The Fairness Doctrine is a proposed law that would make it necessary to balance out radio broadcasts so that the general public was getting “a balanced view.”
While I am against this infringement on the freedom of speech granted to us by the Bill of Rights, it really doesn’t apply to us, with a couple of exceptions.
During sports broadcasts, any reference to a bad call by a referee would then be followed by a rebuttal by the questioned referee, who would be allowed to explain himself. Actually, this would lend an extra level of excitement to our broadcasts especially if the ref said things like “well, all you need to be a broadcaster is to have a pulse and a microphone.”
During our music programming (Real Country) we would be forced to follow, “Stand by Your Man” with something like “Coca-Cola Cowboy,” “Lying Lips Don’t Touch Mine” or “The Ballad of the Woman Who Refused to Stand by Her Man or Give Him Two Arms to Cling to.”
