“Equal time” always ended up as:
1. Free air time for Democrats.
2. Free air time for Democrats and a token ‘Republican’ who was pre-scripted to be the patsy.
3. Free air time for the craziest person whose philosophy could even vaguely be considered or conflated to on the “right” - actual Nazis, KKK members, that sort of thing so Democrats could have their time without effective sane opposition.
4. More free air time for Democrats and actual Republican content somehow never gets on the air.
In other words, it accomplished the opposite of what was claimed and it made even conservative-leaning media outlets have to carry loonie leftist crap.
Google “Fairness Doctrine Failure.” It is a good thing that the Fairness Doctrine was taken out back and shot a number of years ago.
You are probably right, particularity seeing how what passes for a ‘conservative’ on CNN often enough seems like someone hand picked to fail. The truth is in the market place of ideas the person who controls the form can and does dictate the course of the battle.
For generations that was the left who controlled almost all forums with their overwhelming domination of broadcast and print mediums. With fox news and talk radio Conservatives made a consented effort to enter the space with a great deal of success but even there, the left is finding ways to take over and shut down Conservative speech.
The point is, we need a voice out there for our people, a forum of our own, or we will have no voice at all. That we have a forum anywhere, be it on talk radio, Fox news, or the Art we make at our bakery shops. It is hypocritical for the left to refuse access to their forum while demanding access to ours.