With the election behind us and in the books and time being short because of the holidays, the Letters to the Editor section of the OC Register has been a great source of amusement of angst-filled conservatives bemoaning a bluer…
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RIP: The Fairness Doctrine
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
The FCC yesteday effectively killed the Fairness Doctrine, which had been effectively deregulated since the Reagan Administration, along with about 80 other rules affecting broadcast communication that the Obama Administration considers “out of date.” I believe this is a mistake.…
New York Town Clerk Resigns Rather Than Perform Gay Marriage Ceremonies
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
A town clerk in Broome County in Upstate New York has resigned her position on religious grounds rather than perform gay marriages as part of her duties. Barker, NY Town Clerk Laura Fotusky cited the Bible in resigning. From her resignation…
Rep. Royce Ties Arizona Shooting to Fairness Doctrine (huh?)
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
Fallout from the Arizona shooting continues to reverberate from Washington DC to Orange County. Last week, Irvine City Council member and 2010 Democratic congressional candidate Beth Krom weighed in with a letter to the editor in the OC Register calling…
Rand Paul Tells Rachel Maddow Property Rights Trump Civil Rights
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
The Libertarians at the OC Register’s editorial desks are going to be telling us what Rand Paul meant instead of defending what he said after his recent Q&A with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. The darling of the Tea Partiers and…
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson Wins Peabody Award
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, former Capitol reporter for the OC Register, is among the winners of the 2009 George Foster Peabody Awards for her “precise, courageous and often moving accounts” from Afghanistan. Nelson left the Register in 2006 to open National Public…
