Is the Fairness Doctrine just a underhanded way of silencing talk radio?

chiquis707

It's a complete violation of the First Amendment.

average girl

It seems to me that no matter who you are or what side of the political fence you are on that this is a bad idea...if I want to listen to liberal radio then I should be able to. If I want to hear conservative views, then that should be available to me because this is America in case we have forgotten.
We should have a bigger voice than we do...

Spazzâ„¢[FTP]

I'm a liberal/moderate who doesn't like the idea

Act D

it is a way of controlling what people are allowed to hear.
and i believe is blatantly unconstitutional.

csbp029

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Quasi Moto

By George, I think he's got it!

Seems to be a lot of flap about more conservative views. I think it came from the same people who brought us political correctness. ( Yuck)

Why don't libs just start their own radio stations? We will see who tunes in. Meanwhile, CNN brow beats us with their "balanced" views.

News is one thing -Talk radio is something else.

pater47

Yes.

egg_sammash

I believe it is They had their chance and you are right, no one wanted to hear it.

After all they have all of the mainstream media but I guess they want to control it all of it.
Greedy greedy liberals.

Bryan

I definitely think that many liberals think it will. In reality what it will do is limit political commentary across the board. Big shows like Limbaugh will survive without issue, but there will not be a variety of new shows created, liberal or conservative and many marginal shows will be removed entirely. The reason behind this is because when faced with trying to implement all that the "Fairness Doctrine" requires, most content providers will choose not to provide political content at all, or will scale it down to a very limited format, rather than undertake the balancing act and notification processes required.

Bryan F

Yes. They want absolute tyranny on the airwaves, with no conservative balance to the liberal talking heads on almost every TV network. Even Fox has a good share of libs on their team (Great van Susteren and Alan Colmes are the two best known). It's not our fault that American's don't like liberal talk radio. They had a shot with "Air America" but it wasn't able to get the type of listenership that conservative talk radio got, so they went bankrupt. Why should the government force something down our throats that can't work in a free economy???

a bush family member

This country's founding fathers tried something similar 200 years ago. It didn't work.

It was called the Sedition Act and the law expired in 1801. (Another, less stronger law was made during World War One.)

Memnoch

I see nothing wrong with the part about having to inform a person or an organization that you are attacking them as for the rest of it I agree it is wrong.

Just as a side note Trent Lott is also an idiot who hates talk radio. Might want to take him into consideration with the Democrats who support this.

Rabid Frog

Many would completely shut down the other point of view if they could but that pesky little freedom of speech keeps getting in the way.

Talk radio is feared by some because they dig deep into issues, instead of skimming the surface.

Great question...

DAR

Let's see them apply it to the NY Times and ABC.

Of course it is. If it were their opinion being spouted, they would think it was just 'truth'.

Crazybird

Yes. That's exactly what they are trying to do.

bilbo22

As Rush Limbaugh always says: The Libs cant compete in the boxing ring, they need help from Big Brother.

Its not gonna work because then we will need to give Sean Hanitti at least one hour a day on Air America and Don Imus on BET network.... LOL

Leah

Yes it is. You are totally right. But it won't work, even if it is enacted. Talk radio will survive.

Whether you love it or hate it, agree or disagree, there should always be more than one view or opinion on whatever the subject matter is.

ricmon87

good

Just another step toward communism.

unrattled_snake

Yahoo is the original practitioner of censorship.

JConly

Liberals fear the power of conservative talk radio.

words_smith_4u

The fairness doctrine compells equal time for issues - a balanced report. Are you saying that talk radio is not interested in hearing both sides of an issue? Or that talk radio is majority of conservative, right-wing hosts? Are we as a culture so close minded that we don't want to hear opposing views - to try to understand? Rather only to entrench our own views?

Have we really come to that?
I personally don't see where the fairness doctrine is that bad.

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