Monday, January 31, 2005
The Fairness Doctrine
Salon's Eric Boehlert covers Louise Slaughter's efforts to revive the Fairness Doctrine -- efforts that the recent news of Bush Administration payoffs to conservative pundits has greatly assisted. Of course, the cons will fight this tooth and nail. They're quite happy with their near-stranglehold on the US corporate media's throat. (They're already busy trying to pretend that private citizens who are liberals can't be allowed to have radio networks. Somehow, the whole idea of "getting gummint out of our lives" goes out the window when they're the ones getting government paychecks thanks to Bush.) But it looks like we have a fighting chance to level the playing field.
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