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Abstract
The right of the broadcaster to advocate his own views over his station should be (depending upon who is doing the talking) anything from absolute to prohibited. This particular question will continue to worry and affect broadcasters, regulators, and citizen‐listener/viewers for years to come as it has in the past. The Journal has published numerous articles on this question, such as FCC Commissioner Ford's “The Fairness Doctrine” in the Winter 1963–64 issue.
The following remarks, by a broadcaster whose ideas definitely do not coincide with Commissioner Ford's, were originally prepared for the 1964 NAB Fall Regional Conference in Los Angeles. Rex Howell has spent his entire adult life in radio and television, and is now President of KREX AM‐FM‐TV, Grand Junction, Colorado. During most of this period he has been fighting for the right to editorialize and for increased access by broadcast newsmen to courtrooms and other public proceedings. He has been a member of the APBE Board of Directors, and currently is Chairman of the Radio Board of Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters.
