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Telperion the Silver
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TV has devolved into a cultural wasteland, imho. I can't watch mainstream TV without feeling sick after a few minutes. The Fairness Doctrine used to encourage/enforce the mass media to serve the public interest by having balanced views. Now 95% of all mass media is owned by six corporations and has almost abandoned real news in lieu of gossip used for selling stuff.

I'm in favor of examining this again. I think it might have a place once more.

Here are some links about it:
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Fairness.html

http://www.savagestupidity.com/fairness-doctrine.html

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/EM368.cfm
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Phanto
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I like it!

Good ol' censorship. The masses have the wrong opinion? Hehe. Control the TV and Radio -- get them back in line.

Thanks for telling me about this! [Smile]
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