Funny how the Left self-labels itself and its stuff with positive-sounding words.
We've all heard the meaningless, misleading Leftist self-labelling word "progressive". As if simply calling oneself and one's stuff "progressive" makes it so.
We know that the Chinese Communist regime calls its army the "Peoples' Liberation Army", notwithstanding that the Chinese People haven't been "liberated" by them and, in fact, are tyrannized by them!
We know that North Korea ironically uses "Democratic" in its official national name, though it certainly isn't democratic by any standard.
And when Leftists say something is "fair", it's highly unlikely to be. Anyone who's been bullied by "fair" Left-wing crap knows that the Left isn't fair. Really, when Leftists say "fair", they actually mean "Fair for me, not for you, sucker!"
Commentary here.
Only the Left would have the gall to claim that forcing non-Leftists to grant Leftists equal talk time is "fair". After all, does anyone believe that Leftists would also be forced by their own people to grant equal talk time to those whom they hate and want to shut up? Never happen, and we know this. That, after all, is the essence of the Left: Double standards; Do as I say, not as I do; The rules and laws apply to you, not to me, and if you don't like that, too bad, for that's the way it is, because it's fair to so-and-so, and that's all that matters, being fair to so-and-so, to hell with you and yours...
We know that the big-money mainstream media is anything but fair and balanced, with notable exceptions, such as FOX News (funny how Leftists hate fairness and balance if it includes things that they don't like and which tend to expose their agenda and pose inconveniences and roadblocks thereto, or which provide an alternative viewpoint for voters to consider, which the Left doesn't want them to consider at all). We know from watching/reading the big-money media that it's biased and slanted largely leftwards, even if it allows some expression by non-Leftists. It's all in the final presentation, you see- they might put on a show of "fairness and balance", but they manipulate the final messaging-package so as to favor the Left's agenda and spin and diminish/downplay that of the non-Left.
The last thing Americans need is the state telling them how to run their media outlets. After all, this isn't a totalitarian nation we're talking about- it's supposed to be a nation founded on the principle of liberty and freedom of expression, not on the doctrine of what the Leftist-dominated state apparatus claims to be "fair" or "equitable". Allowing the Leftist-dominated state apparatus to "regulate" ("dictate" might be a better description, for in actual practice, we know full well that those liberal fascists tend to get overzealous and act like dictators or brownshirts, etc.).
Does anyone really believe that the Left doesn't already have at least an equally powerful voice? After all, take the major media outlets, the main TV networks, the major newspapers like the New York Times, take, even, the educational system and the courts, which are dominated by ideologically hellbent Leftists pushing the Leftist agenda wherever, whenever possible. America certainly doesn't need to give the Left an even more powerful voice, via bullying and jackbooting non-Leftists who happen to have a large audience for their media outlets, something that the Left can't stand, as the Left, after all, wants to control all messaging being disseminated to the population at large. This is how the Left achieves its thought-and-behavior-control goals. We know this. We don't need the Leftist media to tell us whether it's true or not... as if they're going to admit that they have this agenda, for such admission would be counterproductive thereto. We just know it. And they know that we do, and they want to prevent any more people from finding out about it, too. Hence their fascist intent, lyingly sugarcoated with the word "fairness".
We can't trust the Left to be "fair", because we know they aren't!
God help America, for now she has a Hard-Left President-Elect who's already obviously unbearably anxious to impose his radical agenda on Americans against their will, not wanting to even wait until he's constitutionally in power (as if he's constitutionally even eligible to be President, as it's not clear, not proven, that he's American-born as required, but that's another story)...
It's going to be a long, difficult four years for Americans, I'm afraid... but at least those who foolishly voted for Obama when they ought've known better will learn their lesson the hard way.