The Goat Pen

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 9:21 am They should call it "The Fairness Doctrine"

The fairness doctrine has been used by various administrations to harass political opponents on the radio. Bill Ruder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy administration, acknowledged that "Our massive strategy [in the early 1960s] was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."[24] Former Kennedy FCC staffer Martin Firestone wrote a memo to the Democratic National Committee on strategies to combat small rural radio stations unfriendly to Democrats:

The 1987 repeal of the fairness doctrine enabled the rise of talk radio that has been described as "unfiltered" divisive and/or vicious: "In 1988, a savvy former ABC Radio executive named Ed McLaughlin signed Rush Limbaugh — then working at a little-known Sacramento station — to a nationwide syndication contract. McLaughlin offered Limbaugh to stations at an unbeatable price: free. All they had to do to carry his program was to set aside four minutes per hour for ads that McLaughlin's company sold to national sponsors. The stations got to sell the remaining commercial time to local advertisers." According to The Washington Post, "From his earliest days on the air, Limbaugh trafficked in conspiracy theories, divisiveness, even viciousness" (e.g., "feminazis").[44] Prior to 1987 people using much less controversial verbiage had been taken off the air as obvious violations of the fairness doctrine.[45]

eCat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:27 am He is an old man - he is going to continue to make those mistakes

Trump is an old man too

I'd like to see a 55 year old president

hedge wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:23 pm "This was a tool used by the left to suppress critical political speech. Twas never used by the right."

Right, J. Edgar Hoover (and therefor the entire FBI) never spied, hounded, kept extensive dossiers on and jailed (probably killed plenty too) anybody he deemed an enemy of the state. Never happened...

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:47 pm

eCat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:27 am He is an old man - he is going to continue to make those mistakes

Trump is an old man too

I'd like to see a 55 year old president

I can announce next week.

hedge wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:40 pm You mean like letting the colored's vote? Yeah, that's exactly what you meant and still believe. We already know how you feel about women being allowed to vote. You're a fucked up motherfucker, you know that?