Fairness Doctrine Flare-up

Even though I like to believe that things don't change all that quickly, nowadays they do. As a conservative talk show host, I'm deeply concerned that robust political talk radio's survival may be at stake very soon. Yesterday Senator Debbie Stabenow was on liberal talk radio's Bill Press show, calling for senate hearings into re-establishing the so-called Fairness Doctrine. Let me tell you that the establishment of requirements for a bureaucracy's definition of fairness, over allowing the market to determine what happens on the radio, would mean the end of conservative talk radio. In essence, they want us silenced.

We're one of the few remaining obstacles standing in the way of their Socialist Utopian vision.

After the spectacular failure of a very well-funded effort to seed liberal talk radio with Air America, I believe they know that putting liberals on the radio is, in general, a bad business model. It just doesn't work. They don't build an audience.

Having far less business sense than they do political ambition, liberal lawmakers want to have access to the large audiences built by compelling conservative voices. If they don't realize that this will drive the audience away, they're foolish. If they do realize it, they're evil. Liberals have always been ok denying what the public wants if it's deemed unhealthy by the bureucracy, or perhaps more precisely, unhealthy TO the bureaucracy.

I hope you'll go to battle with us on this one. You, the listener, should be deciding what's on the airwaves with your ears and wallets, not some isolated leftist bureaucrat who decides conservatism has too strong a voice.

Debbie Stabenow's US Senate Office can be reached a number of ways:

Washington, DC Office
Senator Debbie Stabenow
133 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4822
TTY: (202) 224-2066
e-mail: senator@stabenow.senate.gov

Mid-Michigan Office
Senator Debbie Stabenow
221 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 100
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 203-1760

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Detroit, MI 48226
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Grand Rapids, MI 49525
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Upper Peninsula Office
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Phone: (906) 228-8756

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Phone: (231) 929-1031