[BC] What Next after the Fairness doctrine?

[Craig Bowman]

WOAH there Donna!  Take a deep breath and count to ten.  Can you 
possibly suggest that there will not be any change in the radio 
landscape should the Fairness Doctrine come back?  I never suggested 
there would be a ban on conservative talk radio only that any forced 
change(s) in programming will have a negative impact the bottom line!  
Some of the smaller stations are barely getting by with Rush, Sean, 
etc.  I hate to be the one to say it but the talk in the 60 and 70's was 
boring. By the mid 80's the Fairness Doctrine did not exist.  What 
happened to the wildly successful Talknet???  Where is Larry King???  
Larry's last attempt at talk radio died a terrible death because he is 
Boring.  Bruce Williams???  Ditto (oops) not compelling to say the very 
least..my friend.. Dr. Joy Brown is still on but it is just the same 
(Yawn) stuff.  In the bigger markets there were many good talkers but 
what about the rest of us?  That was my question.

Should something similar be enacted I hope it applies to Newspapers, 
Television, and Cable as well.  Now that's fairness!

Craig Bowman

Donna Halper wrote:
I find this sort of comment both puzzling and inflammatory.  There is NO 
evidence the Fairness Doctrine is coming back, despite a couple of 
congresspeople who say they'd like it.  And even if it did come back, 
there  is NO evidence it would "ban" conservative talk.  There was 
endless (and very successful) talk radio on many stations in the 60s, 
70s and into the 80s, and some of the best known talkers were righties.