Fairness Doctrine, is it really about fairness?

Question

Doesn't anybody have the right to start a radio talk show with whatever political views they want to cover? Would a fairness doctrine force the starting of 3 major conservative TV networks to counter ABC, NBC, and CBS?

Answer 1

No it would force existing shows to give equal time to opposing ideas.
It is a form of censorship and a sneaky way for libs to try to get their message out at someone Else's expense.

If you don't like what ever is on the station you are listening to just change the station or channel.

Air America is falling on its face because they can't get sponsors because they have crappy marketing.

Have you ever noticed how much quicker you can sell your old car if you wash it BEFORE you put the for sale sign on it.
Might even git more money also.

Very few want to hear the rantings of that Fat Rosie woman but someone else could use a different tact and have a better response.

Answer 2

The answer to your second question is, NO, anybody can't just start a radio talk show. You have to have access to a designated frequency. Frequencies are controlled by licenses, because if anybody could broadcast on any frequency, then our airwaves would be chaos. This results in the government licensing and therefore restricting airwave usage to establish order and allow broadcasts to be usable. There are only so many slices of the airwaves, and that is why their once was a fairness doctrine on television network coverage, back when available technology restricted most areas to three television channels. The establishment of cable eliminated the need for the fairness doctrine, because there were then enough channels to give the public the ability to choose what they would watch.

Before jumping off the gun and believing what ever nonsense some right wing radio hack spewed out, you people should do a little research. This is where neocons come from.

By the way, as a liberal, I haven't seen a liberal based opinion coming out of a television in a long time. I hear a lot of garbage that is dressed up as a liberal opinion, to make liberals look bad, but nothing that expresses an honest liberal position anymore. It all sounds like fox news to me, maybe the others are a little bit fox lite.

Answer 3

The Fairness Doctrine is about shutting up people that say things the government doesn't want said.

If it can silence a critic of something, then it could also be used to silence favorable articles about that something.

The idiocy of this measure is that the proponents of it presume that the current government will always be the current government. They fail to foresee the possibility that this tool might be used against themselves.

I don't care if one is a liberal, conservative, or libertarian, if you think the "fairness doctrine" is a good idea, I think you must be a fool.

Answer 4

The fairness doctrine is about censorship

Answer 5

If it is wrong for the government to tell media what they CANNOT say (censorship), then it is equally wrong for government to tell media what they MUST say ("fairness doctrine").

Answer 6

it might have a silver lining, ABC CBS NBC and CNN would have to mimic fox news ..... fair and balanced



that should piss off a few libs