The Fairness Doctorine...

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I hesitate to post this, because all this does is give ideas to anti-press leaders (which in fairness, huh that word again, I consider both McCain and Obama to be), but this recent talk about the fairness doctorine has me worried.

People are always going to choose what they want to buy, or watch, or read, or listen to. Reviving the "Fairness Doctorine" in communicaitons would force many outlets to make sure time is equal. On the surface that seems okay, but lets look a little deeper.

I know the most common argument against the Fairness Doctorine is the trappings in finding the mythical most neutral person in the world to arbitrate this (by the way this person hangs out with Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, and all the Super Bowl trophies the Buffalo Bills have won). However I'm going to take a different look at this.

If the goverment gets to control who says what when on the media and that's percieved as fair, does it also seem fair if the government...

1) Forces you to buy an Ann Coulter book for every Al Franken book you want to buy...
2) Forces you to buy a ticket for "W" with every ticket for "An American Carol"...
3) Forces you to watch "Davey and Golaith" after you watch "Family Guy"
4) Forces you to watch Hannity after watching Olberjerkoff
5) Regulate your computer so you spend equal time on homework and facebook (now I have your attention)
6) Forces you to watch "Gary Unmarried" after watching "How I Met Your Mother" (this one is not really partisan, but only one of these shows is of legen-wait-for-it-dary quality).

I know nobody is talking about doing these thing (yet), and obviously some of them are not possible. But I would like any supporter of the Fariness Doctorine to explain to me what the moral difference is that justifies forcing the media to suddenly make sure everything is equal and forcing any of the changes on the list above.

My contention is whatever argument you can make for the Fairness Doctorine you can make for any of the things on my list.

In a sense that's what Conservativeuncensored is about, becuase the media people want to watch will be forced into media they don't want to watch. The government can get away with this because they own all the licensenes. But they don't own the internet (yet). Enjoy conservativeunsensored.com, before somebody in the goverment tries to force me to automatically redirect you to moveon.org when you're navigate away.