Your take on the fairness doctrine is exaggerated and inoccrect, and seems based mostly on the howls coming from the right.  To call it "filth" is beyond the pale. In fact, it is an excellent idea that should be reinstated, with some adjustments. Because of your extreme language, I can't tip you.

This is pure crap:

I cannot understand how even today, some supposed "Democrats" claim to support this revolting piece of anti-free speech filth), Justice Brennan wrote that the "chilling" doctrine, contrary to its stated Orwellian purpose, had "the net effect of reducing rather than enhancing speech."  Well of course it did.  Any time a news source, through their own rules or through outside pressure, tries to define "fairness" as being equally positive or negative to both sides, regardless of facts, it is ironically, by definition, holding a less balanced and less neutral point of view than if they were to just report the truth.  

It's "your truth" you want reported. You seek an echo chamber in the MSM, as it is here, at times.  You seek to impose your own bias and call it "truth."

No thanks.  I'll take democracy and the clash of views.  I'll take the messiness of a contested truth.