Talk Radio's Last Stand?

Leading hard-right conservatives, led by their talk radio "shock jock" shock troops, have been worrying aloud about the supposed return of the long-defunct Fairness Doctrine ever since their stunning success last year in defeating bi-partisan immigration reform. The latest salvo is the Newsmax report, headlined "Battle for Talk Radio: Powerful Foes Want to End the Gabfest," which cleverly combines the usual talk radio tropes of pugnacity and victimization. Full Story »

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Mark Siet
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by Mark Siet - Oct. 1, 2008

This sounds more like a made up story since the journalist has a book to plug. While I agree that the fairness doctrine may be a good thing to ressurect I think that we really don't get more than innuendo in this article and speculation. More meat would have been better.

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