Obama Opposes Fairness Doctrine

“As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told FOXNews.com. 

As most people know, I did not vote for President Obama and disagree with him on many issues. On this, we agree. The Fairness Doctrine is censorship, plain and simple. Some people on the left are upset that they have a hard time hearing their views on the radio. This is due to a simple fact. The majority of people on the left don’t listen to talk radio. If they listen to the radio, they listen to either a music station or NPR. It is very hard to sell advertisement time when you have a very tiny listener base. The radio stations that play conservative talk shows don’t really do it for the politics, they do it for the money.

Fueling discussion, a report in the American Spectator this week said aides to Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, Calif., met last week with staff for the Federal Communications Commission to discuss ways to enact Fairness Doctrine policies. The report said Waxman was also interested in applying those standards to the Internet, which drew ridicule from supporters and opponents of the doctrine. 

This is even worse. Part of the argument for the Fairness Doctrine is that the airwaves are publicly owned and rented by the stations. Internet access and (more importantly) web space is paid for with private money. It is incredibly easy to set up a sight and post opposing view points in the internet. This is a blatant attempt at censoring opposing viewpoints and co-opting private held means of expression.