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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
While I have some doubts about the Fairness Doctrine from a free speech perspective, as well as some doubts about its effectiveness in even achieving its stated goal, I am willing to overcome those doubts sufficiently to have a protracted debate in which Rupert Murdoch spends million of dollars attempting to buy every available member of Congress on either side of the aisle.
In other words, I'm willing to set aside my prinicples to order a hit on Fox, for the sheer entertainment value of it. Watching the hypocrites dance sounds like a good time.
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Remember, Fox is the Right's lone voice on television. If the Left pushes the Fairness Doctrine debate, the result may be the very last thing it wants. If I were the Left, I'd try to copy Fox's business model.
The Left is so fucking stupid and sure of itself that it thinks Fox is succeeding because of the shrillness of its Right Wing rhetoric. Watch Fox a little more closely. It is succeeding because it is serving up tabloid news as salaciously as possible. The Left assumes the ideology drives the ratings. That's a small piece of it. Of all the things Fox is guilty of, slanting news is the least. It's real crime is how its dumbed down the news so quickly.
Like you, I'd abandon my principles for a Fairness Doctrine that forced smarter programming onto the networks to counter the idiot pap served to us now.
The Left would no doubt agree and suggest its views are somehow the more enlightened in an attempt to co-opt my position. Since it knows everything.
