Fairness for Fridays

It pains me to say that the gentlemen at http://www.itsfirstfriday.com/ are well studied. However, their interpretations and ignorance is what gets to me. Their attacks on Progressive Democrats, and Liberals, and blind support for the Conservative agenda is shortsighted at best. Take their interpretation of the Fairness Doctrine, they call it an assault on free specch. Introduced in the late 1940's, it profesed that broadcast companies were liscensed to be public trustees, which with all of the "red state and blue state" rhetoric, station owners would provide many opinions on controversial issues. The "dude" as he chooses to refer to himself on their podcast refuses to acknowledge that this Doctrine was within the rules of the 1937 Communications Act in article 315. When the Reagan Administration dissolved the doctrine in 1985, we began to see the rise of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk, and talk radio began it's darkest days. The Roger Ailes funded propaganda hot-air,oxycotin poppin machine began it's long life. With that we saw, huge companies buying up entire markets to promote their agenda. The right argues that talk radio is market driven, and it's the buyers choice. Wrong again "Dude"! If one comapny owns the majority of the high wattage stations in a market with one agenda, then that is a monopoly, not consumer interest. Elements of the Fairness Doctrine should be put back into legislation, and enforced by the FCC in all major markets to provide "fair and balanced" interests, and checks and balances. Oh, and by the way, I believe it's Mike Malloy who has earned awards in major markets like New York and Chicago, not Druggy Limbaugh....