What we need is something to take the place of Occupy; a sort of honesty movement to bring about greater transparency and accountability in government.
In Milwaukee five right-wing talkers on two stations directly supported Republican candidates 15 hours a day, five days a week. But these are public airwaves, not Republican airwaves, so the Media Action Center filed a legal challenge with the FCC to deny WISN and WTMJ their licenses.
The FCC has on the table a policy that would resurrect broad censorship rules -- very similar to those that were revoked in 1987 because of their chilling effect on free speech and the television press.
I believe I have found the legal means to put Talk Radio on trial at the FCC -- and perhaps eventually at the Supreme Court. The Wisconsin recall of Governor Scott Walker presented a golden opportunity.
Money is a good thing to have in a French electoral campaign, to be sure, but there is not that much money can buy.
This week we discuss the Rush Limbaugh advertiser boycott; verbal rape; PSAs on the Limbaugh flagship station; Maher's defense of Limbaugh; comedians and commentators; the Fairness Doctrine; good Rush versus bad Rush, and other topics.
In August, 2011, the final nail has been pounded into the coffin of the Fairness Doctrine.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the elimination of 83 outdated and obsolete agency rules on Monday, including ...
The removal of a public broadcasting subsidy of $445 million will not materially ease the budget deficit, but it will materially damage a precious American institution.
Free speech needs its own discipline, however enforced. The best rebuttal of the politics of hate is a torrent of love, and if not love then at least of facts.
Normal free speech rights can be dangerous for Democrats. But if you are a Republican disrupting a Town Hall meeting held by a Democrat, then shouting/screaming is expected behavior.
To the uninitiated, bringing Fairness to the public airwaves -- radio and TV -- is a no-brainer. But to Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh, bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine" could be a call to arms.
Orson Wells was censured for scaring millions people. But talk jocks tell tales of scare everyday as a matter of journalistic prerogative, and the FCC has little influence on the content of broadcasts.
Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein joined conservative radio host Micheal Medved Thursday on "The Ed Show," to discuss everything from Presi...
Disingenuously titled "The Taxpayers Right to Vote Act," Proposition 16 uses the initiative process to solidify the monopoly power of one company at the expense of California citizens.
President Obama understands he must reach the American public with the facts. Still, Fox News and, more importantly, talk radio will not allow their audiences to hear the unvarnished truth.
If conservatives truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality.
I recently made note of the fact that Fox News contributor Bill Kristol "set up Valerie Jarrett as the right's next target of insane hounding." And lo, as predicted, here are your friends at World Net Daily leading the way.
Rule number one for current talk radio success seems to be to demonize a person, his or her belief system, or an entire political party.
We should talk about pulling local radio-station licenses, plus other effective and practical measures of attacking the real problem -- the right-wing media malice machine.
The paranoia that Obama would be getting all up in the radio tubes and force talk radio to start presenting an equal array of opposing viewpoints, thus destroying America, has persisted.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to bar federal regulators from reimposing a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced co...
The Senate approved an amendment Thursday that would outlaw the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," an off-the-books policy that once required broadcasters...
President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a spokesman told FOXNews.com Wednesday. ...
Why do all the right-wing television personalities fear the Fairness Doctrine so much? Could it be because if it were reinstated they would have to enter into a real public debate?
