Reply #27: Here We Go Again...The "Fairness Doctrine" Wasn't About Fairness...

[KharmaTrain]

It was put in place to enable ALL candidates to buy broadcast advertising...preventing one party from freezing out the other...or a broadcast owner from catering to the party of his choice. It also applied to public service programming that was mandated...those rules were tossed as part of "deregulation". It NEVER covered hate radio that claims to be "entertainment" and news coverage.

The ramifications of this latest SCOTUS travesty will benefit broadcasters as they will now be able to play those games...charge high rates (that will drive up campaign costs) and be a windfall to corporations like Sinclair and Cheap Channel that bought and paid for "deregulation"...destroying local broadcasting and with it the diversity of voices.

Want to fix broadcasting? Revise or repeal Telcom '96 that opened the door to the corporates buying up the largest broadcast operations and impose "entertainers" like rushbo all over the country...cheap programming replacing hiring local talent.

Oh...and if you try this, be assured that any new "Fairness Doctrine" would be challenged in court as a violation of free speech...and guess where it would end up...back with the same "justices" who just sold our country down the corporate river.