I love you Rebel.
Even though I'm more liberal than some, I don't feel it's the government's responsibility to "force" viewpoints upon everyone. There's plenty of access to conservative vs liberal viewpoints. The "fairness doctrine" is retarded at this point.
I agree and I told someone on my other site, who said it's about the public owning the airwaves, they can buy their own station. There are two conservative stations here. AM 580 and AM 1630. ...and a WHOLE lotta ****ing static between. 1630 had Colmes on, but no one listened. NO ONE. Are sponsors going to advertise on a program that calls them evil? Are people going to listen to people that constantly talk about how ****ed up this country is? NO! Rush, et. al. are entertaining. I don't listen that often, but I DO listen to the most entertaining sumbitch on radio, Neal Boortz, a Libertarian, religiously.
This is now about fairness. It's about control and shutting the opposition up. I've been in the Seattle market. The Newark market. The NYC market. The Dallas market. There are PLENTY of stations they could purchase. They tried....with Air America. Didn't work out too well.