The Fairness Doctrine

True. You have to have a license from the FCC to broadcast. You don't need a license to publish a newspaper or a Web site.

 

I think it's interesting that right-wing radio hosts object to the concept of "fair & balanced."

 

The original justification for the Fairness Doctrine was the scarcity of radio frequencies available. I would posit that it is just as difficult to purchase a printing press that can easily print the number of newspapers needed to reach an equivalent audience as most radio frequencies.

 

C'mon, Your Holiness, if you want to make a free speech argument on this, make an honest one. You know as well as I do that the Fairness Doctrine was a regulation of the FCC and, therefore, could not apply to any medium not regulated by that body, like print or the Internet. "What if"'s have no bearing here.