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On Oct 16, 6:04 pm, wrote:
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cuhulin
Between Beck and O'Reilly Fox will blow everyone out of the sky
with viewership ratings - they're an AWESOME pair!

Until the Dopeocrats fix it with the fairness doctrine.

Fairness doctrine would not take anyone off the air, only require
equal time for the other side. Fox News should not have a problem
with that if they were to actually be true to their slogan "Fair
and Balanced".

Aside from that, the doctrine only applies during election
season. Conservative talk radio (really almost all of it has been
so from the beginning many decades ago) existed coincident with
the original doctrine, with almost no legal issues. A station or
network had to pretty much specifically be 'in the tank' for a
given candidate to elicit any legal action by the Commission.
As I recall, all it took to be compliant was an open offer for
opposing view points.

Equal time. Have an hour conservative show, have a hour liberal
show. We saw how the liberals did with the AirAmerica disaster.


I don't think that's how it would work. In Los Angeles Clear Channel
owns 3 talkers: KFI, which caters to the knuckle dragging mouth
breathers; KLAC, Sports; and KTLK, which is Progressive Talk (your
Air America provides some programs, as does Jones Radio and Nova M).

In Los Angeles Clear Channel is pretty well-balanced ideologically.
On the other hand, there are many markets that are brimming with
right-wing hate radio, and nothing to counter. They really need to
balance things out, lest the people get a warped view of the world.
Hopefully, just the threat of a "Fairness Doctrine" law would be
enough to get these guys to loosen up. BTW, there never was Fairness
Doctrine legislation.
It was always an executive order.

You talk about "they". "They" otherwise known as the public don't need
you to dictate what "we" all need. Air America has failed so start your
own liberal talk syndication show if you think you can make a go of it.

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Telamon
Ventura, California