The conceptual problem I have with the Fairness Doctrine - never having known a world in which it existed - is that it could force broadcasters to give equal ti

The conceptual problem I have with the Fairness Doctrine - never having known a world in which it existed - is that it could force broadcasters to give equal time to ideas that do not have equal merit. If we had anti-vaxxers in 1986, would they have to get equal time on every news channel? What about Obama birthers? Abstinence-only sex ed? Or, what about the fact that the current administration has no interest in doing anything beneficial to non-wealthy Americans? I consider that a demonstrable fact; must my hypothetical network give time to seriously considering the possibility that the GOP has rural America's best interests at heart, just because someone in politics claims that that's the case?