Here It Comes: Democrat Congresswoman Will Try To Bring Back The Fairness Doctrine
The liberal left in general keeps trying to tell us that nobody wants to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Yet again and again evidence surfaces to suggest that they will, in fact, try to do just that.
Rep. Anna Eshoo not only wants to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, but expand its scope to include satellite and cable television as well.
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, said Monday she will work to restore the Fairness Doctrine and have it apply to cable and satellite programming as well as radio and TV.
“I’ll work on bringing it back. I still believe in it,” Eshoo told the Daily Post in Palo Alto.
The Fairness Doctrine required TV and radio stations to balance opposing points of view. It meant that those who disagreed with the political slant of a commentator were entitled to free air time to give contrasting points of view, usually in the same time slot as the original broadcast.
The doctrine was repealed by the Reagan administration’s Federal Communications Commission in 1987, and a year later, Rush Limbaugh’s show went national, ushering in a new form of AM radio.
Conservative talk show hosts fear the doctrine will result in their programs being canceled because stations don’t want to offer large amounts of air time to opponents whose response programs probably wouldn’t get good ratings.
Eshoo said she would recommend the doctrine be applied not only to radio and TV broadcasts, but also to cable and satellite services.
“It should and will affect everyone,” she said.
She called the present system “unfair,” and said “there should be equal time for the spoken word.”
Democrats keep telling us that what they want is fairness, but the truth is that they want government control over media content. After all, the media we have now is based on what the people actually want. All radio and television content is based on ratings. If something brings in viewers/listeners it stays on the air. If it doesn’t, it goes off air. It’s as simple as that.
The liberals would, under the cover of their false notion of “fairness,” try to shove content down our throats that we don’t really want. Content like, oh I don’t know, Air America.
That liberal radio network couldn’t stand on its own two feet by bringing in listeners and making money. But under the Fairness Doctrine it would have stayed on air. Not because people actually want to listen to it, but because it was required to comply with the law.
Sound fair to you?
