[BC] Re: Fairness doctrine by another name? aka censorship?

[Glen Kippel]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Jason R. <jyrussell at academicplanet.com>wrote:

> NO broadcast medium has the time or resources to try to represent
> every viewpoint that may possibly arise from every and any given news
> item... so they just put them out with NO insight, and you get bad,
> ineffective radio.
>
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Yeah, I've been in the business over 48 years now and I remember when "talk
radio" meant Don McNeil's Breakfast Club and the Arthur Godfrey Show.
Stations just didn't want to get involved in "controversial" programming so
there wasn't any.  OK, so there were some exceptions like Joe Pyne.  And
that guy in Denver (I've forgotten the name) who was assassinated.  That
sort of thing also puts a damper on free speech.  But for the most part,,
programming was, as another here has stated, pure pabulum.