Senate hearings about talk radio stations?

[Don62]

I could care less about a fairness doctrine. I want these blessed operators to be forced to go back to doing local news and some local programming....period.

A lot of them do. When they do local news, people change the station. How is that in the public interest?

So news isn't in the public interest?
Wall-to-wall music is?

 

[TheBigA]

So news isn't in the public interest?
Wall-to-wall music is?

If the public isn't listening, what good is it?It's a tree falling in an empty forest. Bill Paley once said the public interest is what the public is interested in.

 

[KevinFodor]

I could care less about a fairness doctrine. I want these blessed operators to be forced to go back to doing local news and some local programming....period.

With all due respects, what you want takes people, and in an economy where radio sales are down anywhere from 4 to 20%, hiring newspeople and air talent beyond a kid out of broadcasting school is a non-starter to many, not all thankfully, but many of these so-called
operators.

I don't necessarily agree with that, but that's reality today.