Posted by
Katy Grimes on Monday, May 12, 2008 5:29:41 PM
The Sacramento Bee has done it again. This time they are advancing the cause for the "Fairness Doctrine" under the auspices of "it's not fair."
On the Forum page in Sunday May 11, 2008, former Capital Public Radio personality Sue Wilson penned an opinion piece whining about how conservative talk radio is unfair because it dominates talk radio. She complained that liberal local talk radio was "taken" off the air (unfairly).
Wilson prattles on to support her opinion:
In the political realm, three local radio stations program 264 hours of partisan Republican radio talkers beating up on Democrats every week. Now, zero stations program any Democratic view whatsoever: 264-0. This follows the national trend revealed in the 2007 Free Press and Center for American Progress study, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." Nationally, 90 percent of commercial talk radio is conservative; only 10 percent is liberal. (This study does not include Public Radio, which by statute is required to provide differing points of view. One is as likely to hear a Republican's views as a Democrat's. And NPR hosts don't beat up on anybody.)
Sue Wilson obviously never sat through a semester in Economics or even U.S. History. She does not understand that "if you build it they will come" only works in the movies. Basic economics tear her theory and whining apart. If not enough listeners tune in to a radio show to sell the advertising necessary to keep it on air, the owner of the radio station pulls the show. It's called supply and demand - not fair or unfair.
That's just the economic aspect. The political aspect is that people are obviously bored with the radio personalities and their liberal rhetoric. They spend entire shows whining, complaining, but never offer solutions or ideasIf we don't like it from our kids, why would we subject ourselves to it on the radio? They use foul language, they say horrible things about people, and it's pretty obvious why they do not have a listening audience capable of supporting the programming. What advertiser wants to have his company name associated with whining, anger, foul language, liberal rhetoric?
The Liberal agenda already controls most of our news and information sources: television news, newspapers, news shows, as well as the entertainment industry which slants almost all movies to the left and rewrites history. Additionally, educators indoctrinate students with the liberal agenda from elementary school through college.
And now liberals want to eradicate radio of
any conservative thought. That's called censorship and is a violation of free speech rights guaranteed in our constitution - Amendment l to the Constitution, ratified December 15, 1791.
Ms. Wilson lives in a bubble. She needs to branch out and listen to some of the "conservative" radio she claims is dominating the air waves. But that's too much to ask. A differing opinion is unacceptible to most liberals. And don't bog them down with facts, research and history.
One aspect conservatives have over liberals: we are constantly bombarded with the liberal message everywhere we turn. Consequently, we are able to sort through both points of view and derive an educated opinion.
Sue Wilson cannot say that. Her opinion piece was an embarrassment - full of holes, a purely emotional argument, and used faulty, skewed research.
Read her opinion column for yourself:
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/927485.html The Sacramento Bee has exhibited an incredible lack of journalistic professionalism, judgment and once again demonstrated to readers that it is no longer a credible news source.