Argument: Fairness Doctrine applies only to controversial broadcastings

Support

“TV View; Why the Fairness Doctrine is Still Important”. New York Times. 15 Sept. 1985 – “broadcasters are not required to extend the reasonable opportunity for inconsequential issues; they are required to extend it only for controversial issues. It’s hard to understand how this impedes broadcast journalism. In fact, the Fairness Doctrine is predicated on what seem to be the most elementary rules of journalism.”