[BC] Fairness doctrine by another name? Donna's humble request

[Donna Halper]

At 10:11 AM 2/17/2009, Jason wrote:
>   52% or the populace voted for Obamma. 48% did not.
>Lib radio is NOT supported or wanted by the general american public.  It
>fails in most markets except the NW and California. There was a station in
>the DC area that failed.  Obama 1250, or 1270... or such.

I snipped part of this (and other) super-heated posts, but can we 
avoid the discussion of how "The brownshirts are back"?  I lost 
relatives in the Holocaust, and I find references to Democrats or 
liberals as Nazis to be highly offensive and worthy of 
contempt.  Michael Savage and his ilk talk like this-- but such talk 
should not be allowed on this list, and yeah I do believe in that 
sort of censorship-- we should talk civilly and exchange ideas 
courteously, or we should take the rants to another list.

The station is DC that ran progressive talk had the same problem as 
many of the stations that carried it-- horrible signal.  You couldn't 
even hear it in most parts of DC.  But the strong do survive-- Ed 
Schultz was quickly picked up by a rightie station in DC, where he 
will be the only leftie talker on the air.

Progressive talk does not "fail" nor has it been rejected by the 
general public.  I repeat:  individual talkers are doing well and 
getting numbers and making money for their sponsors.  Those talkers 
should get the chance to be heard.  Not all rightie talkers are 
getting numbers, yet I don't hear people saying that rightie talk is 
a failure.  Let's level the playing field and see who is left 
standing at the end.   I have the feeling that some rightie talkers 
would not be on the air if their companies didn't support them no 
matter how poor their ratings (some of those on Salem come to 
mind).  As for the lefties, yup, some are interesting and some are 
not, but asking stations to give a chance to both sides of the 
spectrum of ideas still doesn't seem like a Nazi-like request.