? This is really scary stuff. Really, really scary. Anti-democratic, dark and evil. BTW, would it mean they're gonna shut down Clear Channel while they're at it. CC has been the worst thing that ever happened to music on the radio and they desperately need to go away. Or does the One prefer bland, boring music over the seditious strains of genuine rock'n'roll played by real people? But I think streaming audio over the Internet could provide a remedy...that is until the One figures out what to do about that. As for listening in your car, it's about time we got computers with broadband wireless Internet in our cars and hook them up to the speakers. That would be far more versatile than the current radio/CD players. That's just another case where the geniuses in Detroit have dropped the ball. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-11-18 13:24 |
| #1 If a few complaints about an FCC licensee is enough to interfere with the renewal of its license, it would be easier to gum up the entire FCC renewal system by submitting a few complaints about each and every FCC licensee across the country. Jujitsu works both ways. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-11-18 13:13 |