What’s Fair Is Fair
And fair is not the “Fairness Doctrine.”
politics, political correctness, government, oppression, censorship, liberalism, socialism
October 20, 2008, by Barbara Comstock & Lanny J. Davis
A recent Rasmussen poll reported that nearly half of Americans (47 percent) believe the government should mandate political balance on radio and TV airwaves. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also indicated that she would like to reinstate the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” While the two of us can usually be found on opposite sides of many political issues, this is one issue where we have found strong agreement: We both strongly oppose reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Historically, opposition to the Fairness Doctrine has been genuinely a bipartisan issue.