"Remember that imaginary NRA special ABC could do against the NRA. It’s not imaginary. On Monday Night, before Monday Night Football, ABC will be doing a one-hour special on the NRA’s political action in elections. It wasn’t going to be a fair program to begin with. With the new rules, you can bet it’ll be a lot worse.
"And don’t be surprised if Dennis Miller’s editorializing about the evils of guns and Republicans at halftime..."
=====================================
Time we ALL called our local stations...
woodit
======================================
Jewish World Review Oct. 6, 2000 / 7 Tishrei, 5761
Debbie Schlussel
Fairness
It's official, TV stations no longer have to be "fair" or "balanced"
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IMAGINE your local TV station endorses Al Gore for President, and then engages in non-stop attacks on George W. Bush’s character, alleging that he may have used drugs and is less than intelligent. Imagine ABC endorsing strict gun control and running a one-hour special attacking Charlton Heston’s character and describing the NRA as a bunch of rednecks. Imagine 24 hours of Hillary Headline News on CNN.
Well, stop imagining. Because, as of Wednesday, any of this stuff could happen, courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
You know the liberal media? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It’s about to get a lot worse.
According to Variety, on Wednesday, the FCC voted 3-2 to lift its political editorial and personal attack rules for the next 60 days. This leaves TV and radio outlets free to endorse candidates, run political editorials, and make character attacks on candidates, without providing free airtime to the other side, a requirement of the Doctrine.
And while the FCC is lifting "political editorial and personal attack rules" for only 60 days, these next 60 days are crucial to candidates in tight races, as they make their final push to the polls.
Candidates like George W. Bush. Candidates like Rick Lazio. Republican candidates trying to hold on to control of Congress. Candidates the liberal media despise. Candidates the media would love to attack, ad hominem, without allowing a response. Right before the election.
And this could become permanent, for all future elections to come.
The FCC lifted rules requiring equal time, under pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). Both have repeatedly challenged the "political editorial and personal attack rules" in the courts, arguing that it violates their First Amendment rights. And they’ve repeatedly lost, including at the Supreme Court level.
That’s because we, the public, finance the airwaves on which these liberal broadcasters spew their leftist views, on which they show their trashy programming. They can exercise their free speech any day, any time, but not on airwaves that are owned and provided by us. Until now.
Joel Cheatwood, VP of news for CBS TV stations, and Jay Ireland, President of NBC television stations division, tell Variety that they doubt TV outlets will launch unfair attacks because “most broadcasters feel an inherent need to be fair.” Yeah, right. And Bill Clinton “did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
Think Disney Chief Michael Eisner -- a top contributor to Clinton and Gore -- won’t take full advantage of these rules to return his buddies to the White House for another 8 years? Ditto for USA Network chief Barry Diller. And Chaim Saban, head honcho of FOX Kids Network, and a huge Gore fundraiser.
We already see the unfairness and inequity in coverage of Republicans, especially conservatives, on CNNABCCBSNBC, etc. And unleashing a wild dog won’t make him bite less. It has the opposite effect. Until now, there’s, at least, been some semblance of “fairness” and “objectivity.” The key word being, “semblance.”
But even with that, Bush can do no right. He’s an ignorant, spoiled rich kid, with no experience, running on his daddy’s name, according to slanted media portrayals. Lazio’s an arrogant, young punk, who violated a First Lady’s space. And Gore’s a competent, experienced, smart Vietnam Vet from a farm in Carthage, Tennessee, they tell us. Hillary’s a talented, smart lawyer, who’s devoted her life to America’s children, and is a victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Of course, reality elucidates the exact opposite of all of these liberal media narratives. And that’s with equal time rules intact. So, imagine the media propaganda in the next 60 days, without even that.
Liberal Dennis Miller on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” comparing a failed field goal attempt to George W. Bush’s tax plan, or a screwed up play to alleged screwed up integrity of conservative candidates. Or cartoons on FOX Kids telling kids about those big, bad Republicans who want to destroy the environment so their pet dog dies. Or WWF’s “The Rock” telling mindless wrestling viewers on TNN and MTV that Republicans in Congress are “jabronis” (his favorite epithet).
