Re: What the Media Reformistas Really Want

WSA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:13:06 -0000

Adam gets right to the end game of refomistas, revealing in them two of the qualities Thomas Sowell illustrated so well in his "The Vision of the Anointed," namely that:

1) Fashionable Elites believe they are better equipped than the Common Man (or God help us, some venal capitalist) to sit in judgment over what should and should not be permitted in the news business, regardless of what history and millions of consumers might have haplessly come to believe, and

2) These Fashionable Elites should be permitted to force their opinions on others within a protected environment, suffering none of the consequences their pronouncements will inevitably have on countless others.

History has amply demonstrated what happens when the press is "freed" from capitalism, and it is a dreary picture indeed.

Re: FCC’s McDowell on Fairness and Neutrality

WSA — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:33:07 -0000

Topolski Writes: "The Comcast case was about 'deregulating' the Internet — Oh, it wasn’t regulated by the government, this was actually worse — It was being regulated by a monopoly."

If Mr. Topolski truly believes that the FCC is "deregulating" the Internet by regulating the Internet, and if he truly believes that Comcast is a "monopoly," then his complete confusion may be attributable to his having been tragically miseducated about basic economics.

Oh, is this what Adam Thierer refers to as "Hippie Economics?"

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