Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114642)	7/30/2008 8:45:52 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

>Wayne, The Times is a right wing newspaper< Only if your perception of the center is Pravda. ;-) Seriously, everyone with a functioning brain knows that the Times is left of center. You discredit yourself to claim otherwise. >As far as radio shows go, Limbaugh and the other airbags have free speech and the radio stations do not have to offer equal time to the crapola they spew. Hell, I don't think I've listened to AM radio since high school. However, if they have a political guest, ala Dick Cheney or John McCain, they should offer equal time to any serious alternative spokesman.< They occasionally do, but that's not a valid complaint. These aren't news shows. They are entertainment shows specifically designed to give a right wing audience the chance to vent and get a political perspective they don't get via mainstream news. The only thing the radio station should be required to do is allow for the creation of similar left wing entertainment shows. They do and they all fail. There are plenty of left leaning political entertainment shows on TV (HBO, Comedy Central, MTV etc..) that don't have real balance. They are handled much like the Hannity show where there is a right wing guest here or there, but the audience is stacked, he's rarely given a fair shake etc... There's nothing wrong with that either.