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The fairness doctrine is another way of saying censorship. Of course you liberals always say no but the bottom line is that it is. Here is how it works. Refute it if you can.

A person owns a radio station. They need to get advertisers to pay for air time. The amount that they can charge for the advertising is directly related to the ratings on any particular show. So the most popular shows get the bigger amounts in advertising. A talk show stations changes hosts if their ratings drop below a certain level. They will then try to get someone that will generate better ratings. This is a fact of life that Rush Limbaugh lived with as he went from station to station in his early career. He even quit radio for a while.

The station has a line up of several conservative talk shows because every time a liberal is put on the ratings go in the cellar. Now along comes the Fairness Doctrine and for every conservative show the government now says they have to have a counterbalance. So they put on liberals to equal the conservatives. Soon the station is running in red ink. The liberals generate very little revenue. Probably a third of the conservative ones. They try other liberals with the same results. At least 30% of their revenue is gone. Is the government going to make up the difference in revenue? I bet not since liberals want the conservatives off the air. That is what it is all about.

So what do they do? They can quit the business or switch formats to some sort of music or put on things like how to shows. The only thing for sure is that there will be NO political talk. Just what liberals want.

Christian stations are also iafraid it will be applied to them. So they will have to shut down rather than put on atheists talk for each our of Christian talk.

Tell me how this is not censorship. This is the reality of radio economics.

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