Minority Broadcasters Seek Bailout
Managing Editor's Note: What follows was originally published at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog on July 20, 2009. Well if we can spend millions to protect the salt marsh mouse in San Francisco Bay, we can surely shell out billions to bail out minority broadcasters. It’s good for the economy and after all Congress is on record as saying it needs to save our nation’s newspapers, too. So,…
Internal Friction at MSNBC? Joe Scarborough Cancels Appearance on Ed S
You could see this one coming."Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough was due to appear on MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz's "The Ed Show" on Tuesday, in apparent reciprocity after Schultz was on "Morning Joe" that day.But Scarborough canceled his appearance, Schultz told a caller to his radio show Tuesday, with Schultz saying he wasn't sure why.Here's how Schultz described it after initially speaking…
MRC's Bozell: Where Does FCC Chairman Nominee Genachowski Stand On 'Fa
Concerned that “we know little or nothing” of President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Media Research Center President (MRC) Brent Bozell sent an open letter on June 15 to the Senate Commerce Committee urging the members to thoroughly query Julius Genachowski. The panel, headed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) , will hold hearings today on Genachowski’s…
Limbaugh: Obama's Control of Banks a 'Stealth Way' to Impose Fairness
Some in the liberal media establishment have decried discussion of the Fairness Doctrine, claiming the Obama administration's publicly saying it wouldn't pursue it removed the threat. However, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh theorized that President Obama may have another method to restrict content over the airwaves in mind. In an interview on Sean Hannity's June 4 Fox News…
400,000 Petition Pelosi, Reid for Vote on Broadcaster Freedom Act
Today the Media Research Center’s Free Speech Alliance (FSA) will deliver nearly 400,000 petitions – combined with thousands of calls and faxes - to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to allow a full, fair stand-alone floor vote on the Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA)."Free speech on the radio airwaves remains in peril so long as the FCC is just a 3-2 vote…
Citing 'Diversity,' Obama Admin Sides with Leftist Grievance Group and
The Upside Down Ratings World of NABOB On April 9 we wrote of an asinine assertion made about the new Arbitron radio ratings system by soon to be transferred Democratic Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Well now President Barack Obama has put the imprimatur of his FCC and Administration on Adelstein's addled notion.…
Detroit Free Press: Obama Ushers in Era of Oppression of Free Speech
Looks like it is just starting to dawn on some lefties that Obama is ushering in an era of oppression of free speech. So it seems for Laura Varon Brown of the Detroit Free Press, at least. Oh, she isn't saying that Obama himself is trampling on free speech, but she is starting to understand that the left's penchant for political correctness is serving the function as a sort of self-imposed…
FCC Announces May 7 'Diversity Committee' Meeting - Behold a New 'Fair
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…
Today Show Feature: 'There's No Such Thing as Virginity
Jessica Valenti, founder of the vaguely pornographic sounding Feministing.com, has decided that there is no such thing as virginity in America's young girls and the Today Show is entirely pleased with itself to give her a national TV venue from which to say so. Never mind how silly it all sounds. On April 23 Valenti and Today pushed the idea that sexually active girls should not be thought of as…
Fraud-Proof Ratings System Reveals Talk Radio's Higher Numbers, So Lef
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…
