Just today, a promo for WVLK-am (the Hannity station) had just a 10 second blurb from yet another biased talking head, railing against the US House resolution officially recognizing the Turkish genocide of the Armenians--up to TWO MILLIONS OF THEM--way back in 1915-1917. This guy had the audacity, the sheer unmitigated WARPED sense of values to call the House members so voting disgraceful (or despicable, I can't quite recall).
Imagine that--just a promo for the station, a promo that promises more of the same. The Congressional leaders FINALLY standing up to tell the truth of the long, long overdue and THEY are the ones who are "disgraceful" for doing so.
OUR MEDIA (airwave) IS A MESS! You who are in the media--public media, newsprint, commercial airwaves--how can you not be addressing the following scenario: Sean Hannity, Rush, et al who non-stop, every day, every hour LIE and propagandize for the Republican Party and demonize everybody else. You know it if you've listened for just a few minutes. NO attempt at objectivity, ever. And no requirement for equal time for the opposing political viewpoint--as there was for over 40 years until the death of the Fairness Doctrine.
Since the Republican controlled FCC, under the Reagan Administration, voted 4-0 to trash the Fairness Doctrine, opposing views and opinions have absolutely been squeezed out of the airwaves, particularly radio. Ironically, the Conservative-ran FCC justified ending the Fairness Doctrine by saying, "the intrusion by government into the content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of [the Fairness Doctrine] restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters ... [and] actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists."
NOTHING IS FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! As soon as the stations were unshackled by the Fairness Doctrine the rise of Rush, of Savage, of O'Reilly and Hannity began. LOOK WHO OWNS THE MEDIA!
It may be fun to "Whack-a-Murdoch" http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=whackamurdoch but the destruction of our Democracy is absolutely terrifying.
Respectfully, Rfd
