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There was nothing fair about the fairness doctrine.  We have a system in which anyone can hit the airwaves with whatever political position he or she wants and if they are interesting, they can succeed.  The fairness doctrine would require that opposing viewpoints be given equal time whether they were interesting or not.  Rather than carry one interesting show and one show which amounts to nothing more than dead air time, radio and TV stations would change their formats and not carry political programming at all.  The fairness doctrine was a crock.  It was a scheme invented by the left to force programmers to put their uninterestiing views on the air.