Fox News lets Hayworth promote his Senate campaign website
February 08, 2010 5:04 pm ET
From the February 8 edition of Fox News' Your World:


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The recent Supreme Court ruling gives FOX the green light to brazenly endorse candidates, even if they're on the FOX payroll. If Simple Sarah doesn't implode from the weight of her own stupidity, FOX could become her own little PAC, with all the free air time she needs to run for President.
The most important distinction to make here in considering the "electioneering" (that's the word the Supreme Court uses) that corporations now (according to that same corrupted Court) can engage in without limitation, is that News Corporation uses the public airwaves, by way of FCC Licenses issued to them by the FCC, which is of course an agency of our government and is meant to serve us.
Did Fox News Channel ever consider providing "Equal Time" to candidate McCain, when it promoted (on our public airwaves) candidate Hayworth and his website?
How about in the campaign for the general election, will FNC be providing "Equal Time" and an equal platform (on our public airwaves) to the Democratic candidate versus McCain or Hayworth?
Does murdoch's (and the saudi royal family who owns with him a significant corporate share) News Corporation think they own the public airwaves they use?
And if so, then why do they require an FCC License from our federal government's FCC to broadcast on those airwaves?
In brief, that's as significant and important a point to make as any, in Fox News Corporation's "electioneering" by way of an FCC License on our public airwaves, and I'll never understand people on this side of the political spectrum who seem just happy to forfeit our public airwaves and the regulation of them, to private corporations such as News Corp.
"Equal Time" in the broadcasting of political opinions (by corporate broadcasters) on our public airwaves, and "Reply Time" in the broadcasting of personal attacks, all of it on our public airwaves and under the jurisdiction of the FCC, by way of a precious and privileged FCC License (precious and privileged, as in do you have one or have any chance in heck of ever getting one?)...
It was good enough for forty years as FCC regulatory policy, and was good enough for the administration's of Roosevelt and Truman and Gen. Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon and Ford and Carter and even Reagan too, until the old corrupted fool unilaterally (w/o Congressional approval) deregulated our public airwaves in this regard, politically empowering News Corporation into the monster that presently corrupts our democracy, on our own public property and by way of an FCC License we give them.
The people of Arizona is stupid for even thinking of voting for this fool!
D@MN $HAME!