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In reply to the discussion: Bring back the fairness doctrine [View all]anoNY42
(670 posts)If Trump is elected President, then there WILL be a billionaire in charge of what gets heard.
You apparently prefer the Republican Congress and President Trump making the decisions.
"The gov't make rules about how information is presented in order to make the presentations equitable. It is an arbitrator of the rules of the game."
That sounds so simple, and it is. In fact, it is simplistic! Naive even! Will the government rules dictate that every show must have a "republican" and a "democrat" to give the parties positions on each topic? What about other parties? What about foreigners and their viewpoints? What about distinct groups like Jews and Hispanics, whose views may not coincide with the two major parties?
Or if there is a story about some scientific discovery, will we need to have another scientist on the program who disagrees with the discovery? One creationist for every evolutionary biologist? President Ted Cruz might just make that rule!
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