But when it comes to the Fairness Doctrine, I couldn't agree with them more.
The conventional wisdom is that Rush's success depended on the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
It means debates over union card checks and the Fairness Doctrine will at least get a public airing.
The Fairness Doctrine is an anachronistic policy that, with the abundance of choices on radio today, is entirely unnecessary.
Contrary to what some people would have us believe today, the Fairness Doctrine was primarily an issue on TV, since radio didn't have much talk.
In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.
Felons may also get the right to vote nationwide, while the Fairness Doctrine is likely to be reimposed either by Congress or the Obama FCC.
Policy makers who introduced the Fairness Doctrine were worried that crafty special interests could overwhelm the airwaves with one-sided propaganda and tilt elections, sway public sentiment or foment civil unrest.
Conservative talk radio has worked itself into a tizzy lately over the rumored revival of the Fairness Doctrine -- the FCC policy that sought to enforce balanced discussion on the nation's airwaves.
You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.
In fact, in 1997, and at a time when public opinion was much more favorable toward the press than it is now, a Harris Poll conducted for the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that 84% of the public favored a government "fairness doctrine" requiring equal treatment of all sides in controversies, while 70% believed that courts should impose fines for "biased or inaccurate" journalism.
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