Talk Radio's Last Stand?

Media is a Plural by Rory O'Connor | Jun. 12, 2008 (Opinion)

Leading hard-right conservatives, led by their talk radio "shock jock" shock troops, have been worrying aloud about the supposed return of the long-defunct Fairness Doctrine ever since their stunning success last year in defeating bi-partisan immigration reform. The latest salvo is the Newsmax report, headlined "Battle for Talk Radio: Powerful Foes Want to End the Gabfest," which cleverly combines the usual talk radio tropes of pugnacity and victimization. Full Story »

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 by Randy Morrow - Oct. 1, 2008

Good article about some in talk radio trying to create worry about the return of the "Fairness Doctrine." It is not going to happen. Radio is a business out to make a profit, at the moment the "wing nuts" make a profit, the industry would be afraid that they would have to program competing views (which they are afraid would not be profitable) if the doctrine were reinstated. That profit motive will drive tremendous opposition to "equal time" type measures and keep the "Fairness Doctrine" in the history books.

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