Bill Press laments after his firing. Well, we got that out of the way ...

If the "progressive" radio stations were prevented from airing, that would be one thing. However, if they air and no one listens, that's what competition is all about. Again, this is the difference between equality of opportunity versus equality of outcomes. The opportunity is the same, but the outcome isn't - and liberals use that as evidence of inequality. No, it's equal in opportunity. That's all that counts.

Press...

Unplug your ears...NOBODY wants to listen to YOU and your ilk.

This is still a free-market, capitalist country, slipping away with speed now that you and your ilk are in power... we know you and others do not want to keep it as such....as you are proving right here with your own mouth.

Conspiracy my arse...the only conspiracy that has been going on for decades and decades is complete leftist power...and you are every inch a part of it...you phony baloney liar.

I watched him too many years on Cross Fire....I still find him despicable, a perfect enemy within, who usually makes an arse of himself every time he opens his mindless yapper...but still makes you want to reach out with a sharp pin and pop one of those veins that are bulging from his head/neck area when he talking to a conservative.

I detest him, can you tell?

Sorry for the rant...but I feel better now. 

All these left loonies just can't handle the fact there is one medium their communist agents can't control. They are just too dim witted to realize the radio is the one place sane people can get away from the propaganda they flood the markets with in the print, television and movie industries. Newspapers are going bankrupt because they create bogus news rather than report the truth. Network television is an insult to any intelligent person with their complete bias in favor of the moon bats. Hollywood is putting out anti American drivel. If the libs reinstitute the "fairness doctrine" it should have to include print and video media as well, and they sure won't want that.

Why does conservative radio thrive? Because they listen to BOTH SIDES of an argument. Medved, Rush, Hannity...all of them say "this is myopinion, if you disagree with me then I would like to hear from you, give us a call".Then when some libtard calls in, they dismantle them with logic.

Lib radio does not do that. They can't do that because they can't defend their positions with logic. They rely on emotion. So all they do is harp for the entire show and ttake calls from morons who agree with them and spout BDS crap.

That's why they fail.  

Look out, Mr. Bill!  Sluggo Limbaugh is coming to get you!  Ohhhhhhhhh noooooooooo! 

"There is no free market in talk radio today, only an exclusive, tightly held, conservative media conspiracy. The few holders of broadcast licenses have made it clear they will not, on their own, serve the general public. Maybeit's time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine -- and bring competition back to talk radio in Washington and elsewhere."

Bill, take a moment and read what you wrote.  That the license holders can choose what they will program -  on the stations for which they, not the government, hold licenses - indicates that the free market is alive and well.  It seems to me that the free market in broadcasting ends as soon as the government tells the license holders what they can and cannot broadcast.

You tried competing.  Air America and Obama 1260 failed.  ("I won" sound familiar?)  Try offering programming that is competitive.  There are lots of AM stations out there that don't broadcast Rush et al.  Go sell your liberal pitch to them if you want to get on the public airwaves.

Rush is right when he says "I AM equal time!"

Isn't it hilarious that you never hear them bewailing the lack of balance on TV and in the rest of the media?  The "free market" works just fine for them there.

They have all the major network news shows, most of theSunday opinion shows with a 3-1lib/conservative ratio, NPR, PBS, etc. and the minute Rush or Hannity open their mouth, all of a sudden we need an opposing viewpoint for everything they talk about, as if it doesn't exist.  How about getting on Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow to have a guest on who doesn't toe their line?

At least Rush and Hannity take calls from people who disagree! 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Conservative talk radio has the numbers of listeners it has because it is about the only source for conservative opinions/views and balanced reporting.

Rush has an audience larger than any of the TV news shows including the much over hyped Meet the Press, which on a good Sunday might get 4 million viewers.

Bill can’t compete because his liberal views are a dime a dozen and just about everywhere except conservative talk radio.

According to Press:  There is no free market in talk radio today, only an exclusive, tightly held, conservative media conspiracy.

