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To: KonKilo who wrote (28201)	9/8/2006 11:14:06 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542510

That needs to be said over and over again, until everyone "gets" it.

To: KonKilo who wrote (28201)	9/8/2006 11:25:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542510

This comment might make sense if you said, "if the ownership of media outlets was concentrated into a small number of corporations", which it is. Actually it isn't. The old TV networks, the new cable news networks, radio, magazines, newspapers. Add up their owners and you have quite a bit more than just a handful. And that's not even considering the Internet. Even dozens of sources or owners of the sources would be enough to allow a good amount of diversity, but there are far more than that. Unusual or unpopular ideas have more ability to get out now than ever before. "Requiring a particular media outlet to present "both sides" arguments is more likely to inhibit them from explicitly preventing either side than cause them to give free air time to the side they oppose." Didn't happen. Instead we got the closest to real fair and balanced that we have seen, certainly nothing like the rank propaganda that catapults forth these days, unchecked. The "rank propaganda" is the different messages getting out that didn't find it so easy in the past. You may not like it, but good or bad it isn't an example of different voices being stifled but rather different voices being expressed.