It’s no joke. It’s the FCC’s new reality. And it’s a nightmare.
But we can stop it. The FCC is requiring broadcasters to keep records on how many complaints they receive during the next 60 days, which they must report to the FCC. Assuming they keep honest records –a big assumption -- we owe it to ourselves and the future of sane, fair elections to call, write, or e-mail local and national broadcast outlets when they abuse the new, relaxed rules. If not, you can bet the rules will become permanent, and liberals will win more elections.
Remember that imaginary NRA special ABC could do against the NRA. It’s not imaginary. On Monday Night, before Monday Night Football, ABC will be doing a one-hour special on the NRA’s political action in elections. It wasn’t going to be a fair program to begin with. With the new rules, you can bet it’ll be a lot worse.
And don’t be surprised if Dennis Miller’s editorializing about the evils of guns and Republicans at halftime.
JWR contributor Debbie Schlussel is a Detroit-based commentator, attorney, and sports and entertainment agent. While she reads all of her mail, she regrets she cannot respond to each letter. Send your comments to her by clicking here.
10/03/00: Hillary Lesbian Ads, NRA Infomercials, & Other Stuff You Won’t See on TV
09/29/00: AlGore’s misogynist hate music
09/26/00: Ask Oprah/Regis: “Women’s” Vote Debases Presidency
09/22/00: Gun Control, Nike Slasher Ads, and Other Politically Correct Olympic Tales
09/19/00: Al Sharpton: Real Home of the Whopper
09/15/00: Pedophilia good, religion, bad
09/05/00: Political ADL Should Lose its Tax-Exempt Status
08/29/00: Time for Racist, Sexist WNBA & Other Feminist Girlie Sports Sideshows to Go
08/25/00: Will the Real Boston Globe Plagiarist Please Stand Up?
08/25/00: Cathy Young Doth Protest Too Much, But Facts are Facts
08/22/00: Karenna: Gore Chicklet Doesn't Represent My Generation
08/18/00: NBC: National Kennedy Channel
08/15/00: Give Him an Oscar: Flip-floppin' Lieberman parties with "Jenny Jones" producer
08/11/00: Confessions of An Orthodox Jewish Former Candidate: Why I Won't Vote for Lieberman
08/07/00: Forget About Merit: W's GOP Disses Affirmative Action Foes
08/01/00: What's an Obscene Guy Like You Doing in a Place Like This?: WWF's "The Rock" at the GOP Convention
07/28/00: The Naked Truth: Democrats Pose for Playboy
07/25/00: What Dubyah should have known about his would-be veep
07/21/00: Scouting-out political correctness
07/18/00: When 'Big Brother' is a black supremacist
07/14/00: Ted Kennedy's Hate Crime
07/11/00: Sleeping With the Enemy: Bush Health Care Advisor, Congressman are GOP's Monica, Bill
07/07/00: Survivor: Politically Correct Darwinism
07/05/00: Dummies Across America
06/29/00: Rio Ramirez: Cuban Olympic Diving Defector's What Elian Could've Been
06/26/00: Too Bad it's Miller Time: MNF Pass Rush Over Ratings is Huge Fumble
06/23/00: PETA's McCruel Child Abuse
06/20/00: Clinton's my father, too
06/16/00: Hillary Pimps the Sex Trade
06/13/00: 'Musical' mind molesters
06/08/00: Bigoted and Rich: Corzine's election belies Dems' phony image
06/06/00: Slumming it: My Night on Slumlord Al's "Farm"
06/02/00: Hillary Myths and Facts: What Lazio Must Make Every Voter Know
05/31/00: Welcome to Equality, Babe: Female "Pro" Athletes Stink on Free Market
05/26/00: Signs the Gun-Control Apocalypse May be Upon Us
05/24/00: "Dirty Harry" to Congress: Go Ahead, Make My ADA
05/19/00: Jesse's Digital Plantation
05/17/00: Bobby Knight, Tom Osborne: In Sports, Politics, Good Guys, Authorities Lose, Bad Guys Win
05/12/00: Hey, Million Ignorant Moms: Guns are #1 in Feminine Protection
05/09/00: Clinton Saga is Bad Seinfeld Episode
05/05/00: Barbie Will Never Be President
05/02/00: Greg Craig's Ethics Violations Merit Disbarment
04/25/00: Ain't No Jive Bro: Rapping Republicans Get It Right
04/19/00: Earth Day's Gore-y Details
04/10/00: Whose Ox is Being Gored: Racist Democrats and Other Hypocrisies
04/04/00: Are You Ready For Some Lim-Ball?: Put Rush in the MNF Booth
03/29/00: Oscar Winners' Spaceyed-Out Values, Politics
03/22/00: Good-bye John Skywalker, Hello Darth Buchanan!
