Fairness Doctrine: Diarist potatohead pushes camel through eye of needle

A well written and reasoned diary that took a long time to read due to constantly stopping to digest what was written regarding Net Neutrality, Media Consolidation and a media Fairness Doctrine. Kudos to diarist potatohead.
Excerpt:
We've got media ownership problems. Too many venues are owned by too few. That's inhibiting the normally more robust competition between programming forms and ideologies. This is the primary reason why progressive / liberal / independent talk isn't growing at the rate it should.
Why not focus on that then? It's not like the two are exclusive, or bound together. It's completely possible to make a strong case for less media ownership consolidation, without having to also tie a new fairness doctrine to it.

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The problem becomes then, "what is fair?". Do we assign a committee, what are the legal tests, who qualifies them, are minority views included, and it goes on and on and on.
This isn't something we can just pass the "level the playing field law" to fix, because the motivation to chill speech we don't like runs high with all of us, meaning if we start down that road, a lot of valid speech will be chilled.
As always,
BB

Fairness Doctrine (continued discussion)
by potatohead
Sat Nov 15, 2008 at 03:49:38 PM PST
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/15/18111/561/471/661598