Re: Donna gets heard - and seen! (on Nightline, of course)

["tony schinella" <radiotony@attbi.com>]

Reagan AND the democrats in Congress passed ended the Fairness Doctrine in
1987, as well, Clinton AND the republicans in Congress passed the putrid
Telecom Bill in 1996. Both parties are to blame and most of the people
complaining about this stuff accurately mention both.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Donna gets heard - and seen! (on Nightline, of course)


> I hope Donna didn't reorganize her whole day so Nightline could get that
10
> second clip.
>
> Koppel in his opening invoked the name of President Reagan.  In effect
> blaming him for the state of things.  Reagan did push for the end of the
> so-called Fairness Doctrine and other content regulations but the none of
> the changes in the ownership rules happened on his watch.  The rule
changes
> allowing for radio duopolies happened under the First President Bush and
> President Clinton signed the 1996 Act.  Of course, none of that was
> discussed.  It is easier to tell a simply story of Republicans being
> responsible for all the changes.
>
> They also dug out the Minot, North Dakota story to illustrate the problem,
> which Scott nicely shows to have little to do with the issue at all.
>
> Diller was arguing that the networks should not own all the shows that
they
> show on the network.  He would like to see more independent producers
> produced shows for the networks.  Do any of the proposed changes have
> anything to do with that issue?
>
> All I can conclude is that Nightline was trying to illustrate what to be
> afraid of with the way they covered the story.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>