Posted by
C-Hayes on Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:42:58 PM
Lucid liberal thinker Kirsten Powers blasts the "Fairness Doctrine":
"Liberals claim they just want 'fairness' - but if that were so, they wouldn't limit their concern just to talk radio, the one area where they've been shut out (by their own incompetence, mind you - Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, was a complete fiasco). They aren't concerned that Americans 'get both sides of the story' on abortion or embryonic-stem-cell research or abstinence training. They weren't concerned about 'fairness' when Katie Couric blamed evangelicals for the death of Matthew Shepherd."
"They protest that the airwaves belong to the American people. They're right - which is all the more reason to keep grubby government mitts off of them...." Read the whole thing.