The "Fairness" Doctrine should not pass through Congress.

You're welcome :-) Moving on- If the Fairness Doctrine pertains to all news readers (which it does, it just focuses on talk radio), then the Democrats should be annoyed about the doctrine as well, because CNN, MSNBC, etc. won't be able to put out their liberal, excuse me "unbiased", news reporting without having a conservative on as well. "On public television, the split is about 80% liberal, 20% conservative. On MSNBC, 78% of their news stories were negative on McCain, about 20% negative on Obama. The outrageously right-wing Fox News (right?) split 40%/40% for the candidates. Press coverage is overwhelmingly liberal, and there no proposal whatsoever to make it "fair." The only right-leaning media is talk radio. Obviously, that has to be stamped out. The idea is to abolish it through a burden of government controls that are far better avoided by getting out of the business." I quote this from a comment made on this debate by Roy Latham. This is true. Everyone knows that the media in the US has a liberal bias. [IS THIS GOING TO BE AN ACCEPTED COMMENT?] So why do the Democrats want it so much? If it is going to take the curve out of the media, why want it? Because the Democrats are in control of Congress, the courts, and now, the presidency. The Republicans will not get nearly as much air time as the democrats and if they protest and bring them to court, they will LOSE the case because the Democrats control them. That's why the Republicans brought Fowler to office, because if the Republicans lose their talk radio, they will be consumed and its member base will shrink by half. This is not because the Republicans can't think for themselves; it's because the amount of information that has a liberal bias to it is so overwhelmingly strong, they will be brainwashed. As it is, colleges and universities indoctrinate students into the liberal point of view. It is, in part, my opinion that broadcasters should interpret news, but ONLY in the capacity as TALK SHOW HOST. The drive by media (yes, I mean you NY Times and CNN) should not just "drive by" and interpret news stories with a liberal spin. They should give BOTH SIDES of the story and not put in an opinion or spin. That is what the editorial column and guest speakers and political analysts and talk show hosts are for: to INTERPRET news with their point of view. To suggest also that Conservative talk show hosts are under the employ of political parties is an astonishingly bold comment by my opponent. If this is so and all news sources were under the employ of political parties, FOX would be slightly more Conservative and CNN and MSNBC would have billions of dollars more from the government. Why don't we just become communist and brainwash everybody with one point of view? "My opponent then suggests that conservative radio stations are the only place that a conservative audience can get the news (that is to say the news they want to hear, as opposed to the truth). He justifies this by claiming that the media has an overall liberal bias. If this were true, then he should logically support the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine as it would oblige all broadcasters to give right-wing commentators a fair crack of the whip." As I have already addressed WHY I do not support the Unfairness Doctrine, I will address another part of this statement. "My opponent then suggests that conservative radio stations are the only place that a conservative audience can get the news (that is to say the news they want to hear, as opposed to the truth)." CONSERVATIVE radio stations ARE the only place that the conservative audience can get the news (BOTH SIDES) as opposed to just the Liberal point of view. However, the talk show hosts ARE allowed to spin this because that is what they do. They are allowed to. News readers are not. The next thing my opponent will say is: "Conservative talk shows don't give both sides". Well I hate to tell you, but they do. They have Democrats call in to the show and give their points of view. However, the conservative TALK SHOW HOSTS don't have to pay attention to the other point of view because they are ENTERTAINERS. They are not news readers- they comment on the news. INSTEAD of proposing the "Fairness" Doctrine, the Democrats should support "cross-examination"- for people to watch an hour of CNN and then listen to WABC, for example. This way people get both sides of the argument and not just one. However, most Democrats won't do this because they don't want to listen to the "stupid conservatives" because they disagree on a certain issue (or at least they think they do). Therefore: Conservatives won't do this because they know that Democrats won't. I myself watch CNN of MSNBC and then watch FOX's coverage of the same story. Therefore- I encourage everyone to do the same and make sure this bill does not pass. Thank You.