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One reason this doctrine is stupid (how fitting is that):
If the Conservatives willing to listen to Rush want to stick with the old technology of radio ... let them. Hell, let them even continue to watch the brain melting TV (I watch too much myself). The funny thing is that the far left are forgetting one really good fact, guess who uses the net more? You think Obama won because of all the TV and radio coverage? Most of his campaign was done online. Different types of people use different media outlets ... it just happens that more people who like Rush and the others listen to radio, while more of us who don't are using the net. TV is about middle. Really, media shows or airs what gets ratings, that is how they get the money to stay open. If you want the programming to add something, get a bunch of people to call into the station itself and tell them, if there is enough of a demand they will air it so they can increase their profits.
Yes, Rush is a jerk, but if that's what people who listen to those stations want then the station would be more wrong if they replaced him. I never listen to the radio anyway, and online I can find hundreds of sites that cater to my views (if I wanted to I could go there).
This answers nohting about what the fairness doctrine covers.
What harm would the law do any side?
Forcing someone to sacrifice ratings just to appease a small group is like telling a grocery store they have to give away half their food just because one person is starving.
Nope it is nothing like that at all.
It would be more like forcing the store not to sell rotten food.