Rush Limbaugh and the Fairness Doctrine: Do We Need a New Version?

Dallas has voted solidly Democrat for several election cycles. But

the radio dial here is still

100% right wing hate talk all the time

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Certainly these big stations are not fulfilling their obligations to

serve the public interest.

I am a physician and joined with an anti smoking group that about

1996 was staging a boycott of Philip

Morris products and connected it with Senator Jessie Helms for

promoting massive taxpayer subsidies for

tobacco companies, The group was fined $10,000 by the

Federal Election Commission for "indirectly interfereing with a

federal election"

Yet Sean Hannity broadcast his "Stop Hillary Express," later the "Stop

Obama Express" as the major part

of his 3 hour ABC radio show for the better part of 2 years. How is

this not a massive illegal influence of a

federal election in the order of hudereds of millions of dollars in

air time to influence a federal election?

This is exactly what the Reagan administration planned when they

scrapped the Fairness Doctrtine in 1987.

The Democrats can be demonized 24/7 using airwaves OWNED BY THE

PUBLIC. It's a perpetual fist on the scales

of justice and fairness.

Dr, Jean Tant of 2:45AM February 02, 2010