The Fairness Doctrine
The Empire Tries to Strike Back
by Ian Mosley
After suffering a humiliating defeat in which tremendous pressure from the public forced the Senate to kill their own Amnesty Bill, a few Senators have begun talking about creating a new law to muzzle talk radio. The Fairness Doctrine was the law of the land in the past. It forced talk radio to provide equal time for alternate political views. The Fairness Doctrine was revoked shortly before Rush Limbaugh began his career. Once it was gone, ordinary Americans could tune into whatever talk radio they wanted to hear, and a wide range of right-wing and libertarian talk radio shows sprang up and prospered, much to the alarm of the liberals.
As soon as Limbaugh’s career began to take off, the left-liberal politicians have lobbied to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and silence the predominantly conservative talk radio, especially such hosts as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. The liberals have always hated talk radio because it reveals one of their dirty little secrets: that the people of this country are conservative, not liberal, and that the people of this country DO NOT WANT liberals in power and do not trust liberals with power. (more…)