Liberal Talk Radio Host: I Want The Fairness Doctrine So That I Can Make Money
I’ve been arguing for a while now that, aside from wanting to silence influential talkers like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, the fairness doctrine is also about rent-seeking from liberal talk radio hosts who can’t hack it in a free market.
But I never quite expected one of them to come right out and say as much. Here’s Bill Press basically saying that he’d like his show to be subsidized by the success of shows people actually listen to.
I know why I’m interested in it because I get up every morning at 3:45, I do three hours of talk radio every day from six to nine, that’s my life, it’s my business, I want to make money at it, and I want to be heard.
You know, I’d like to make a living oiling up bikini models, but I’m not going to ask the government to implement a law requiring modeling agencies to fill a certain number of oil-boy jobs with hefty, bearded part-time bloggers.
