http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050113/D87JBUQG0.html
Okay, first off, the law being applied was intended to stop payola...but isn't that really what this was? Sure, it didn't help a record company make money. What it did was more important than that.
Over the past year, when you factor in everyone's agendas on issues, it has gotten to the point where you just don't know what to believe any more. On several occassions, I have been able to take a single story and apply both sets of spin to it, and to be honest, the truth and the facts don't really matter any more.
The result is an increasing amount of boutique news...news just for conservatives, news just for progressives, news just for gay, paraplegic, six-fingered librarians. And people increasingly hear what they want to hear instead of being challenged. As a result, everyone's beliefs become rigid and inflexible and the divisiveness increases.
If Armstrong Williams is right, and this practice is going on throughout newspapers and radio stations, then there's a definite need for investigation and disclosure.
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