I must have missed their spellbinding (tingling ?) report entitled: The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Television.
Or “The Structural Imbalance of Newspapers,” or “The Structural Imbalance of Academia,” or . . .
The thing that separates Talk Radio from Talk Television or Newspapers is the use of the public airwaves.
The Fairness Doctrine was trying to stifle opposition under the guise of fair use of the limited radio frequencies. Cable TV (not broadcast), and newspapers did not use the public airwaves, and therefore were not under the control of the government.
The government ostensibly is not trying to stifle speech, but ensure that all speech has equal access to limited airwaves, but in reality they are using the fiction of limited airwaves to stop the overwhelming popularity of Talk Radio, because their own views fail when presented on Talk Radio.
It's not a problem of the public not having access to diverse points of view. They are trying to force individual media outlets to offer all sides in order to drive them out of business, instead of recognizing that collectively, all media combined offer all points of view. It's like have a hamburger restaurant, a pizza restaurant, and a chicken restaurant that collectively satisfy the public appetite, vs. forcing all restaurants to serve hamburgers, pizza, and chicken to everyone.
-PJ