The McClatchy Newspaper home page brings us this story about a suggestion to revive The Fairness Doctrine, which was abolished by the FCC in 2000 in response to a court challenge, thus exacerbating the ever-rightward tilt of our corporate media.And you’ll never guess who made the suggestion. Was it Hillary Clinton? Ted Kennedy? Dennis Kucinich? Joe Biden? Michael Moore?
No. It was Trent Lott (I’m serious).
It seems our Jim Crow descendent is unhappy over the failure of the immigration bill in the Senate, complaining that the outcome of the whole matter was dictated by right-wing talk radio.
Uh, yep. And you have a problem because?
I mean, let’s face it Trent; this was the plan all along, and you know it. The freeper bloviators provide the sole source of “information” to too many people who are either too lazy or too ignorant to read about and analyze news issues themselves through a variety of source material and thus make up their own minds. So the Limbaughs, O’Reillys, Hannitys and Medveds of the world reduce everything to simple pabulum which is usually factually incorrect, pretty much telling a bunch of gullible morons what they should do for the ultimate betterment of corporate America and the investor class.
And now you’re suggesting that – gasp! – the government steps in to provide balance, sanity and intelligence to our hopelessly polluted political dialogue again? Have you gone mad? What in the name of Richard Mellon Scaife could you possibly be thinking about here?
And regarding the argument that only conservatives can be successful on talk radio, I present this highly skewed interview Smerky gave to progressive talker Ed Schultz (didn’t take much note of the host’s contribution to the Inquirer yesterday, by the way).
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