Exactly. What's disturbing is how many contemporary writers seem to believe that the "Fairness Doctrine" had anything to do with "Fairness," that it's even remotely compatible with the First Amendment, or that anything like it would be workable today.

Forcing Fox News to run strawman counterarguments to satisfy the letter of the law is not going to magically turn them into the Fair and Balanced(tm) news outlet they've always claimed to be. A better approach would be to establish and enforce a legal definition of "news" and apply deceptive trade practice law to any broadcaster who has to go to court to argue that no one takes their commentators seriously.