Originally Posted by Matt L

I don't know what to think of the Fairness Doctrine, but it speaks to a problem that I have with on-air media.

That problem is, the airwaves are public, but are sold to private enterprise for a song (this happens with other public resources). The public should benefit most. I'm not sure that regular radio shows (like Rush, for example) need to be balanced, but I think that irregular programming (like paid political ads) probably should be. Actually, I think that all political ads should be free, as a cost of doing business; of course, the can of worms that this opens is huge as well.

However, allowing a fickle congress to set the rules for each station also sounds like a really bad situation.