"Leonard Martin" wrote in message
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Boy, you shure don't know liberals! A major aspect of the history of
American liberalism has been the fight against censorship.

:Liberals are hardly immune from the urge to censor. Some feminists
have joined up with the Christian fundamentalists in the war on porn.
There's "Hate Speech" codes to spare delicate minority feelings. Some
civil rights orginizations want to keep books such as "Huck Finn" and
"To Kill a Mockingbird" off of school reading lists. The old fairness
doctrine had a few friends, and they were mostly Democrats. To be fair,
there are liberals on both sides of each fight.

As regards Clear
Channel running American airwaves, that's the last thing we liberals
want.
Liberals value diversity of voices and localism, which Clear Channel
is
destroying.

Was there ever much diversity in standard broadcast radio? I can't
remember a time that there wasn't only a few popular formats. Radio has
always been infested with me-too programming.


Perhaps you've gotten our dislike of right-wing talk radio, with its
content that always, ultimately, advances the economic interests of
the
wealthy station owners who choose it alone to broadcast, confused with
censorship

I haven't heard any of the talk show hosts calling for a ban on
sattelite radio. Or limiting internet access, which would help
broadcast radio a bit. Most of them thought the RIAA went way overboard
in it's fight on file sharing, even though file sharing could be seen as
a threat to established radio.

However, most of the talk show hosts talk Republican. Limbaugh has alot
of sucess with it, so the others copy.

On the other hand, NPR lobbied against the low power community radio
proposal.


. Liberals don't like to see extreme concentrations of power
anywhere, especially in the hands of wealthy people, who have shown
ever
since the 1930s that they, unlike you, know that their economic
interest
are almost invariably opposed to those of the mass of poorer people.

Some liberals aren't much bothered by extreme concentrations of power.
Plenty of 'em thought Uncle Joe Stalin was on the right track back in
the 30s. I guess Fidel still has a few friends on the looney fringe.

And
they have never been hesitant to advance those interests, whatever it
costs
the rest of us (e.g., globalism leading to endless layoffs).


Liberal Leonard


Well, just to get back to shortwave, leftists make perfectly fine
globalists. It was Maurice Strong who kicked RFPI off the University
for Peace's property.

Frank Dresser