How is it the GOP gets 3-hour a day ads free?

[casus belli]

Part of my job gives me a fairly significant amount of windshield time. Occasionally, I check in with AM Radio to see what the talking points for ditto-heads and the sham-itized will be, since it's normally an echo of whatever talking points Limbaugh and Hannity spew for the day. As of late, these "talk shows" have been nothing more than 3-hour long advertisements for the Republican party. Today, Hannity had several candidates on, no equal time, and throughout the entire show was encouraging Republicans to show up at the polls.

I'm fully aware that this becomes a slippery slope, because the last thing I would ever advocate is violating free speech to silence even those I despise. But where, and how, is the line drawn between a "talk show" and a 3-hour long political commercial.

And how do we level the playing field without hindering their right to free speech. It's beginning to make more and more sense to me why Rove's GOTV program is so efficient. I think Democrats would be equally efficient if they had 13,000,000 listeners to a 15 hour a week infomercial for the party.

I can't wait until tomorrow.

edited for grammatical errors, guess I'm pissed. :shrug:

[tkmorris]

1. Once upon a time, in a place called America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

[razors edge]

3. Beat me to it, it's cheaper than the Fairness Doctrine and

the GOP supports their agenda to consolidate all media.

[casus belli]

5. Thanks for the link.

I can see why people would be overly cautious of something which, on the surface, seems to limit freedom of speech. But given today's current political climate, I can see why it was implemented to begin with.

I get tired of hearing about liberal media bias, as the term now includes news broadcast without a clearly conservative viewpoint included. That any conservative could call NPR a liberally biased program is incredible. NPR has one of THE most balanced news presentations I have seen in media. That's not liberal bias, cons, that's called JOURNALISM.

Bah. It's getting to be overload. They've infiltrated everything meaningful with their hate-driven filth.

[Skittles]

2. republicans approve of being lied to, they enjoy listening to garbage

righwing radio is tabloid trash which will always be more popular than a true thinking format

[casus belli]

4. Unfortunately true.

But aren't they in violation of election laws by endorsing a party and encouraging people to vote for that party without equal time? Such a slippery slope...