Opinion: Want to fix the presidential primaries? Revive the fairness and equal time doctrines.
President Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday. By Martin O'Malley January 28 at 7:45 PM Martin O’Malley was governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. This is the first op-ed in a series about how to improve the presidential nominating process.
There are many important reforms to our presidential selection process that should be adopted — curbing the corrupting influence of money, ending the electoral college, making voting a constitutional right. But none are so urgently needed as a restoration of the doctrines of equal time and fairness to media coverage of our electoral contests.
Most Americans who do know about the doctrines focus on how their end paved the way for the rise of conservative media — particularly talk radio. But less acknowledged is the effect of the doctrines’ demise on the nomination contests of our political parties. As a result, the media’s entertainment imperative has displaced the parties’ consensus-building imperative — in both primary and general elections.
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