http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/12/the-weakened-state-of-religious-liberty/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/12/the-weakened-state-of-religious-liberty/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:30:56 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=47991 writes at the The Ethics and Religious Liberty Comission blog: "Our nation will give special emphasis this week to a constitutional protection and timeless right conferred to us by God: religious liberty. President Obama will set aside Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day, continuing an annual tradition begun in 1993 to commemorate the 1786 passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a forerunner to the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. As we begin 2010, it is fitting that we pause to take inventory of our religious freedom. In short, our “first freedom” has fallen on hard times. Consider its weakening condition over the last 12 months." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/12/the-weakened-state-of-religious-liberty/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/net-neutrality-is-fairness-doctrine-for-the-internet/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/net-neutrality-is-fairness-doctrine-for-the-internet/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:27:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=39888 The HILL: "Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) spoke against net neutrality regulations today at an event put on by the Safe Internet Alliance. Representing the songwriters, singers, actors, producers and other entertainers in Memphis and Nashville, she said the creative community does not want the federal government to interfere with how they are able to get content to consumers via the Internet." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/net-neutrality-is-fairness-doctrine-for-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/broadcast-localism-and-the-lessons-of-the-fairness-doctrine/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/broadcast-localism-and-the-lessons-of-the-fairness-doctrine/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:31:45 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=37169 Broadcast Localism and the Lessons of the Fairness Doctrine. Cato Policy Analysis Series, No. 639, May 27, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1462192 "The history of the Fairness Doctrine suggests that federal officials who make and enforce such policies are more concerned with limiting political debate than they are with advancing local concerns or the public interest. Like the Fairness Doctrine, the FCC's localism initiative poses the risk of restricting speech. Our unhappy experience with the Fairness Doctrine suggests that imposing localism mandates on broadcasters is unlikely to serve the public interest in constitutional propriety and uninhibited political debate." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/broadcast-localism-and-the-lessons-of-the-fairness-doctrine/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/10/cass-sunstein-supports-an-internet-fairness-doctrine/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/10/cass-sunstein-supports-an-internet-fairness-doctrine/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:57:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=35748 Dakota Voice: "You may have already been aware that Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), is an animal rights extremist who even opposes hunting and thinks animals should be able to file lawsuits. (Well, you might say, how do you top that?) But did you know that Sunstein believes you can’t be trusted to think for yourself?" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/10/cass-sunstein-supports-an-internet-fairness-doctrine/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/inspired-by-saul-alinsky-fcc-diversity-chief-calls-for-%e2%80%98confrontational-movement%e2%80%99-to-give-public-broadcasting-dominant-role-in-communications/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/inspired-by-saul-alinsky-fcc-diversity-chief-calls-for-%e2%80%98confrontational-movement%e2%80%99-to-give-public-broadcasting-dominant-role-in-communications/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:58:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34287 CNSNews: "Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a 'confrontational movement' to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/inspired-by-saul-alinsky-fcc-diversity-chief-calls-for-%e2%80%98confrontational-movement%e2%80%99-to-give-public-broadcasting-dominant-role-in-communications/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/the-fairness-doctrine-its%e2%80%99-about-free-speech-unless-they-disagree-with-your-content/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/the-fairness-doctrine-its%e2%80%99-about-free-speech-unless-they-disagree-with-your-content/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:04:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=33440 Examiner: "The Obama administration has stepped in to circumvent obstacles to reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine and halt dissemination of truthful information to the American people. The information which is detrimental to the furthering of his political agenda is all apparently from one source – conservative talk radio." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/the-fairness-doctrine-its%e2%80%99-about-free-speech-unless-they-disagree-with-your-content/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/top-senate-republican-fears-fccs-diversity-chief-may-use-back-door-to-regulate-talk-radio/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/top-senate-republican-fears-fccs-diversity-chief-may-use-back-door-to-regulate-talk-radio/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:08:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=33417 CNSNews: "Grassley wrote. 'I am concerned that despite his statements that the Fairness Doctrine is unnecessary, Mr. Lloyd supports a backdoor method of furthering the goals of the Fairness Doctrine by other means.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/18/top-senate-republican-fears-fccs-diversity-chief-may-use-back-door-to-regulate-talk-radio/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/13/fcc%e2%80%99s-chief-diversity-officer-wants-private-broadcasters-to-pay-a-sum-equal-to-their-total-operating-costs-to-fund-public-broadcasting/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/13/fcc%e2%80%99s-chief-diversity-officer-wants-private-broadcasters-to-pay-a-sum-equal-to-their-total-operating-costs-to-fund-public-broadcasting/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=32916 CNSNews: "Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/13/fcc%e2%80%99s-chief-diversity-officer-wants-private-broadcasters-to-pay-a-sum-equal-to-their-total-operating-costs-to-fund-public-broadcasting/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/20/committee-rejects-amendment-to-ban-fairness-doctrine/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/20/committee-rejects-amendment-to-ban-fairness-doctrine/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:16:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=30655 TelevisionBroadcast.com: "The House Rules Committee has rejected a bill that would have blocked the Federal Communications Commission from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine or enacting proposed localism regulations for the next fiscal year." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/20/committee-rejects-amendment-to-ban-fairness-doctrine/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/23/fairness-doctrine-by-another-name/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/23/fairness-doctrine-by-another-name/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:37:28 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=27945 writes in The American Spectator (via the ACLJ): "The Fairness Doctrine may be dead, but media content regulation is another story. Just as the Obama administration has appointed White House policy czars to skirt the constitutionally required "advise and consent" of Senate approval, the FCC has been discussing activist media regulatory initiatives without subjecting the policies to a public debate in Congress." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/23/fairness-doctrine-by-another-name/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/06/michael-savage-responds-to-uk-ban-threatens-suit/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/06/michael-savage-responds-to-uk-ban-threatens-suit/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 15:30:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=23369 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/06/michael-savage-responds-to-uk-ban-threatens-suit/feed/ 0