Are we balzy enough to simply disobey the edict if it occurs? Our forefathers did. Perhaps this might be the impetus to virtually destroy both the networks and broadcast radio (not by bombs, but by simple abandonment). Satellite radio will perhaps come into its own. I - for one - will simply not EVER tune in to any broadcast station if “fairness” is implemented.
our forefathers “balzyness” made it possible for us to prevent such affronts to liberty from happening.
The problem is the radio stations would remove the conservative talk radio programs from their lineup if the “fairness doctrine” came back rather than book liberal talkies to balance the conservative talkies...that’s what was happening back in 1987....before it was ended....and it would happen again.
Would people fight it?
Yes, because we have the internet. People would just turn to the internet to hear their favorite talk shows.
However, without the RADIO presence, the impact would be greatly reduced, don’t you think?
I agree - I would do the same - not listen to any radio station that refused to host the conservative talk radio programs that we love.....
So that kind of protest could affect the radio station owners....but I remember when this doctrine was falling into reality back in the Reagan years .....
That was before Rush - before Sean - before the huge impact of talk radio had fully taken hold. But back then I remember the radio station owners all being intimidated into threats of removing their conservative talk radio programs from the air - IT CHILLED CONSERVATIVE TALK.
The other issue is Christian radio - which is a HUGE nad POWERFUL source of help in the electon fights every election cycle.
Programs like Focus on the Family, and Janet Parshall’s America program, D. James Kennedy’s Truths that Transform, and many others - would be also under threat to be removed from the air or be balanced (even though broadcast often by Christian broadcasters) with nonChristian programs to “balance” the Christian “point of view”.
The haters of freedom loathe such voices - especially Focus on the Family...but also many others.
They want them silenced.
And, of course, they want Free Republic shut down.