Brenda Ann wrote:
"dave" wrote in message
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Baloney, people reading this news group were not born yesterday. I
remember the way things were before and after the "unfairness doctrine"
was enforced. For some reason you got the left point of view and that was
it. I could not stand listening to talk radio with the liberals in
control as a right wringer calling in would get shouted down by the host.
Basically people that called in got the same treatment from the hosts as
the liberal assholes that spew their crap on Usenet do here today. The
same old liberal lying crap said over and over like that will make it
true. Well keep dreaming that the "unfairness doctrine" will make a
comeback as it is the only chance you got to fool people into believing
the liberal lie.

What ARE you talking about? Give a concrete example. Hell, Limbaugh
started during the era of the Fairness Doctrine. What about Joe Pyne?
Morton Downey Junior? Wally George? etc?

I'm plenty old enough to remember the days of the old Fairness Doctrine, and
it NEVER applied to talk radio at all. It applied to stations that would
give free air time to stump for a political candidate or cause, and
(supposedly) required them to give free air time to an opposing opinion. As
far as talkers, most of the ones I remember from my youth were conservatives
like Ira Blue and Herb Jepko (well, they were conservatives at the time,
nowadays, they'd be considered moderates). Liberal talkers, as today, were
fairly scarce, and usually, like today, stuck on small (the one in Portland
at the time, KKEY, was a 1KW daytimer) stations.

And of course the ones that think that a revived 'doctrine' would affect
religious programming have a screw loose. All during the time of the
doctrine, there was abundant religious programming. Most every station had
some sort of religious programming on Sundays, and some programs like Garner
Ted Armstrong that ran nightly. This along with most cities over 100,000
population having at least one dedicated Christian radio station. Not only
are nearly all of those stations still on the air, and have been in many
cases for over 50 years, but most cities have added additional AM, FM, LPFM
and even television stations.

A revised doctrine *MIGHT* affect Fox News and MSNBC by requiring them to
have actual opposing viewpoints up against the likes of Sean Hannity and
Keith Olbermann, but I really doubt it. I suspect it would, as in the days
of yore, apply only to campaigns and campaign issues.


Cable TV is exempt from most FCC content restrictions. A new Fairness
Doctrine would only apply to over-the-air broadcasts via the publicly
owned airwaves.