03/16/00: Noncens(us)
03/13/00: German Artist's Nazi Abomination Against Giuliani
03/09/00: Hollywood's Clinton Gore Free Speech Hypocrisy
03/01/00: Why I Voted for McSkywalker
02/23/00: Oxygen?: New Chick Channel’s Liberal Anti-Male Agenda Leaves Viewers Gasping
02/07/00: Benetton's Death Penalty Politics
01/28/00: NFL’s Fake Pass at Women
01/25/00: 'Patriotic' MTV?
01/18/00: Civil and right? Hardly
01/12/00: Sticking to my Guns
12/31/99: Go away, Monica!
11/24/99: Million-dollar boobs
11/11/99: It Takes a Sports Team
11/02/99: Unclothing Marilyn
10/26/99: Gerald Ford, racist?
10/12/99: Stop 'Holocaust obsession'
09/22/99: 'Stardumb'
09/03/99: WNBA “players” are the female firefighters of pro sports
08/24/99: Viagra Can't Cure Republican E.D.
08/18/99: Jewish shame: Why does a Jewish 'defense organization' want to put Jewish lives at risk?
© 2000, Debbie Schlussel
"And don’t be surprised if Dennis Miller’s editorializing about the evils of guns and Republicans at halftime..."
=====================================
Time we ALL called our local stations...
woodit
======================================
Jewish World Review Oct. 6, 2000 / 7 Tishrei, 5761
Debbie Schlussel
Fairness
It's official, TV stations no longer have to be "fair" or "balanced"
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IMAGINE your local TV station endorses Al Gore for President, and then engages in non-stop attacks on George W. Bush’s character, alleging that he may have used drugs and is less than intelligent. Imagine ABC endorsing strict gun control and running a one-hour special attacking Charlton Heston’s character and describing the NRA as a bunch of rednecks. Imagine 24 hours of Hillary Headline News on CNN.
Well, stop imagining. Because, as of Wednesday, any of this stuff could happen, courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
You know the liberal media? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It’s about to get a lot worse.
According to Variety, on Wednesday, the FCC voted 3-2 to lift its political editorial and personal attack rules for the next 60 days. This leaves TV and radio outlets free to endorse candidates, run political editorials, and make character attacks on candidates, without providing free airtime to the other side, a requirement of the Doctrine.
And while the FCC is lifting "political editorial and personal attack rules" for only 60 days, these next 60 days are crucial to candidates in tight races, as they make their final push to the polls.
Candidates like George W. Bush. Candidates like Rick Lazio. Republican candidates trying to hold on to control of Congress. Candidates the liberal media despise. Candidates the media would love to attack, ad hominem, without allowing a response. Right before the election.
And this could become permanent, for all future elections to come.
The FCC lifted rules requiring equal time, under pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). Both have repeatedly challenged the "political editorial and personal attack rules" in the courts, arguing that it violates their First Amendment rights. And they’ve repeatedly lost, including at the Supreme Court level.
That’s because we, the public, finance the airwaves on which these liberal broadcasters spew their leftist views, on which they show their trashy programming. They can exercise their free speech any day, any time, but not on airwaves that are owned and provided by us. Until now.
