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Please, less virtue signaling, more humility
Published: 3/9/2021 2:33:40 PM
A wise teacher once told me, “Choose your enemy with great care because your enemy will most closely resemble yourself.” When you begin to feel like demonizing somebody, start by taking a hard look in the mirror. This is the best defense against the kind of Puritanism that is on the loose in the land today.
Contemporary “virtue signaling” is a secularized version of Puritanism and is thriving across the political spectrum today to the point where it has become the bane of so-called conservatives and liberals alike. I say “so-called” because the original meanings of liberal and conservative have become threadbare with overuse and in some cases have even flip-flopped altogether. As such, they’ve sunk to the level of playground epithets. Virtue signaling on all sides has swollen to grotesque proportions since 2016.
Bring back the fairness doctrine and equal time
Published: 1/26/2021 2:29:27 PM
Bring back the fairness doctrine
I served a four-year hitch in the Navy as a Radioman during the Vietnam conflict. During that time, I earned my First Class Radiotelephone License from the FCC and briefly considered a career in broadcast engineering before turning to other pursuits (I still occasionally dream in Morse Code).
The training for my license included mastery of federal communications law. Among other rules back then, radio and TV outlets were required under the agency’s “Fairness Doctrine” to offer equal time to differing sides on political issues. In 1987, this rule was repealed. The result was a deluge of stations that spawned the talk jocks of today ensconced in their media echo chambers: closed systems where constant repetition of distortions insulated against rebuttal has shaped public opinion to the point where different definitions of reality are able to spread easily.
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