“— and bring competition back to talk radio in Washington and elsewhere.”
Elsewhere, huh? So I presume Press favors legally imposed ideological balance in academia, Hollywood, and big city newspapers? Or just in the sole medium in which conservatives have an edge?
...I presume Press favors legally imposed ideological balance in academia, Hollywood, and big city newspapers?...
Your point is well taken. If the "Fairness Doctrine" were applied to newspapers, movies, TV shows and academia, the way they would like to apply it to Talk Radio, there would be screaming like you never heard before.
However, the FD can only be applied to that area that the government controls, ie, licensed broadcast stations. Talk Radio (or AM radio for the most part) would simply disappear. Already, there are other platforms for which Talk Radio is abundantly suited, and they will prevail.
If it were not for Talk Radio, AM radio would be a thing of the past by now. In Canada, where there is no vigorous (conservative) talk radio, it is already happening. Huge AM stations, flamethrowers like CKY in Winnipeg,a 50,000 watter, are now owned by radio clubs or are simply going black.
Should the FD be enacted in such a way as to throttle Rush (forget most of the others), he'll find another venue(s) from which to reach even more listeners.