Time for a 21st Century Fairness Doctrine [View all]

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Since the Fairness Doctrine was shit canned our national media has literally been dominated by right wing racists, drug addicts, and degenerate sex perverts. It's long since time the public take back control of the public airwaves for the benefit of the public who owns them. Not the corporate interests who enable racists, drug addicts, and sex perverts as long as they garner ratings and serve their interests exclusively.

The solution is surprisingly simple. Just treat the news media like churches. Completely tax free with one provision. To qualify for tax exempt status you must devote 15% of your airtime/page space to opposing views from responsible parties.

This would be completely voluntary. Responsible news organizations not afraid of peer and public review would flourish. Irresponsible news organizations would either not participate and suffer financially or participate and have their coverage and opinions criticized in their own medium.

It's a win win for everybody. Encourages quality journalism. Encourages business and job creation. Covers both print and broadcast journalism. Addresses both public airways, cable, and internet mediums. Completely voluntary so no Constitutional issues. Any news media currently operating can operate as they always have. If you like your corporate dominated news media, you can keep your corporate dominated news media. For the rest of us there will be will be a public option.