Would Fairness Doctrine apply to Internet and how?

[kentuck]

Would there be the right to respond to attacks or stated falsehoods, if requested by the injured party?

The Fairness Doctrine helped to maintain civility when it was in effect. It was, in a way, a form of campaign finance reform. Naturally Rush Limbaugh and the Repubs would not like it. In its prior form, if a politician used your name in a statement or an attack, the station would have to give the injured party equal time upon request. Can you imagine the "equal time" it would take to respond to Limbaugh's propaganda?

I could never understand why the Democrats did not put the Fairness Doctrine back into effect when Clinton was President and we had control of the Senate and the House? If they do not re-install the Fairness Doctrine, we have no choice but to attack at every opportunity, otherwise we will be unilaterally disarming for Limbaugh and the right-wingers. The Repubs are complaining that the Dems hate Bush and personally attack him. They cannot understand. But we must understand that they have to feel the heat before they will change anything.

(A couple of posters broached this subject in another post but I think it needs mor highlight)

[Prodemsouth]

1. No, Broadcasters are licensed by the FCC, you do not have to go get

a license to start a web site. Broadcasting is a limited resource. Internet likely to fall under freedom of the press.