Fairness Doctrine Talk — Again

July 31, 2008 · Filed Under Media

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he’s joining with Nancy Pelosi to strongly support the reactivation of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Hoyer says he’s interested in “ensuring the availability of fair and balanced information to the American public.”

That’s a pretty laughable statement coming from a left-winger. What he wants to ensure is that liberals control every facet of the media. Liberals can’t stand the fact that conservatives dominate talk radio even though liberals dominate network news, print news, and most of the Internet.

No one is preventing liberals from being on the radio. If they’re able to attract listeners they’re as welcome as anyone else on the air. The problem is that the vast majority of liberal radio shows fail, because they can’t get an audience and therefore can’t get advertisers. The market dictates who has a radio program and who doesn’t. Hoyer wants to force people to listen to left-wing radio even if they don’t want to, and it’s downright un-American.

Hoyer said it’s unlikely that anything relating to the Fairness Doctrine would reach the House floor this year.