Tune In To The NRA Channel?

John Kerry has written a letter to the FCC urging them to deny the NRA the ability to purchase a media outlet so as to get the news organization exemption from campaign finance laws.

If the NRA wants to start the NRA Channel and wants to run a news program that presents news from the gun lobby's point of view, they should be able to do that. That is free speech. John Kerry, nor anybody else, has the right or ability to determine what is or is not news. News, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

If the NRA wants to run ads on network TV or in national newspapers endorsing one candidate or attacking another, they should play by the same rules as everyone else. That is fair. But if they want to purchase a media outlet of their own for the same purpose, they should be allowed to do so without hinderance. After all, if someone tunes into the NRA Channel they should have a reasonable expectation of hearing the NRA party line. They have the option of not ever turning that station on.

There is a difference between an ad slamming John Kerry during Everybody Loves Raymond, on network TV where you have tuned in for (hopefully) humor and an ad slamming John Kerry during Gun World Daily News on the NRA Channel, where you have tuned specifically to hear the NRA message.

Sorry, Kerry, but the NRA Channel should be (in my opinion) a go.