DePetro fired...

[radiotony]

The return of fairness doctrine is badly needed especially when you look at
the recent radio landscape. 
Take a look at the picture from AP of all the conservative talk show hosts
camped out at the White House getting free access to every administration
spokesperson under the sun to cheerlead for Republicans. 
Consider another picture from AP, of the private meeting the president held
with seven of the top radio talk show hosts held a few weeks ago in the Oval
Office in order to keep those talk hosts from straying from the reservation.

When Clinton invited talk hosts to the White House to talk about issues and
have access to administration members, every host under the sun was invited,
not just the few liberal ones on the air. 
Did that happen in this White House? No.
Did this White House allow liberal talk show hosts access to administration
spokespeople to answer something other than lofty softball questions? No. 

Newspapers and magazines don't need a fairness doctrine because anyone can
create a new newspaper or magazine to compete with other ones. 
With radio, you can't just go and create a radio station of the blue to
compete with another radio station which only has rightwing nut jobs on it. 
Well, you could do that, but you would end up in jail if you did. 

Best, 
Tony 
 
Anthony Schinella
Station Manager/Program Director
WKXL 1450, Concord, N.H. 
Award-winning news, sports, arts & community conversation
Blog: http://politizine.blogspot.com

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From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Bob Nelson
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:49 PM
To: Bill O'Neill; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: DePetro fired...

I agree with Bill...

What would be next, a Fairness Doctrine for newspapers? magazines?:
What kind of government watchdog agency would keep an eye on "fairness"?