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Newsweek's George Will on Howard Dean and the new 'Fairness Docrine'

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"I believe we need to re-regulate the media," says Howard Dean. Such illiberals argue that the paucity of liberal successes in today's radio competition—and the success of Fox News—somehow represent "market failure." That is the regularly recurring, all-purpose rationale for government intervention in markets. Market failure is defined as consumers' not buying what liberals are selling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18366765/

anybody find the irony here that this link is to MSNBC, the Imus-slayer?:)
 
>>Market failure is defined as consumers' not buying what liberals are selling.

Agreed. Tell the libs to apply that (un)Fairness Doctrine to TV as well and see if they're crazy about THAT. I want 3 more conservative news
channels..."The CBS Evening News with Rush Limbaugh"..."Today Show With Bill O'Reilly"...
"60 Minutes With Michelle Malkin". Fair is fair.
 
You forgot Sean Hannity anchoring the Hannity News Hour on PBS.
 
Well it took some doing via Google but I actually was able to find out what Mr. Dean was talking about no thanks to that right wing hack, Mr Will and the hundreds of right wing websites that have decided to quote him. Mr. Dean didn't talk about the eeevil fairness doctrine at all. He was talking about, rather vaguely, ownership caps. Here you go righties:

"While Bush eventually backed new regulations for, among others, the accounting industry in the wake of the Enron, WorldCom and other corporate scandals, his administration has rolled back environmental and workplace regulations many Democrats want restored. Bush is fighting some in his own party to loosen the rules for media ownership. "I certainly would reverse media deregulation," Dean said. "I would go back to the limitations on how many stations you can own in a given market."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59183-2003Nov18?language=printer

So Mr. Will re-interprets what he hears for his sheeple and all is well in rightiousland.
 
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