Originally posted by: Zebo
I like Rush a lot better than Bill. Rush seems like a fat jovial dude who only believes about 1/10th of what he says while Bill strikes me as downright mean-spirited and evil. Hannity is another from the dark side.
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Well everyone has a right to an opinion, I some what agree with Zebo on Bill, but I sure find nothing jovial about about Rush.
But in a thread about the fairness doctrine, I thought I would throw in this dated link.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053
After all, these are the public airwaves, its use is limited, and we already regulate television and radio in terms of profanity and the like.
But unlike the now repealed fairness doctrine, government has a far more powerful
tool it can use to either fairly regulate or censor, somewhat in the eyes of the beholder, and that is the ability to decline to renew the license of those stations that fail to operate in the public interest. And that too may motivate Mr. Murdock into casting out his less that fair and balanced commentators. Because when the Fox license goes up for renewal, you can bet a large number of non governmental
public interests groups are going to petition the FCC against renewal. And there best arguments will be selected tapes of O'Reilly, Hannity et all not acting in the public interest, fracturing all logic in the process, and in some cases, flat out telling lies to the American people.
And in fact, the government censorship argument can be used against Fox, because it is suspected as being in cahoots with the GWB administration, and
the so called GOP talking points were openly disseminated weekly by Fox and
others on the radio. And there is something scary about government owning the
means of mass communication, directly, or indirectly. And that goes to the heart of any free press and freedom of speech arguments.
As for Rush himself, he has no future in television, he had a spot as a sports commentator that did not last long, when he injected his own anti black bigotry
against a certain quarterback, the networks dropped him like a hot potato. Rush
can always appeal to a maybe 7% niche audience, but he will never meet the fat jovial likable universal appeal sniff test. Like Bill, there is something mean spirited knee jerk biased element in Rush that will always deny him a larger niche audience.
To too large an extent, Rush actually believes the stuff he says.
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