Brian Oakley wrote:
"RFI-EMI-GUY" wrote in message
g.com...
wrote:
A shocking decision has been handed down by the National Public Radio
board.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/De...aspx?id=510936
There is no shortage of Christian programming in most markets. In fact
most of the spectrum that was made available by changes to translator
rules, changes to low power education rules and the provision of new
low power broadcast stations resulted in much of the lower end of the
dial being "cluttered" with religious broadcasters where you once
would hear college or high school stations or translator outputs in
rural markets. I think NPR is simply reinforcing what had been the
original intent of the charter.
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Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©
"Use only Genuine Interocitor Parts" Tom Servo ;-P
So what is your opinion as to why the left wants the "fairness doctrine"
reinstated? You think its so they can get equal air time? Or do you
believe they want to set up low power FM stations to air their point of
view?
They dont need to do that. They already have the major media in their
pocket, TV and print. The only thing they dont control is talk radio.
But they are going to control it. They wont even have to bring in the
"fairness doctrine" to do it. All they need to do, which is being
bounced around at the moment, is to simply change the license renewal
time from 8 yrs to 1 yr, and having someone, perhaps folks like ACORN,
bring allegations of not being beneficial to the community. Thats all
it takes to yank the license. So when you put that threat over a radio
station owner, he either changes his content or closes his station. He
cant afford to close his station, so guess what, the "fairness doctrine"
is in effect implemented. And these arent on the local low power FM
stations. These will be the high power regional stations, even the AM
powerhouses. So your argument of all these low power religious stations
"cluttering" up the lower FM band is pretty much irrelavant. No one
listens to that end of the dial much. NPR is probably one of the only
stations out there that is listened to because liberals dont have much
else to listen to, mainly because stations that run programs like Air
America cant keep advertizers. Capitalists are not going to fund
programming that is communist in nature.
B
Frankly I don't really give a SH**T about what you are saying. I listen
to the FM for music and when I hear a bunch of religious cranks or
wingers taking up valuable air time that could be used to play the
Doors, Zappa or the Dead Kennedy's, I get pretty much ticked off. Thank
you...
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Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©
"Use only Genuine Interocitor Parts" Tom Servo ;-P