Our first 'Pail Poll of 2009 is now closed, and it asked whether you will violate more Allowed Clouds in the new year.
In this poll, 11 of you said you would violate more Allowed Clouds. Only 2 of you said you'd violate fewer. Oh well. To those 2 people, I guess it's their loss.
Because there's a consensus that the radio airwaves are public property, this week's 'Pail Poll provides 2 strong options on how to restore some sanity to the broadcasting biz.
The options are: 1) By bipping. 2) By stinking. Just joking! Actually the options are: 1) By restoring ownership caps that existed into the '90s. Thus, companies would be limited to owning a certain number of stations in a given market, thereby ensuring a diversity of voices. 2) By reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, under which stations would have to present both sides of controversial issues.
There's merit in both of these options, but you have to prioritize. So vote in this 'Pail Poll now!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Reversing radio's ruin ('Pail Poll)
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Neither of these options have merit and the second one is unconstitutional. Since there's no good option and no "none of the above" (you never include that option, strangely -- why is that?), I can't vote in your poll.
ReplyDeleteSince there's not an unlimited number of over-the-air radio stations (though with satellite and mobile Internet broadcasting, this really doesn't need to be a limitation any more), I'd propose putting the rights to designated AM/FM frequencies up for open-bid auction every 5 years or so.
Then what is your solution to the state of our airwaves ScheffCo?
ReplyDeleteAnd how is the fairness doctrine unconstitutional? Notice ScheffCo never gives a reason it's unconstitutional. It's unconstitutional because it is.
The fairness doctrine was around for fifty years, and all of a sudden now it's "unconstitutional".
Funny...there's no "none of the above" in the real elections, yet you get so upset about there being no "none of the above" here.
Solution (I repeat): Since there's not an unlimited number of over-the-air radio stations (though with satellite and mobile Internet broadcasting, this really doesn't need to be a limitation any more), I'd propose putting the rights to designated AM/FM frequencies up for open-bid auction every 5 years or so.
ReplyDeleteTechnology will make it a non-problem within 10 years. Wireless networks will be everywhere and radio stations will no longer be limited to a handful per market. There's already hundreds, if not thousands, of independent broadcasters on the Internet.
"Fairness Doctrine 2.0" as envisioned Pelosi isn't designed to promote "fairness," it's to silence her party's critics. It is a limitation of free speech, and that is why it is unconstitutional.
Open bid auction...now there's a way to ensure only people with money are able to have a station.
ReplyDeleteOwnership caps aren't going to change that.
ReplyDeleteIt sure was easier to buy a station before the ownership caps were repealed, that is for sure
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