Liberal Talk Radio Host: I Want The Fairness Doctrine So That I Can Make Money

• February 18, 2009

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.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Freedom Of Speech, Politics

http://Array 2Hotel9

Jerry! You nail it, bro.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Is it “fair” that public radio and TV live off of taxpayers while other broadcasters have to earn a taxable profit?
Spartacus

What guarantee does Press see in a fairness doctrine that his show would be purchased for broadcast? The biggest gainers would seem to be liberal talk stations since they would gain listeners by having been mandated to provide air time for people like Rush, Hannity, Beck, McConnell, etc.
docdave

Hot off the press. From Hot Air another example of the success of liberal radio.

Libtalk network Nova M Radio has been shut down, according to the attorney for Randi Rhodes, Robert V Gaulin of New York. …
Hannitized

If the Fairness Doctrine is applied to Talk Radio, why can’t it later be applied to the MSM, which is overwhelmingly Leftard?

And it should apply there as well. I say get the Chris Matthews off the air as much as Oreilly. Get Hannity off and get Olberman off.

We need more Brit Hume’s and more Tim Russell’s.
Spartacus

Proof on February 17, 2009 at 04:58 pm

So you’re saying Lib talk is a micro market venture?
Spartacus

If broadcasters are artificially forced out of optimum market conditions for selecting their talent, the next best way to maximize their profits would be to add value by “shopping local”.

Or contact their buddies in D.C. for a heapin’ helpin’ of those crazy tax payers dollars!
Spartacus

There’ll be a lot of C/W,

Morse code? Oh, country & western. HEH, Morse code would probably draw more listeners than lib talk!
SigFan

I don’t believe for a minute that this is about “fairness”. This is purely a play to silence opposition – plain and simple. If the people do not hear the drumbeat yet, they will soon.
Spartacus

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my guess is local markets would turn once again to local talent who could give a local slant to current events.

A week or so ago local WOWO was discussing that very matter. Prior to the lifting of the previous “fairness doctrine” their records proved that during the hours they broadcast shows from the “liberal” perspective the audience changed stations, only after returning to the “conservative” perspective did the numbers increase a bit until the following day when the cycle repeated. I’m thinking that the bottom line is most liberals are out for personal gain, what can benefit them most during this fleeting moment, they don’t like hearing that other feel the same way. The more the less merry they may be, you know, selfishness.
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Hmmmm.

If the Fairness Doctrine is applied to Talk Radio, why can’t it later be applied to the MSM, which is overwhelmingly Leftard?

What the Left would hope to use to wipe out the last bastion of truth, might be turned against them to pry open the television airwaves to get Rush, Ann Coulter, Ollie North, and their kindred souls back on the airwaves, only this time, cheek and jowl juxtaposed against Chris Matthews and the View.

Airwaves are pervasively regulated, satisfying the requirement of government involvement.

The Fairness Doctrine sits squarely in the crosshairs of Speech Content, and thus exactly what the Constitution forbids.

With the proper funding and legal team, the Fairness Doctrine, even if passed, could blow up in the faces of the Leftist power grubbers.

If not, then there are the Four Boxes of Freedom:

- Ballot Box

- Jury Box

- Soap Box and the…

[who knows the fourth????]
R4Freedom

Kevin,

It is not fair and if their were to be a “Fairness Doctrine” it should apply on to public radio. Currently public radio is 100% liberal bias.
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Hint: Google is your friend.
sayanything-5371

[who knows the fourth????]

I would say Ammunition Box.
Mickey

Liberals will kill talk radio just like they are killing the global economy
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Conservative: If you give a man a fish, you feed him for one night. If you teach a man to fish, he feeds himself every night.

Liberal: If you give a man a fish, he owes you once. If you teach a man to fish, he won’t need you any more.

Billie Bob: Iffn you go fishin with dynamite, y’all don’t need to go fishin again for a week.
Lioncourt

The justification for the Fairness Doctrine is because they are licensed the public airways without being charged. Personally I say Fuck the Fairness Doctrine. Let’s just charge them to use the public airways.
HG

They should include the fairness doctrine in their stimulus program. After all, more spending on products the market doesn’t want will grow the economy. Just ask any democrat.
Hoss

Come on Fairness Doctrine: because when our turn comes back around there will be some fairness issues to address in the classrooms, in print media, and on the televised airwaves. All use federal resources to deliver their product, and it’s about time they quit being so one-sided.

Press is a typical leftist: he can’t compete so he wants to use the force of government to drag everything down. God, the lefties are some sorry bitches.
isit2012yet?

Wants to be a parasite on the body of conservative talk radio because he cannot make money on his own

Typical liberal blood sucker…..
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

So you’re saying Lib talk is a micro market venture?

