BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

ACTION Alert: US Funded Network Broadcasts Terrorist Propaganda & Holocaust Denial Joel Mowbray's two investigative columns in the Wall Street Journal expose highly irresponsible reporting taking place on Al-Hurra , the Arab language TV network funded by the U.S. government. Launched in February of 2004, the network's mission is to foster in the Arab world a respect for human rights and government accountability, to showcase the American political process, and to counter the pernicious anti-western propaganda so rampant in other Arab media. According to Mowbray, the network was adhering to its mission until last November, when former CNN executive Larry Register was hired to lead Al-Hurra, and it has now degenerated into a platform for Muslim supremacists, anti-western terrorists, Israel-haters and Holocaust deniers . Mowbray notes: "Within weeks of becoming news director, Mr. Register put his own stamp on the network...Investigations into Arab government wrongd...

HOLD THE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE - THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE I've mentioned acerbic radio mouth - Imus and also how I used to be in 'show biz' in the last two posts. So let me segway to something I am behind in terms of the media in the U.S. - The RESTORATION OF THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE! - Barbara The Fairness Doctrine How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back by Steve Rendall A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the Government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount. — U.S. Suprem e Court, upholding the constitutionality of the Fairness Doctrine in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 1969. When the Sinclair Broadcast Group retreated from pre-election plans to force...