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The Fairness Doctrine Returns. It Just Won’t Be Called That.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Here we go folks.
The Fairness Doctrine is going to make a comeback under the Obama administration. It just won’t be via Congress and it won’t be called the “Fairness Doctrine.” It’ll come via the FCC, involve restrictions on media ownership and content, and it’ll apply to the internet too.
As Brian Darling noted, the administration and leftists in Congress will be using the Center for American Progress’s outline.
From the Prowler:
“This isn’t just ...
Fairness Doctrine Coming to an Intarweb Near You [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom —
... be co-opted for exactly such purposes. This is campus “hate-speech” prohibition applied to the nation as a whole. Its sole purpose is to skew the playing field in the direction of whatever beliefs it supports, and to punish those who would take exception to them. Soon enough, you may find yourself relegated to a little free speech zone ghetto, so enjoy your privilege (not right) to express yourself as you may while you’ve got it. Via Carin in comments to the previous post, comes this related article.
Teleprompter Jesus takes the next logical step
The Hostages: Planning A Code Red Since April 2007 —
... we all also remember those moments when the evil, hate-filled, (most likely Republican) teleprompter suddenly isn’t there to “guide” His Grace, and America’s first Affirmative-Action President has to wing it.
So let me say how much I am looking forward to President Sanjaya’s upcoming press conferences, now that he is going to be given a telepormpter in his podium. What could possibly go wrong???
Screening Obama
…..the White House is looking to install a small video or ...
Get Ready, Here They Come
Riehl World View —
What many have assumed all along, they don't need the Fairness Doctrine when they have the FCC. And don't think the Internet is out of reach. They are aiming at that, too, eventually. And this is priceless.
Remember when the Left went crazy because they thought Bush had some transmission device on during the debates allowing others to give him the answers?
Turns out Obama can't function in a press conference without that very thing. They must have been surprised to find out that the press actually can ask him a tough question on the rare ...
Report: FCC staff meeting with Waxman aides about bringing back Fairness?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Too juicy not to post, too sketchy to take very seriously. It’s the Prowler , guys. Caveat emptor. Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the “Fairness Doctrine” without actually calling it such. Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. “It’s ...
Monday holiday cocktail hour links
Maggie's Farm —
How Democracies become Tyrannies. Am Thinker
Somebody will eat crow. But who? Dino
Men often view naked women as objects. How much did that study cost? (h/t, Theo)
Re Fairness:
Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. "It's all about diversity in media," says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. "Does one radio station or one station group control four of ...
Democrat/FCC sources: Fairness Doctrine should also apply to the Internet
Sister Toldjah —
Sneaky b*stards:
Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the “Fairness Doctrine” without actually calling it such.
I can’t understand why anyone, especially a Democrat, would want to be deceptive on this issue, can you? ...
Shocker: Obama To Get High-Tech Teleprompter For White House Press Briefings
Say Anything —
... Obama came off like a robot delivering lines in his first “prime time” press conference, so to fix that his handlers are looking into installing a teleprompter into his podium so that they can feed him his lines. ...
Rep. Henry Waxman Wants To Apply Censorship Doctrine To The Internet
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... he is trying to squelch their voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue recently...the internet (h/t The Prowler).
Media Research Center's Jeff Poor spoke with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell last year about the internet and the Fairness Doctrine. McDowell talked about a real possibility of internet content being regulated in the near future.
According to The Prowler, Waxman and his staff are already looking at ways to police content on the web. ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Fairness Doctrine Returns. It Just Won’t Be Called That - Will Supreme Court Uphold?
Here we go folks.
The Fairness Doctrine is going to make a comeback under the Obama administration. It just won’t be via Congress and it won’t be called the “Fairness Doctrine.” It’ll come via the FCC, involve restrictions on media ownership and content, and it’ll apply to the internet too.
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There will be some real Constitutional issues here on free speech.
