I think you are wrong. I think Durbin’s bill would allow & encourage *equal time* for Dimwits on conservative talk stations, such as every local station Rush & Co. is on.
But ‘equal time’ for the left on radio (though not for the right on television) is the ‘fairness doctrine’ that the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to kill. I was responding to the other tactic: ‘localism’. The broadcast industry is not going to sit on its hands an be told ‘no syndicated national programming’ without a fight, so I think ‘localism’ is less of a threat to ‘our’ media than some would make it out to be.