[BC] Fairness doctrine

[Glen Kippel]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Harold Hallikainen 
<<mailto:harold at hallikainen.com>harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:
After all the recent discussion on the Fairness Doctrine, I dug up my
research notes from years ago. Here they are, with various typos. These
were prepared in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo library where the FCC
Record, Federal Register, etc. was available.

<SNIP, etc., etc., & yada-yada>

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Yikes!  Not only did the licensee have to decide whether the ads were 
"controversial," but what PART of the ads made them that way!  I 
assume that there was an opportunity for the opposition to purchase 
their own ads.  Does this mean that if someone pays for air time 
promoting one side of a "controversial" issue, that the station would 
be obligated to provide FREE air time for an opposing 
viewpoint?  It's no wonder that stations aired the likes of Arthur 
Godfrey and Don McNeil's Breakfast Club.