Doctrine Air Democracy - How The Left Reimposes the Fairness Doctrine
Senior FCC staff working ...
links for 2009-02-17
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: california losangelestimes california_gop george_skelton)
Doctrine Air Democracy - How The Left Reimposes the Fairness Doctrine
Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael ...
President Obama to be helped with answers at future press conferences.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
At least, if you believe the American Spectator, which admirably deadpans this hysterically funny revelation:
“It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech,” says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. “Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed.”
To that end, he says, the White House is ...
AmSpec's Prowler: Obama Getting High-Tech Help to Get Through Press Briefings
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Now the American Spectator's Prowler reports that the White House's communications crew is trying to do something about that. Not the preselection, no-no-no. They're trying to use high tech to hide that element of the briefings as much as possible, and further, to assist the supposed " ...
Obama, Irony and the Coup
The Anchoress —
... vs “speaking truth to power”
They love us: dropping more sanctions
Goldberg: Humorless Ironists
Steyn: Windmills of mindlessness
Briggs: The White House Should Not Control the Census. Yes, but we have no press; the “guardians” are busy throwing daisies.
Obama Pressers: They’ll be using small prompting screens to perfect the illusion.
Coming soon: but not too soon, I hope
Kiss ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/us/politics/17illinois.html?_r=1 Is Obama Competent To Speak To The Press?
Rhymes With Right —
If this report is anywhere near true, it doesnt appear so. [T]he White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. "It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it," says the adviser. The screen would indicate whom to call on, seat placement for journalists, pass along notes or points to hit, and so forth, says the adviser. Even George W. Bush could competently deal with the media. Apparently Barack Obama cannot do ...
Morning Briefing for February 18, 2009
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... says the adviser.
Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions.
Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.
“It would be the same idea with the podium,” says the adviser.
SOURCE
6. This is Why Government is Legalized Theft
Forced by court order ...
Dem Leaders Are Looking at Extending Fairness Doctrine to Internet
Gateway Pundit —
More hope, change and fascism... Democratic leaders are not just looking at extending the Fairness Doctrine to radio but also to the internet. The Spectator reported: Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the "Fairness Doctrine" without actually calling it such. ...
Obama the Sock Puppet
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Barack Obama, MediaThe American Spectator : In All Fairness One wouldn't know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don't think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week. "It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech," says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. "Every president has gone into one of these ...
White House: Obama Telepromter Story Not True
Politics Daily —
... That depends on your definition of "credible," I suppose. The American Spectator claimed to have hard reporting on the videoscreen story, although anonymously sourced. ...
His Royal Fairness
The American Spectator —
... believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated." The Fairness Doctrine, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- acting under Ronald Reagan -- repealed in 1987, would dictate that broadcasters cover issues of public importance and devote equal time to both sides of controversial issues. On its face, the administration's recent comments seem to deflate hopes of the expanding roster of groups and politicians calling for revival of the Doctrine. The American Spectator reported recently that Henry Waxman (D-CA) already met with the FCC staff to discuss ways to ...
Fox News Runs With Fake Obama Teleprompter Story
Politics Daily —
... questions, the media and late night joke writers completely ignored it.The story he links to is mine, and it says nothing about any Teleprompter. While that alone is ironic, what's even better is the reason why my story says nothing about the Teleprompter. It isn't true. Obama didn't use the Teleprompter while answering questions, as they lowered into the floor after his opening remarks. Oh, but it gets better. He goes on to reference another lie of a story, one which I personally debunked in another story. Neat bit of symmetry ...
All The Known Gaffes Of The Obama World
Jules Crittenden —
... . I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question? 21. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference . Big boys don’t need training wheels. 22. Opening a press conference with: ...
Controlling Internet Content
Behind Blue Lines —
Earlier in the spring, Democrat staffers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee let slip that they were discussing openly with the FCC the legal mechanism by which the FCC would assert control over the Internet and, specifically, Internet radio: “This isn’t just about Limbaugh or a local radio host most of us haven’t heard about,” says Democrat committee member. “The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to ...
