The Fairness Doctrine
How we lost it, and why we need it back
A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the Government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.
— U.S. Supreme Court, ...
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What’s more critical that reinstating the Fairness Doctrine is breaking up present-day centralized ownership of all media into six corporations whose policies are dictated by ultra conservative executives hiding behind the deceitful, ridiculous smoke screen of “liberally biased media: “Political opinions expressed on talk radio are approaching the level of uniformity that would normally be achieved only in a totalitarian society. There is nothing fair, balanced or democratic about it.