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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (440045)12/12/2008 4:00:14 PM
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>>The Fairness doctrine didn't require equal time.

No, it doesn't -- but effectively, that's what the enforcement of it means. If a radio station, who depends on the FCC's blessing to continue its very existence, does NOT provide equal time, it leaves itself open to attack from the FCC who can cut it off at the knees, at will. So, no sensible radio broadcaster is going to air Limbaugh then Hannity without digging up 6 hours a day of "offsetting" liberal claptrap.

While the letter of the law does not require equal time, pragmatically, that's precisely what it does.
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