Essentially. If broadcasters are artificially forced out of optimum market conditions for selecting their talent, the next best way to maximize their profits would be to add value by “shopping local”.
Bill might even find himself making less money if some stations were forced into less profitable formats, other than talk radio. It’s a supply vs. demand thing he probably wouldn’t understand! Again, any time you use a static model to understand market forces, you generally get it wrong.
Jerry in Detroit

I think the first question is will the unfairness doctrine be anything more than another sinecure for bureaucrats. If the actually try to do something, one could easily foresee their inboxes filling up with complaints about the paleo-media.
Pedro

Liberal talk radio would not need the “Unfairness Doctrine” if they told the truth about things. Why are they so afraid of the truth? Lying about things will catch up with you and make you a bigger fool than your thought. Just ask Al Franken over in Minnesooota.
2Hotel9

Hell, I’ll even make it easier!
T H

I just read something showing that the FD is going to hit Christian radio hard because of its content. Well, let’s be “fair” with this. I think that they need to look at rap stations for their content. I’m sick of flipping through the channels and hearing about shoty licking a “lollypop”. Listen, I’m not for the FD at all. I don’t really even care of the brain numbing rap stations, but they need to understand that we are not stupid out here. We know why the libs are doing this. Check out South Korea!
docdave

The ‘fairness doctrine’ could kill all talk radio rather than elevate liberal talk radio. Either way the libs win.
2Hotel9

Here is a link, gang. Check it out, it is rather easy to find the station broadcasting what you want to hear, took me all of 4 minutes. Why are leftards incapable/unwilling to do this?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

What guarantee does Press see in a fairness doctrine that his show would be purchased for broadcast?

That’s an excellent point! One of the things that Rush did, in syndication, was to displace many local, small time talk hosts with a more marketable and profitable one.
Lacking a national Liberal (and profitable) alternative to Rush, my guess is local markets would turn once again to local talent who could give a local slant to current events.

Rush would not necessarily have the same income to divide, if he is on fewer hours, since there would be fewer advertisers to foot the bill. That’s one of the problems with liberals who general use a static model to look at the world and the economy.
Or, if he worked the same hours, there’s nothing to say that stations giving equal time to a liberal counterpart would draw the same ad revenues (they wouldn’t) or receive equal compensation. After all…Fox News doesn’t split the ad revenue from, say, American Idol.
bill-tb

Can anyone imagine anyone sitting around all day and recording what the libtard channels have to say? Maybe that’s why the libtards at Media Matters sticks with Limbaugh and other conservatives.

No wonder they shut off the lights. No more slum neighborhood charities to rob.
Spartacus

^ clarified.
The more there are the less merry they may be, you know, selfishness.
R4Freedom

Here’s the bottom line. Republican talk show host do so well in the ratings because intelligent well rounded people had rather no whats going on in America than listen to hip-hop or rap music while on their way to and from work. Liberals do not fair well in the ratings because most dems/liberals aren’t really interested in the News or America because besides from enjoying rap and hip hop music they really don’t understand the issues.
docdave

If liberal talk shows were doing well, the libs would not be pushing the fair doctrine.
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Would NPR and PBS comply with a fairness doctrine?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Or contact their buddies in D.C. for a heapin’ helpin’ of those crazy tax payers dollars!

I think there are too many AM stations out there for even The Oneâ„¢ to bail out profitably. There’ll be a lot of C/W, Oldies and Musica en Espanol before there’ll be a network of Liberal Talk shows to write home to mother about!
2Hotel9

Oh, don’t fool yourself! The leftards will immediately screech “Separation of church and State” and the debate,,,will be,,,,over! The Goreacle has spoken, and HIS word covers all subjects. Just listen to the Son of Goreacle, Barri The Messiahish. HE will put you in your place, peon.
AR-15

[who knows the fourth???

30 round detachable BOX magazine?
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If you give a man a fish, you feed him for one night. If you teach a man to fish, he sits in a boat and drinks beer all day.

A bad day fishing is better than any good day at work.
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You all are not getting it. VERY not getting it. Look at Dino and you might.

Liberals are self-righteous delusional arrogant and self-absorbed to varying degrees. They all view their ideas not as left versus right. They use those terms only insincerely and because everyone else already does. In reality, they view themselves as the center, as normal. No matter how far left you go, they view themselves as the center. Carter and Obama view themselves as normal, the center. They view Clinton as conservative. Reagan is viewed as a Nazi.

Their idea of fairness is themselves, no matter how far left, being the center and the rightful majority voice in all media, and those farther left and those at all on the right as being minority voices to be given a few minutes, a few web pages, a few controlled places of limited access.

Liberals of course have no honor and are backstabbing schismatic twats. As we’ve seen, naively somewhat controlled liberals like the Clintons are overtaken by even more leftist opportunists, and they by even more. It escalates and moves further and further left, and no matter how far off the normality and common sense and rationality map they are to the left, they view themselves always as right, normal, the center.

If their fairness doctrine gets reinstated now, and it doesn’t get eliminated by the courts, you can guarantee leftist indoctrination will take on a whole new life. Whoever ultimately seizes power will decide the center and that will be very far left of Hillary. We really do not want a world in which Hillary Clinton is considered by the people enforcing the “fairness doctrine” to be a voice of conservatism but that’s exactly where this goes.
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You’d think they’d have to, as would NBC and CBS, etc.

But the thing is: Who gets to decide on the content? What happens if the FCC decides that AM1100 in Fargo has to balance out Scott Hennen and Rush and Hannity and Levine with Ed Schultz and Bill Press, but NPR has to balance out their liberal programming with…Andrew Sullivan?

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