WASHINGTON – WND founder Joseph Farah fills in, again, today for nationally syndicated radio talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy – renewing a challenge to columnist Bill Press to debate the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.”
Farah will be coming across the airwaves live from the Radio America studios here from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Eastern Time on your local stations, XM and free streaming/podcasting at RadioAmerica. You can call into the live feed at 1-800-GGLIDDY.
Yesterday, Farah invited Bill Press to join him in the program’s third hour to explain why a talk-show host and media celebrity would advocate new government regulation of the broadcast industry. Press never responded to invitation.
“This is very strange, coming from Bill Press,” says Farah. “Here is a guy passionately arguing that we need more ‘fairness’ and ‘balance’ and diversity of opinion on talk radio who declines to take up the challenge to debate one of the hottest issues of the day. Here was an opportunity for Press to get his views out there in a lively but respectful debate forum – without government mandate – and he chickened out. Let’s give him another day.”
Press was in the news last week when he urged Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, to hold Senate hearings on the reintroduction of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” He also penned an apologia of government regulation of talk radio for the op-ed pages of the Sunday Washington Post.
While known primarily for his media work, Press served as chairman of the California Democratic Party for three years
Farah, himself a frequent guest on the Liddy show, hosted his own nationally syndicated talk show for three years. Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND, the world’s leading independent Internet news source.
In addition, Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best-sellers in the last five years.
Joseph Farah made a name for himself with traditional daily newspapers prior to his founding of WorldNetDaily – running the Sacramento Union, directing the news operation of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for six years and serving as editor in chief of a group of California dailies and weeklies. He has written for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, National Review, TV Guide, Reason, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and a host of other national, international and regional publications.
Farah’s books include “Stop The Presses: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution” and “Taking America Back,” first published in 2003 and again in paperback in 2005.
He has written or collaborated on more than a dozen others, including Rush Limbaugh’s 1994 No. 1 best-seller “See, I Told You So.”
Farah’s many journalism awards include honors for reporting to writing headlines to honesty and courage in journalism to editing and newspaper design.
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