Former Diller Exec To Head Up FCC

COMMENTS (3)

• Let’s hope the Obama FCC not only holds Big Media’s feet to the fire but cuts them off at the knees so some independent toes can get a little traction.

  Comment by Santayana — Tuesday March 3, 2009 @ 6:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yeah, by all means let’s champion a guy who’s going to bypass the Fairness Doctrine (now that everybody knows the name and what it entails, the Dems can’t use it) and get at talk radio through localism and minority ownership. By all means let’s celebrate a guy who’s going to limit speech in America, not enlarge it (and if you think that opinion just comes from me, the FCC itself, in its own final evaluation of the Fairness Doctrine, said it wound up limiting speech).

  Localism is just another Fairness Doctrine in sheep’s clothing, and minority ownership is another government subsidy, paid for by our taxes, for stations that will eliminate the content already proven popular with listeners. How sad — and scary — is it that a political party has to force people to listen to “their side,” when that kind of radio has been outright rejected, time and time again, in the open market? If the MM was right, and the vast majority of Americans were left-leaning liberals, scornful of Bush and conservatives, than Air America would still be on today, trouncing Rush’s numbers. Pathetic. But then again, the “open market” is dead in Obamaland.

  Comment by David — Thursday March 5, 2009 @ 8:43am PST  Reply to this post

• Bill Moyers may soon express his view on President Obama’s choice? Hopefully he’s still paying attention to who’s heading the FCC. Remember, it was he who sounded the alarm when the FCC first started relaxing its rules to allow smaller, independent, local, stations to be eaten up by the majors.

  Comment by Renee Aubry — Friday March 6, 2009 @ 11:19am PST  Reply to this post