What is the "Fairness Doctrine"?
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The fairness doctrine does NOT specify equal time be given to both sides of an issue.
Also the FCC did not have to enforce it, but they could in some cases.
And finally it was abolished in 1987 by the FCC, so broadcast media outlets do not have to follow any such rule.
I believe that with the wide variety of different news sources today it is obsolete. The rule was originally intended to affect markets with limited news access, such as an area with only one TV station.
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I think Wikipedia has a pretty good discussion of this.
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The Fairness Doctrine is a trick by the political left to try and silence right wing talk radio in the name of "fairness." It's true that radio's top successful talk shows are all providing a conservative point of view. However, the liberal point of view has been tried over and over and the public does not support it. Witness the failure of Air America to gain any real listenership. And the public has to pay for liberal-oriented PBS Radio. There is nothing stopping any show from belng popular as the media companies are capitalists and will run whatever makes money. So, the political left, which used to be the party of "I don't agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" party, is now seeking to silence opinions they find contrary to theirs.
Public airwaves include more than just radio. There is television as well. ABC, NBC, CBS are all liberal-leaning. On cable there is CNN and MSNBC to counter Fox News, what some believe is a conservative-oriented network.
Besides TV and radio, the vast numbers of newspapers, film, music, and stage are politically liberal. And let's not get started on our education system, but that's another story.
And then there is the web. It's everything, as it should be, and what's interesting gets read and what is not does not. That's the way radio should be.
So Talk Radio is one small part of the entire media that serves our country. It's the only one in which conservatism rules. And that is the reason for the Fairness Doctrine: to silience the one outlet that is working for conservatives.
There are many articles at the moment regarding the Fairness Doctrine as it is currently being pushed hard by several prominent democrats. You can read dozens of recent articles, seemingly coming up on a daily basis with this search:
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/?s=Fairness+Doctrine