Joel Cheatwood, VP of news for CBS TV stations, and Jay Ireland, President of NBC television stations division, tell Variety that they doubt TV outlets will launch unfair attacks because “most broadcasters feel an inherent need to be fair.” Yeah, right. And Bill Clinton “did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
Think Disney Chief Michael Eisner -- a top contributor to Clinton and Gore -- won’t take full advantage of these rules to return his buddies to the White House for another 8 years? Ditto for USA Network chief Barry Diller. And Chaim Saban, head honcho of FOX Kids Network, and a huge Gore fundraiser.
We already see the unfairness and inequity in coverage of Republicans, especially conservatives, on CNNABCCBSNBC, etc. And unleashing a wild dog won’t make him bite less. It has the opposite effect. Until now, there’s, at least, been some semblance of “fairness” and “objectivity.” The key word being, “semblance.”
But even with that, Bush can do no right. He’s an ignorant, spoiled rich kid, with no experience, running on his daddy’s name, according to slanted media portrayals. Lazio’s an arrogant, young punk, who violated a First Lady’s space. And Gore’s a competent, experienced, smart Vietnam Vet from a farm in Carthage, Tennessee, they tell us. Hillary’s a talented, smart lawyer, who’s devoted her life to America’s children, and is a victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Of course, reality elucidates the exact opposite of all of these liberal media narratives. And that’s with equal time rules intact. So, imagine the media propaganda in the next 60 days, without even that.
Liberal Dennis Miller on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” comparing a failed field goal attempt to George W. Bush’s tax plan, or a screwed up play to alleged screwed up integrity of conservative candidates. Or cartoons on FOX Kids telling kids about those big, bad Republicans who want to destroy the environment so their pet dog dies. Or WWF’s “The Rock” telling mindless wrestling viewers on TNN and MTV that Republicans in Congress are “jabronis” (his favorite epithet).
It’s no joke. It’s the FCC’s new reality. And it’s a nightmare.
But we can stop it. The FCC is requiring broadcasters to keep records on how many complaints they receive during the next 60 days, which they must report to the FCC. Assuming they keep honest records –a big assumption -- we owe it to ourselves and the future of sane, fair elections to call, write, or e-mail local and national broadcast outlets when they abuse the new, relaxed rules. If not, you can bet the rules will become permanent, and liberals will win more elections.
Remember that imaginary NRA special ABC could do against the NRA. It’s not imaginary. On Monday Night, before Monday Night Football, ABC will be doing a one-hour special on the NRA’s political action in elections. It wasn’t going to be a fair program to begin with. With the new rules, you can bet it’ll be a lot worse.
And don’t be surprised if Dennis Miller’s editorializing about the evils of guns and Republicans at halftime.
JWR contributor Debbie Schlussel is a Detroit-based commentator, attorney, and sports and entertainment agent. While she reads all of her mail, she regrets she cannot respond to each letter. Send your comments to her by clicking here.
10/03/00: Hillary Lesbian Ads, NRA Infomercials, & Other Stuff You Won’t See on TV
09/29/00: AlGore’s misogynist hate music
09/26/00: Ask Oprah/Regis: “Women’s” Vote Debases Presidency
09/22/00: Gun Control, Nike Slasher Ads, and Other Politically Correct Olympic Tales
09/19/00: Al Sharpton: Real Home of the Whopper
09/15/00: Pedophilia good, religion, bad
09/05/00: Political ADL Should Lose its Tax-Exempt Status
08/29/00: Time for Racist, Sexist WNBA & Other Feminist Girlie Sports Sideshows to Go
08/25/00: Will the Real Boston Globe Plagiarist Please Stand Up?
