Bob McCarty Writes

Editor’s Note: Thanks to a Google Alert for the terms “Fox News” and “Josh Miller”, a Fox News reporter who interviewed me four months ago (see this BMW post for details), I came across a post published yesterday on Craigslist in Boston that caught my attention.  Posted by someone associated with the Massachusetts-based MassResistance blog, it [...]

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Legendary conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh received help in his campaign against the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” from an unexpected source, liberal talk radio show host Ed Schultz.  Ironically, Schultz most assuredly did not intend to help “El Rushbo” make his argument against the censorship of conservatives on the public airwaves.
During his broadcast Friday, [...]

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In a Politico.com post today, Ben Smith writes about censorship of citizens’ input in a new section launched today on Barack Obama’s Transition Team web site, Change.gov:
President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another’s questions, bringing favored inquiries to the [...]

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Freedom of the press is likely to suffer under the administration of Barack Obama.  How do I know this?  A look back at issues and events that arose during the 2008 presidential campaign reveals as much.
Two weeks prior to the Nov. 4 election, Obama running mate Joe Biden faced tough questions from interviewers at local [...]

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