Fairness Doctrine

Is the fairness doctrine out of date. I believe the answer to that question is simple; yes it is very out of date.

In today’s society when you have a variety of viewpoints every where you look and from everything you hear, it is hard to believe that you can’t find someone who you agree with. For the government to believe that they need to step in and mandate what people are watching and listening to is completely absurd. Just because you disagree with what someone says does not mean that it is wrong, and if you believe that then you are in for a rude awakening later on in life.

We live in a society that is based on free expression; people are allowed to do and say almost anything they want as long as it does not physically harm another person. For someone to believe that what you are listening to controls how you think is just dumb. People watch television to help make them more informed on the issues.

In today’s age the Fairness Doctrine would just be idiotic. There are laws in place that already try and mandate what people can watch, in the form of must carry stations, and these stations suffer greatly because it is very hard to get a large amount of the population to watch them.

Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would only decrease the amount of different ideas people can hear, not increase them.