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Originally Posted by [Phill]
I skimmed the wiki page on it.
Suppose you are a radio broadcasting executive. You can put on music, sports, or talk shows. Only if you put on talk shows then you are required to run infomercials for free. Do you see how that tax makes running talk shows far less attractive?
Right wing talk radio sells, left wing talk radio does not. Under the fairness doctrine, in order to carry a show like Rush, a station would have to offer contrasting viewpoints. Since non right wing talk radio doesn't sell, the result is no more Rush.
The Internet has completely obsoleted the usefulness of the fairness doctrine. All that's left is the censorship part.