Since 1987, Conservative radio has flourished, Liberal radio slowly decayed of itself, and NPR has become a good un-biased network to show different views and events of our world.

So what's the problem?

Power-hungry politicians and lame-duck liberals playing politics with "The Fairness Doctrine" to get their voice heard by force. And now that the Congress is held by Democrats, Free Speech is fair game.

What is the Fairness Doctrine? In a nutshell, the Fairness Doctrine (a unianimous agreement with no true legislation) required all broadcasters of radio to give a "fair" amount of airtime to express opinions. That was... until 1987 when it was decided unconstitutional.
"The FCC held that the doctrine had grown to inhibit rather than enhance debate and suggested that, due to the many media voices in the marketplace at the time, the doctrine was probably unconstitutional." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine)

Although it sounds "fair" to hold both voices for every issue presented, it can indirectly become commercial suicide. What if the people don't care to hear all sides of every single minute issue presented on talk radio? Well, the simple solution is that they will stop listening to it, because they dont have the time nor patience to listen to one issue with 10 viewpoints, rather than 10 issues with one viewpoint. (the only alternative is to limit 50 viewpoints to one measley sentence for one issue, as oppose to 50 comprehensive sentences with one viewpoint issue) When people tune out of the radio, advertising during the radio programs become useless and costly, so the radio station sponsors don't sponsor the station anymore. Once enough sponsors have gone, the investor of the radio station will have no choice but to give up the station.

... and to whom? Well, the only institutions who can afford to lose money by broadcasting are charities and the Government. Charities wouldn't care to spend money on stations, because broadcasting all viewpoints would be too expensive. But the Federal Government doesn't really have a limit to how much it can spend, considering it can just tax the American people, and doesn't seem to have a problem with deficit spending nowadays.

I also recall Nazi government relentlessly taking over all of the communications and using propoganda to convince the people to murder 3+million Jews in the 1930s-1940s




Here's a hypothetical preview of how our limitation of free speech will assume position under the Fairness Doctrine (limited to 13 words to conserve time for "equal" representation)...

Question: What do you think about the escalation of illegal-Mexican murder rates nationally?
Democrat: "Where are the statistics of the average murder rates nationally?It'd be worse!"
Socialist: "Well, why don't we count the rich-American murder rates, which are higher?"
African-American: "This is another right-wing attack on another minority, just like Rosa Parks."
Mexican-American: "Why are we, the Mexican-Americans, always targeted for this sort of attack?"
Asian-American: "This event does not specifically or definitively concern me in any direct way..."
Republican: "Well, this is one more reason why we should close the border now."
Green: "Someone should have given them a flower; then they would both be happy."
Nazi: "The Mexicans should have died; there would be less of the problem, right?"
Libertarian: "I'm assuming that they did this because they are upset with the government."
Communist: "This is blatently unfair; The government should kill both of them right now."

Without the Fairness Doctrine, with 130 words with one viewpoint:

Question: What do you think about the escalation of illegal-Mexican murder rates nationally?
Neal Boortz (Conservative-Libertarian): "On Saturday night a Tennessee State Trooper was shot and killed by 17-year-old Alejandro Guana and 19-year-old Orlando Garcia. It would seem that the two Hispanics were transporting drugs.
The next question is were these two Hispanic thugs in this country legally? Were they illegal aliens? Last week a 14-year veteran law enforcement officer was killed in a head-on accident as he was driving to work. You guessed it .. an illegal alien caused the accident.
Twenty-five Americans a day. That's the estimate of the death toll from the Mexican invasion. About one-half of that number from murders, the other half from traffic accidents.
That's going to change soon, though. The Democrats will soon be introducing their amnesty bill .. and George Bush will be all-to-eager to sign it."


.... which gave you more information? With the Fairness Doctrine (10 views with 13 words), or without (1 view with 130 words)?
And one more thing... doesn't NPR already cover the multiple viewpoints?

I admit, there are many radio shows, like Sean Hannidy and Rush Limbaugh, that do not...

It is mind-numb to believe this "fairness" eventually leads to a fair viewpoint. Considering the government, in the long run, would theoretically become the one sole viewpoint in the end, there will be