Friday, June 29, 2007

‘Fairness’ for Kerry: A liberal lock on the airwaves

The Boston Herald reports:
So now Sen. John Kerry wants the Fairness Doctrine reinstated for broadcasters because the media “have been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views.”
I agree, Liveshot. It’s just terrible the way some pompous, blue-blooded PC politicians are able to get an absolute free ride in the press from their fellow pompous blue-blood media barons for 30-plus years.
As a matter of fact, Sen. Kerry, if I were drafting an indictment of the unfairness of political coverage in the media, you’d be Count One.
Remember 2004? Talk about lack of fairness - that phony Dan Rather “60 Minutes” story about George Bush in the Texas Air National Guard.
Utterly false, debunked within hours, but because it was supposed to help Kerry, it was picked up and splashed across the front page for days by The New York Times [NYT] and the Boston Globe. In fact, days after this latest Jayson Blair-like outburst was debunked as total falsity, the Globe still ran a headline on the front page screaming that it was true, even though the copy below the headline admitted that it was nothing more than another dirty trick from the mainstream media.
How about when Kerry was between heiresses, practically living in his car, and his lame-o media buddies described his travails as “the wandering years.”
.Ouch.No word yet on a "fairness doctrine" in academia.