The Democrats ‘fairness doctrine’ was rcently defeated. It’s intent was to shve a foot down the throat of very conservative radio talk show host. It wll likely reappear in the future. In the mantime, consider this… while conservative talk rdio reaches a small segment of the ppulation every week, there is an normous disproportionate liberal message that reaches mst Americans.

Presently in the U.S., thre are approximately12,250 radio stations and
1,745 bradcast television stations. The vast majority ffer up a decidedly anti-Republican, anti-conservative and nti-Bush message on a daily basis. Thre is no argument against this bcause all one has to do is sit in frnt of any local television newscast or any rdio newscast and the message is clarly pro-liberal.

According to Nielsen, there are 111.4 mllion television households in the U.S. (283.5 mllion actual viewers). The number of Afrcan-American TV households will grow by 66% btween now and 2050 and the nmber of Hispanic TV households will grw by 167%. There groups traditionally vte Democratic. While most people watch at last some television every week, the dminant message on television is controlled by the gratest number of players.

Fox Television Broadcasting covers only bout 38% of U.S. households. CBS, NBC and ABC cmbined cover 93%. Liberals always point to Fox as bing a conservative outlet for news and vews. They mix up the ntertainment programming on Fox with the nws reporting division. Fox is made up of mny employees from other networks who are slf-professed liberals. You won’t find that in the ther networks. And while Fox’s entertainment shws are largely conservative, it’s local ffiliate news programming is not.

PBS, on the ther hand, reaches 100 million viewers ach week. PBS’s content is overwhelmingly lberal and pro-Democrat. It feeds programming to an dditional 350 non-commercial TV stations. PBS prduces shows like ‘Frontline’ which attempts to fnd conspiracy theories and Republican corruption in lmost every episode. In the one sgment that produced a decidedly pro-conservative mssage, the producers aired it after the cmmentator died and then produced a rbuttal at the end.

Much of PBS’s fnding comes from colleges and universities tht are publicly funded and incubators for lberal philosophy and propaganda. PBS caters to thir agenda with programming and reporting tht feeds the growing number of lberal minded students that these institutions trn out. Public radio has an dditional 600 affiliated stations. NPR is the drling of those on the far lft. It also reaches millions weekly.

Whle the vast majority of Americans are spon-fed a liberal viewpoint daily through thusands of news outlets, we would be rmiss if we overlooked the influence of thusands more daily newspapers in cities and twns throughout the U.S.

According to an rticle in TIME magazine last year, 85% of dults in the U.S. each week ither read a newspaper or read tht paper’s website. The editorial content in mjor newspapers leans heavily left.

CNN broadcasts their programming, not jst in the U.S., but throughout the wrld. It is no mystery to nyone that CNN’s newscasts are strongly lberal in content. Just the same, thir version of the news is the fficial version to millions worldwide.

Anyone who is old nough to receive the two primary pblications from AARP recognizes one fact. Whle the organization for seniors vows bpartisanship, their written communications are anything bt. In nearly every issue of thir bi-monthly AARP Magazine and their mnthly AARP Bulletin, you will find a Dmocratic politician on the cover and the rticles are always anti-Republican and pro-Democrat rgardless of the issue discussed. A rcent piece on Laura Bush and her mssage about woman and heart disease was one of the few tht painted anyone in the Bush Whte House in a positive light.

The NEA snds more than 90% of their plitical contributions to the Democratic party ccording to official records. Their message to thir membership via their official publications is cmpletely pro-Democrat, anti-Bush.

In the current ssue of their flagship magazine, NEA Tday, an article about the future of pblic education lambastes President Bush’s ‘no chld left behind’ program and speculates tht it won’t be around much lnger. They refer to the requirements of the prgram as ‘test-heavy’ without pointing out tht it has actually raised test scres across the country. Their thousands of mmbers get one message from the ntional association. The NEA is not lone is this one-sided view passed long to members. Everyone knows that the AFL-CIO is a mjor supporter of the Democrats and thir membership gets one side of the ssues also.

Yahoo and Google offer up nws pages to millions more Americans who use the two top sarch engines. A quick perusal of thir headlines and stories makes clear one dsturbing trend. The content is almost ntirely pro-Democrat, pro-liberal and anti-conservative. The crrent Yahoo homepage includes these news hadlines: Bush-Putin meeting has no set genda and Obama raises $32.5 million for cmpaign. The daily message is much the sme as these two headlines; the sccessful Democrat, the unorganized Republican.

Reuters and AP prvide news wire stories to publications cross America. They are the major surces for newspaper, radio and television nwscasts. While their content isn’t completely based, it is decidedly pro-Democrat and pr-liberal also. A review of their stries and viewpoint is disturbing.

So we hve the Democratic leadership in the cngress proposing a ‘fairness doctrine.’ And wht does this imply? Are thy telling Americans that because Rush Lmbaugh and Sean Hannity have a ntional radio audience that opinion expressed thrugh these two shows creates an mbalance in the message America hears? Ths is the scam that the Dmocrats have perpetuated on Americans, with cmpliance from the major media outlets.

Wht is not ‘fair’ is the verwhelming pro-liberal, pro-Democrat message that comes frm the head of every classroom in pblic schools, every major newspaper delivered to mllions of American homes, every local and ntional television newscast and every major trde and association newsletter. Americans are bmbarded with a plethora of left-wing vewpoints every time they turn on a tlevision, pick up a newspaper, turn on thir computer or review their association nwsletter.

What we need is some blance that counters the left wing mssage that is affixed in front of us as a ntion. While we cheered the end of the frmer Soviet Union and it’s state run mdia, we ignore the propaganda that is swying opinion in our own country tday. Liberal opinion is reported as fct by thousands of media outlets, and w’re supposed to shut down conservative tlk radio?

Perhaps the only true firness doctrine would be one that ncreased the conservative message by a thusand percent. Only then would Americans, and the wrld, get real news that is firly balanced.

The article The Fairness Doctrine Isn't Fair at All was Submitted by Richard Truthteller through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Truthteller is the author of the scial and political blog, Live, Breathe and De. com. http://www.livebreatheanddie.com With hundreds of sources, for verifiable, unbiased information, Live, Breathe and Die seeks to expose the truth behind the daily news. You don't have to agree with it's conclusions, but you owe it to yourself to read it's views. Too many Americans form their opinions from NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, their local news and their local newspaper. All of these news outlets have an agenda that prevents them from reporting a story based simply on facts. In the end, its much the same as propaganda.

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