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To: epicure who wrote (68550)	5/26/2008 8:00:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543578

If enforced equally it wouldn't preferentially silence anyone, but it would tend to decrease public political discussion in general. If some radio or TV show wants to express some idea or give air time to some person who is know to have a particular political slant, it will be less likely to do so if it has to give the same amount of air time to some opposite viewpoint. Than there is the issue of possible bias in applying the law. And the issue of determining what "the other side" is, when many issues aren't simply binary. And there is the point that conservative slanted media outlets tend to be expressly conservative (maybe Fox News is an exception, with a tilt to the conservatives, but officially "fair and balanced"), so they would probably be required to provide some liberal and/or Democratic, "equal time", while many liberally slanted media outlets call themselves objective rather than liberally slanted. And finally there is the general concern about any additional government control or limitations or impositions on the public debate.