Is Louise Slaughter a busybody liberal?

Question

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/slaughter.html

I suggest you read the whole thing. It is quite illuminating.

Ooooh, Haliburton. Tell me how you really feel.

Answer 1

Sounded like a standard-issue Democrat, to me. Outraged that conservative messages have a presence in talk radio and FOX news - when all the liberal messages have is /everything else/.

What I really noticed from reading a transcript was how 'on the same page' she and Moyers were. It was like there was one guy with a sock puppet named Moyers on one hand and a sock puppet named Slaughter on the other just doing the whole thing from a script.

Answer 2

Very interesting. I don't support the Fairness Doctrine because I think it's a violation of the 1st Amendment. I don't think the government should be telling radio stations what they must program. I am however, very much in favor of repealing the 1996 Telecommunications Act for reasons similiar to those of Louise Slaughter's argument on behalf of the FD.

I would reconsider my views on the FD, but I'd really like to see the 96 Telecom Act repealed first and see if that doesn't fix the problem.