08/25/00: Cathy Young Doth Protest Too Much, But Facts are Facts
08/22/00: Karenna: Gore Chicklet Doesn't Represent My Generation
08/18/00: NBC: National Kennedy Channel
08/15/00: Give Him an Oscar: Flip-floppin' Lieberman parties with "Jenny Jones" producer
08/11/00: Confessions of An Orthodox Jewish Former Candidate: Why I Won't Vote for Lieberman
08/07/00: Forget About Merit: W's GOP Disses Affirmative Action Foes
08/01/00: What's an Obscene Guy Like You Doing in a Place Like This?: WWF's "The Rock" at the GOP Convention
07/28/00: The Naked Truth: Democrats Pose for Playboy
07/25/00: What Dubyah should have known about his would-be veep
07/21/00: Scouting-out political correctness
07/18/00: When 'Big Brother' is a black supremacist
07/14/00: Ted Kennedy's Hate Crime
07/11/00: Sleeping With the Enemy: Bush Health Care Advisor, Congressman are GOP's Monica, Bill
07/07/00: Survivor: Politically Correct Darwinism
07/05/00: Dummies Across America
06/29/00: Rio Ramirez: Cuban Olympic Diving Defector's What Elian Could've Been
06/26/00: Too Bad it's Miller Time: MNF Pass Rush Over Ratings is Huge Fumble
06/23/00: PETA's McCruel Child Abuse
06/20/00: Clinton's my father, too
06/16/00: Hillary Pimps the Sex Trade
06/13/00: 'Musical' mind molesters
06/08/00: Bigoted and Rich: Corzine's election belies Dems' phony image
06/06/00: Slumming it: My Night on Slumlord Al's "Farm"
06/02/00: Hillary Myths and Facts: What Lazio Must Make Every Voter Know
05/31/00: Welcome to Equality, Babe: Female "Pro" Athletes Stink on Free Market
05/26/00: Signs the Gun-Control Apocalypse May be Upon Us
05/24/00: "Dirty Harry" to Congress: Go Ahead, Make My ADA
05/19/00: Jesse's Digital Plantation
05/17/00: Bobby Knight, Tom Osborne: In Sports, Politics, Good Guys, Authorities Lose, Bad Guys Win
05/12/00: Hey, Million Ignorant Moms: Guns are #1 in Feminine Protection
05/09/00: Clinton Saga is Bad Seinfeld Episode
05/05/00: Barbie Will Never Be President
05/02/00: Greg Craig's Ethics Violations Merit Disbarment
04/25/00: Ain't No Jive Bro: Rapping Republicans Get It Right
04/19/00: Earth Day's Gore-y Details
04/10/00: Whose Ox is Being Gored: Racist Democrats and Other Hypocrisies
04/04/00: Are You Ready For Some Lim-Ball?: Put Rush in the MNF Booth
03/29/00: Oscar Winners' Spaceyed-Out Values, Politics
03/22/00: Good-bye John Skywalker, Hello Darth Buchanan!
03/16/00: Noncens(us)
03/13/00: German Artist's Nazi Abomination Against Giuliani
03/09/00: Hollywood's Clinton Gore Free Speech Hypocrisy
03/01/00: Why I Voted for McSkywalker
02/23/00: Oxygen?: New Chick Channel’s Liberal Anti-Male Agenda Leaves Viewers Gasping
02/07/00: Benetton's Death Penalty Politics
01/28/00: NFL’s Fake Pass at Women
01/25/00: 'Patriotic' MTV?
01/18/00: Civil and right? Hardly
01/12/00: Sticking to my Guns
12/31/99: Go away, Monica!
11/24/99: Million-dollar boobs
11/11/99: It Takes a Sports Team
11/02/99: Unclothing Marilyn
10/26/99: Gerald Ford, racist?
10/12/99: Stop 'Holocaust obsession'
09/22/99: 'Stardumb'
09/03/99: WNBA “players” are the female firefighters of pro sports
08/24/99: Viagra Can't Cure Republican E.D.
08/18/99: Jewish shame: Why does a Jewish 'defense organization' want to put Jewish lives at risk?
© 2000, Debbie Schlussel
What is more infuriating then anything else on earth be it even satan himself, is the idiots that are unable to think for themselves. If 20% of the amerikan population had the IQ of of our spit they'd be a thousand times better, and there would be outrage, but as weak, disgusting and pathetic as they are most of their time will be spent justifying every single action of their goverment and eagerly waiting to call 1-800-I-SNITCH to turn anyone in who doesn't worship their god the .gov. God I HATE them and their *&%$ing media.