My guess is he's trying to define the free market as a smorgasbord of ideas rather than an economic phenomenon where consumers decide winners and losers.

Why would Press do this?  He's lost so many times based on the real free market--this isn't the first time he's lost his job--and nobody listens to him because he never makes a point.  Now he wants his definition of the free market to be enforced by like-minded government.

If you can't beat 'em, have them regulated out of business. 

Bill Press is such a whiner. And now shows himself to be such a loser. I live on the southern outskirts of DC. We get bombarded with liberal radio. I live to far to get 630AM on most radios, but I am well within range of NPR, WTOP LIB NEWS Radio. I never knew that straight news could be slanted in this country until I listened to the simulcast that goes over three DC stations at once. If Bill Press can't make it here, he needs to find a small PBS station in Eastern Montana to hide in.

I had an email exchange with Bill a couple years back and the guy is a certifiable loon.  His support of the Anti-First Amendment Doctrine doesn't surprise me.

Incidentally, Bill also fell for the phony "Bush's retard-level IQ" story that was going around.  When he was called on it, his response was directly from the liberals' "fake but accurate" line of reasoning.

If they pass it, I will revolt. I hope others will join me. This country will not be my country anymore. I will not stand by and watch the US turn into a communist state. Seriously, I will join some radical group, and put everything I have on the line for freedom of speech. That is my line....

c

Having grown up in the LA area, I had the misfortune of knowing Bill Press quite well.  I don't know if I've ever seen someone more proud of his ignorance than Bill Press is.  One could argue that some liberals are talented broadcasters (Keith Olbermann and Stephanie Miller certainly have their moments), but Bill Press is as boring as he is obnoxious.  He's also neck deep in corruption. 

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

A few days ago there was a discussion of this on another site where some liberal tried to claim there was a shortage of available *frequencies on the radio.  I don't know about where you live, but here, if you have an old radio with a dial you will find vast swaths of unused *channels on the AM side.  (If you "scan" or "search
" you will not see this because you go right to the next broadcast.)

* I know AM is amplitude modulation, not frequency modulation, so I am not really sure what you call it when you switch- "channels"(?) 

Folks, they will come after he internet news sites by turning control of the internet over to the UN.  Then Conservative speech will be "hate speech".

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html 

Everyone seems to ignore the fact that the left already has radio programming that is broadcast nationwide - it is called NPR, National Public Radio, which we all have to pay for.  What they also want and obviously think they somehow deserve is private, commercially profitable radio programming, which apparently is impossible because no one wants to listen to them.  Any government meddling to promote some illusory standard of fairness will only result in profitable enterprises become commerically unviable.

Will a Fairness Doctrine be pretty much a bailout for liberal radio?

Libtalk has succeeded in a couple cities but mostly is far behind conservative hosts, despite then-Air America bigwig Jon Sinton's prediction in 2004 that "in five years, we'll be on 600 stations" (in a story plugging Air America in the Boston Globe). Boston is an interesting case...AAR lasted from Oct of '04 till Dec of '06, when Clear Channel pulled the plug on WKOX and WXKS' libtalk, substituting "Rumba" Spanish programming.

The latest effort to bring it back came in December when a sports station put on two libtalk shows--they had to buy the time. And these shows have suddenly disappeared now as well. Naturally the libs feel it's a big-media conspiracy to deny them their First Amendment rights, but the FD is more like a squelch on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Stations should air what they want, and I don't want the government stepping in. A "localism" bill may be a back door way of bringing the FD back. And yes, nothing wrong with local shows, but let the market decide. What does it say when libtalk crashes and burns in places like Boston and D.C. (At least it wasn't forced on.)

(Meanwhile, Boston conservative host Howie Carr was #1 in his time slot recently. Maybe he's like what Rush claims to be: "I _am_ equal time!" Equal time to oppose the liberal slant elsewhere in media.)

 Liberals are fooling themselves if they want to deny these freedoms with the return of the FD. If left talk flies, great, and if not, that's fine too, but let the market decide! Besides there are many, many other media outlets out there for them.