Talk radio will not be ended by the Fairness Doctrine it will just move to media not controlled by the Fairness Doctrine such as satellite radio, the Internet or even overseas short wave stations and powerful AM radio stations in Canada or Mexico. I don’t think the millions who regularly listen to talk radio on local stations will be too happy when their local stations are reduced to broadcasting cooking shows and informercials and they have to go to the equivalent of Radio Free America to get uncensored news from the other side of the Obama Curtain.
I have spoken to some leftist journalists and they say the Fairness Doctrine is impossible to design in such a way that it doesn’t hurt news programs. They may try to implement the “Truth Doctrine” where they make it easier to sue people for telling “lies” in the public arena. That would have a chilling effect that would work just as well.
Nor will the station owners when they find they can not get local businesses to buy commercial time.