If conservatives truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
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.
Nelson Davis | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
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.
Bill Mann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
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.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to bar federal regulators from reimposing a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced co...
Fox News | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
The Senate approved an amendment Thursday that would outlaw the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," an off-the-books policy that once required broadcasters...
Fox News | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a spokesman told FOXNews.com Wednesday. ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media
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?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media
So, I get emails from Ann Coulter now. And terrifyingly, these emails detail the dreams she has, at night.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.22.2009 | Media
As we've been documenting, the latest paranoid delusion among media purveyors on the right is that a revival of the "Fairness Doctrine" -- a mid-20th ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media
As I've mentioned before, one of the singular concerns of the Right since the election of Barack Obama is the paranoid fear that the "Fairness Doctrin...
Steve Young | Posted 12.22.2008 | Media
The Right is back to their old tricks, as if they ever left them. Now it's not the Fairness Doctrine. It's the Censorship Doctrine. Instead of giving...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media
Yesterday, we talked about how conservatives were all a-leap with terror over the wholly hallucinatory notion that President-elect Barack Obama and th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media
When things are looking up for them, it's no big bother to tune in to some radio talk at the lunatic fringe end of the right wing radio dial and hear ...
Steve Young | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
The second best thing that could have happened to right wing talk radio would have been McCain winning the presidency. The first best thing: McCain lo...
Rasmussen Reports | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media
Nearly half of Americans (47%) believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and libe...
Business & Media Institute | Jeff Poor | Posted 09.13.2008 | Media
There's a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media
Conservative fears of an impending Democratic attack on right-wing talk radio continue to escalate, despite ample evidence that such an assault is unlikely to occur.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
Not surprisingly, the concerted conservative focus on limitations of free speech seems more devoted to stirring up the base than combating any real danger.
Art Brodsky | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media