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The "fairness doctrine' was one-sided all the way. Don't wish it back or pretend it will benefit conservatives. It won't.

A requirement for "fairness" presumes objective judgement of "bias." But then, if the government can be trusted to be objective then the First Amendment is absurd. Which is precisely what, in their heart of hearts, "liberals" believe.
And honest reading of the First Amendment would tell you to expect that journalism is politics. And that, all protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, that judgement applies to the front page, not merely to the editorial page. Considering that
Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin
it is absurd to think that news can be objective, even with the best of intentions. The First Amemdment presumes a public which understands that
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
The bias of "objective" journalism is its presumption that it can promote journalism above the provision of food, clothing, shelter, security, and fuel and yet be "unbiased." In fact of course,
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

By functioning as presumptuous critics, journalists promote the socialistic agenda because socialism is nothing more that criticism of capitalists. When the socialist attains power, he becomes paralyzed by the fear of failure and criticism, and therefore makes progress impossible. Yet the journalist will call such people "progressive."