Comments on: Democracy in America: the Fairness Doctrine and the Expensive Marketplace of Ideas http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/ Democracy in America Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Regulation & the Search for Truth « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-18822 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:16:06 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-18822 [...] There’s not inconsiderable evidence that we’re worse off for that, too. Narrow presentation of major political issues follows as a direct consequence of the narrow media options. The Obama administration can be forgiven, then, for thinking of ways to salvage the admitted public value of independent newspapers, and investigative journalism as a concept, but — and on this, Hot Air comes close to being right on something (ugh) — that’s all for naught if a valuable medium has to take government money to maintain its existence. Those and similar suggestions in a recent FTC working paper on the subject (pdf) will have to go. But others are worth considering — tax breaks to news organizations, for one, where balanced with a serious second look at market consolidation rules, could encourage new, independent, and competitive news entities, to counter the monopolistic and anti-intellectual power of media monoliths. This will mean making peace with the somewhat counterintuitive notion that government regulation over the processes of content production can, when done properly, validate capitalist values like competition, thus energizing the national discourse while undermining and de-necessitating actual government control over the substance of the media. After all, no-one actually wants content regulation. [...]

]]> By: Something Controversial « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-17786 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:31:37 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-17786 [...] for sacrificing quality in favor of quantity of dialogue. Sometimes that’s a good idea, even if it breaks down in the context of modern media, but combined with this country’s almost insurmountably high standard for privacy torts [...]

]]> By: Justifying a Strong First Amendment in the Age of Beck « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-14876 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:17:56 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-14876 [...] of the right, the Fairness Doctrine, is a non-starter. Apart from being political suicide and presumptively unconstitutional, the Fairness Doctrine is, by this time, impractical at the network-by-network level, and [...]

]]> By: Internet Extremism: PUMAs & Censorship « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-10918 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:45:23 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-10918 [...] commercialized media, as I’ve argued before, threatens the utter subversion of the marketplace of ideas. If networks are rewarded for pandering to a demographic (*coughcough* Faux News), the exchange of [...]

]]> By: Election Fallout: Conservative Talk Radio « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-10863 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:34:03 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-10863 [...] complex. Hence persistent conservative obsession with the “Fairness Doctrine,” despite the doctrine’s illegality and President-Elect Obama’s stated unwillingness to pursue it. Talk radio is primarily about [...]

]]> By: Supreme Court Criticizes “Fairness Doctrine”; WND Surprised http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-3640 Sat, 02 May 2009 11:33:48 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-3640 [...] Doctrine has been dead in legal circles for years, at least since its democratic repeal in 1987. It’s not coming [...]

]]> By: Election Fallout: Conservative Talk Radio http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-3639 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:32:45 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-3639 [...] complex. Hence persistent conservative obsession with the “Fairness Doctrine,” despite the doctrine’s illegality and President-Elect Obama’s stated unwillingness to pursue it. Talk radio is primarily about [...]

]]> By: Sarah Palin on the First Amendment: Disagreement is Censorship http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-3638 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:43:13 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-3638 [...] disagree to what degree it’s in trouble, I will agree with Palin that the media is, in fact, in dire need of repair. But not because they’re willing to call a spade a [...]

]]> By: Internet Extremism: PUMAs & Censorship http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-3637 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:01:34 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-3637 [...] commercialized media, as I’ve argued before, threatens the utter subversion of the marketplace of ideas. If networks are rewarded for pandering to a demographic (*coughcough* Faux News), the exchange of [...]

]]> By: Radioactive afikomen http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/14/democracy-in-america-the-fairness-doctrine-and-the-expensive-marketplace-of-ideas/#comment-3636 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:25:07 +0000 http://acandidworld.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-3636

Incdentally, did you ever join the battle against conservapedia? I, you might say, grew weary of battling sauron, and sought the Havens a month or two ago :-), so I’m out of the loop there…

So that’s where you went. I was wondering why absented us. With you and PalMD gone, RationalWiki seems… emptier (despite the sudden influx of new arrivals). Will you ever come back? : (

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