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Mar 12, 2004Are Conservatives All Socialists Now?
Have you noticed when it comes to the airwaves, nearly everyone is a socialist? In the controversies surrounding Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Howard Stern, and Bubba the Love Sponge, the phrase"the public's airwaves" has been invoked multitudinously. In all the cable-TV debates over the coming crackdown on TV and radio indecency, I haven't heard one person question this collectivism. Conservatives are the worst offenders. Where are the individualists among them?
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Robert L. Campbell - 3/12/2004
Apparently the urge to play the wowser is irresistible, among the culturally conservative. You'd think they would know better, when the FCC's now-abandoned "Fairness Doctrine" used to be used against them with some regularity.
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