I’m writing in response to a recent letter by M.E. Johnson regarding the Orwellian-named Fairness Doctrine.

The essence of the doctrine, which is aimed squarely at A.M. radio, is to require stations to give equal time to both right- and left-wing topics, thus crippling these stations, which are admittedly dominated by conservative content.

For starters, Mr. Johnson offers a list of right-leaning talk show hosts and columnists to bolster his stance that the media is not controlled largely by liberals. If we look closer, however, we will see that each of these folks who are listed have their own liberal counterpart, as with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. The same is true with the print media. For example, the same papers that run Mike Rosen also run Maureen Dowd and other liberal pundits. Which brings us to talk radio.

The plain fact of conservative domination of talk radio seems to really stick in the craw of the lefty libs. The fact is, conservatives took a dying format and breathed life into it and it flourished. Since they can’t compete, liberals want to use the force of government (of course) to “regulate” the content and make it more “fair.”

I’d like to introduce an idea that will undoubtedly seem like a radical one to the leftists and libs who are all too willing to give the growing government even more power: Let the free market determine who gets time on A.M. radio. If folks will support it, there are people out there who will pony up the money to promote it. Let the liberals launch their own talk radio network — wait a minute, they already have. It’s called Air America, and it is failing fantastically.

The American people, even liberal Democrats, don’t want to listen to hour after hour of doom and gloom and how our country is the cause of every major problem in this troubled world.

Folks, there are thousands of places to get and give information in this modern age. The Internet is a haven for both sides of the political aisle to posit their viewpoints, along with more TV channels than you can count. Don’t support the so-called Fairness Doctrine, it’s an affront to free-thinking people everywhere.

Freedom, not more government control of what we see and hear. That’s real progressive thinking.

BRADY BLOZVICH
Mack

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