Clinton, Kerry and Feinstein and many more from the left, are whining about the lack of "Liberal Talk Radio" time that is spent on the airwaves. They state there is a imbalance that is effecting their ability to reach mainstream America. Al Franken's "Air America" has gone financially defunct because of the lack of listeners. Liberal policy advocates, and mainstream listeners don't generally tune in to this type of broadcasting because it must not interest them strongly.
Conservative Talk radio is has become big business and growing annually to about 30 million listeners or more. Concervatives tend to take policy seriously and gravitate more toward the airwaves for information and forum.
Rush Limbaugh, Shaun Hannity, Larry Elder, Michael Savage, Dennis Pragar and many more have a radio following that is unparalleled in history and continuously growing!
Liberals would like to control the airwaves and require radio stations to provide equal time to liberal talk show hosts who have proven incapable of making money for the parent radio stations. listeners are generally not interested in liberal talk radio obviously.
This would mean that stations would be required to provide equal time even at a business loss. Sounds like true blue liberalism to me.
The fairness doctrine is so hypocritical considering that the media is 90% liberal. The public school systems and university's are all managed and formatted by libs. Most all network television stations and KCET. Hollywood is the hugely left leaning including Michael Moore and Disneyland...
The left will move big brother in and require the FCC to limit conservative talk Radio and force independent privately owned stations to broadcast their rhetoric at the expense of the radio station. Many may just go back to playing the top 40 instead of losing money.
The next thing will be Hate speech. Anyone who denounces the left will be a hate crime. I'm surprise conservative radio hasn't been coined as Hate Radio ...But it will.
Bob
