How Fair Is The Fairness Doctrine?; Credit Card Crisis; Obama-Care; The Other Side Of Desire
How Fair Is The Fairness Doctrine?
The U.S Senate passed an amendment last week that would ban an attempt to create a new Fairness Doctrine. The vote would block regulators from requiring broadcasters to give equal time to all points of view. The original doctrine was adopted as a rule by the FCC in 1949 and repealed in 1987. Is the Fairness Doctrine really an attempt to have every voice heard or is it just another way to hear what you want to hear? Larry speaks to Brian C. Anderson, editor of City Journal, and Steve Rendall of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ) to explore the details.
Credit Card Crisis
Have credit card companies been behaving more like loan sharks? In 2008, American credit card debt reached $951 billion. With the recession, more people are relying on credit cards to make ends meet. To offset losses, banks are raising interest rates and imposing penalties, further increasing the number of credit card defaults. Larry Mantle takes a look at the confusing mix of credit card practices with Nessa Feddis from the American Banking Association, and Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog.
Obama-Care
President Obama has named Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services. To assist his plans in overhauling the nation's health system, he has also named health policy veteran Nancy-Ann DeParle to head the newly created White House Office of Health Reform. Together they'll confront Obama's ambitious goal of getting every American insured. Larry Mantle talks with Gerald Kominski of UCLA, and Paul Howard of the Manhattan Institute about the details of President Obama's health plan.
The Other Side Of Desire
Imagine having a foot fetish so strong, that if you were to listen to a weather report that measured snowfall in feet, you would go crazy with sexual ecstasy. Now imagine another man who has an affinity obsession for female amputees. These are just two of the sexually charged characters Daniel Bergner writes of in his book, "The Other Side of Desire," in which he explores human attraction in the lives of four people. Bergner talks to Larry Mantle about his book and how we might begin to think differently about current notions of perversion.