Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:22:45 PM
So says a lib commentor in response to this post I put up earlier today:
Liberal Talk Radio - A List.
She posted this in response:
Beware. This is NOT about shutting up or "balancing" the unbalanceable Limbaugh or Bill-O. It's about accessing the airwaves - opening them up to more liberal shows. The airwaves ARE PUBLICLY OWNED. They are NOT the exclusive domain of the rightwing propagandists. Leave this argument to the TH folks and you've got a conspiracy against rightwing talk. Not so.
The issue is about the rightwing glutting the airwaves to the point that any one area of the country is flooded with rightwing talk, but only the rare liberal talk show. Balance the airwaves of right and left and you've got a deal worth fighting for.
The reason the rightwing noise machine is conflating this issue of balance on the airwaves with muzzling the Limbaughs of talk radio is because they are TERRIFIED of the fact that if more people have access to liberal talk radio on the airwaves in any given market, more people will come to see other viewpoints that are out there. The same reasoning as they have with voting: the more voters that are registered, the more the Democratic party wins. It's a known fact.
Seriously, turn on your radio and go up and down the AM dial. How many rightwing talk shows do you hear as opposed to leftwing? Is it balanced? In my market - in a blue state, mind you - I can't get ONE liberal talk show to come in clearly, but I have access to at least 5 rightwingnuts blabbing in unison up and down the dial.
She doesn't realize she makes my point for me. She's exactly right, it's not about "fairness" or "balance", it's about access and shutting down conservatives.
However, she takes the tac that people don't have access to "alternatives points of view."
She doesn't understand about the market. You can't find liberals jabbering all over the airwaves because people don't want to listen to it!
People want conservatives, they don't want libs.
Wake up kimberlyric, it's not a conspiracy of the right we're talking about.
It's the tyranny of the left.