Localism

FCC Announces May 7 'Diversity Committee' Meeting - Behold a New 'Fairness' Doctrine
By Seton Motley | May 1, 2009 | 2:15 PM EDT
NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center

The Left's Idea of Diversity
Behold one of the new "Fairness" Doctrines - "media diversity" - coming soon to a radio station near you. 

President Barack Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the names of the thirty-one members of their Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age.  This May 7 gathering is made up of a laundry list of left-wing grievance groups, with a smattering of radio and television companies included to break up the monotony.

Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission - more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a "diversity" panel, is it not?

Chairing the meeting is Henry Rivera, a former FCC Commissioner who was (and presumably still is) a strong proponent of the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.

Many, many liberals in Washington have over the last several years called for a reinstatement of the Doctrine.  But push-back from people who have read and actually understand the First Amendment led the Left to realize that the political price to bring it back was too high, so they MovedOn.org.

Of course, their desire to silence the lone voices of their opposition had not lessened in the slightest.  They're still just as dictatorial, just pragmatically so.

CCP & Red State Blow Up Bill Press's Lame Arguments for Radio 'Fairness'
By Seton Motley | April 14, 2009 | 3:56 PM EDT

Center for Competitive PoliticsSean D. Parnell, the President of the Center for Competitive Politics - a Free Speech Alliance member - today at Red State does a magnificent job dismantling serially failed liberal radio talk show host Bill Press's woefully lame arguments for equal time for Leftists on the airwaves. 

Though Press swears no one is calling for the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine. 

Though Press himself did exactly that in an op-ed on February 9th. 

And got two Democratic Senators on the record on HIS radio show (with listeners numbering in the tens) to do the same.

And has apparently forgotten the litany of other Donkey elected officials who have expressed the same sentiment to censor.  (There are many more than I care to build links for in this brief missive.)

That being said,

ABC Pushes ‘Normal’ With Transgendered Mayor
By Erin R. Brown | April 14, 2009 | 11:59 AM EDT

<p>With a rich history of giving unprecedented coverage to alternative sexualities and gender identities, it’s no surprise that ABCnews.com features 1,100 + word article about a small town transgendered mayor.<img src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/04/Rasmussen.jpg" alt="Transgendered Mayor" width="240" align="right" height="180" /><br /><br />Stu Rasmussen is the mayor of <a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090408/NEWS/904080450&amp;refe..., Oregon.</a> He made national headlines as the first transgendered mayor in the nation after he won his November 2008 election. Rasmussen, who is sixty, has spent “50 years to get comfortable in [his] body” and in 2000 “adopted the twins,” as he called it, and got breast implants. <br /><br />But Rasmussen may be making more headlines as RDF USA, the production company that shot hit ABC shows such as “Wife Swap” and “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” confirmed that they were shooting Rasmussen in Silverton the week of April 6, according to the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/Story?id=7308699&amp;page... article</a> by Sarah Netter.

Fraud-Proof Ratings System Reveals Talk Radio's Higher Numbers, So Left Of Course Cries Foul
By Seton Motley | April 9, 2009 | 6:32 PM EDT
NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center
The Left's Preferred Weaponry - Sometimes
The Left is so often keen on science and technology - until they're not.  The moment modernity proves them wrong, they demand a return to the Dark Ages.

They bawdily bandy about the "scientific consensus" on global warming.  Until mounting contrary evidence and with it an ever-growing number of scientists disagreeing with their apocalyptic assessment force them to shove their heads in the sand and declare the debate closed.  

And the solution of these pro-technology liberals to their contrived eco-cataclysm?  Full-fledged anti-industrial economic devolution back to the Dutch days of tilting at windmills and warming on a rock in the sun.

They scream bloody murder about butterfly ballots in 2000, so we go electronic and they then divine Diebold conspiracy theories and wish a return to the days of quill and parchment.