This is already NOT the America the founders envisioned,
and it’s fixing to get a whole lot worse.
I’ve heard a big part of their plan would be for more local programming on radio stations.
If you think about the major talk radio stations in your area, I bet most of them have few local talk shows, but mostly broadcast national shows, such as Rush, Hannity, Lars Larson, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, etc. I’ve heard that they want to have more local programming on radio stations, which would in effect squeeze out some of the national shows. The line-ups of talk stations in my area consists of national shows all day long, except for morning drive, when a couple stations have a local talk show.
My question is — how did the fairness doctrine work back in the old days? I know that Rush was the first big nationally syndicated talker, and he went national in 1988, a year after the old fairness doctrine was repealed. But there were talk shows before that. Did they avoid politics and opinions back then?