by Kevin Schlegel

Created on: August 16, 2009   Last Updated: August 22, 2009

Why is talk radio important to the public? What does talk radio offer that newspapers and magazines do not? These are very important questions that will be answered in this article. I don't think anyone, let alone Senator Stabenow, should try and regulate (i.e. control) what comes from popular talk radio stations. It is an infringement on first amendment rights, period.

Talk radio is very important and offers much more than what newspapers or other sources of media do not offer, another fair view of how to relate to U.S and world politics. The great voices of talk radio such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Dr. Michael Savage, and many other great radio journalists bring a voice that resonates into the hearts of American people who feel they aren't getting their money's worth from the left wing media. Most major news sources such as The New York Times, Denver Post, Washington Post, and other major publications have a point of view that suits Senator Stabenow's point of view. I don't care what point of view a person has, but trying to regulate what talk radio can or cannot say is hypocrisy, insulting, and illegal. You don't see millions of Republicans or conservatives coming together to try and regulate newspaper publications or television shows, so why would you go after talk radio?

Maybe because talk radio actually speaks the truth of what is really going on in this world. For the most part, any and all left wing media source is paid off by millionaires of left wing organizations to tell the public what they think we should hear. They want us to just fall in line with everyone else, and not open your mind to reason or logical truth. What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Wrong.

Senator Stabenow should back down from this fight. There is no way that the people would allow something like this to happen. As she is realizing from town hall meetings across the United States, there are a great deal of us who get the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say, from what we feel is the only true media outlet, talk radio. Regulating radio would mean that efforts would be necessary, by law and constitutional right, to also regulate television broadcasts and major news publications.

I for one do not want to watch a broadcast where an anchor or editor is not saying exactly what they feel. It would become monotone, un-productive and boring. Leave it the way it is. After all, we live in a capitalist country. There is a reason that these major publications and news outlets are getting lower ratings, they aren't telling us the whole truth. And the people would rather invest their time watching Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck talk about what's really happening around the world.

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