Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Will the Fairness Doctrine also include conversation police? ?

Personally I look at the Fairness Doctrine not so much in a free speech light, but rather as a restriction of free trade. In essence it says that station owners cannot just pick content which sells, but that they must also provide counter content regardless of whether such content is desired in a particular market. I heard one of the most telling statements made by a liberal on the radio yesterday in regards to this issue. The question was basically why should content which has been proved not in demand be forced? The answer was essentially that if one host doesn't sell then the station must keep putting liberal hosts on until they find which does sell. Basically you will force this content until it is accepted. I have found that many people do not understand the real intent of re-instituting the Fairness Doctrine. It is not to increase liberal content, but rather to reduce conservative content. They know that these program directors are not going to take the steps to make everything even, instead they will just remove controversial content in favor of other less restrictive programming (i.e music, sports, etc.). This is a restriction of free trade because it creates a situation where you cannot program what you want on your station freely.

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