Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 30, 2007
Doctrine Chills Free Speech
Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Calls to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine ignore the debilitating effects it had on political discourse.
By Adam Thierer
Some bad regulatory ideas just never seem to die. Take the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which some lawmakers in Congress are again attempting to resuscitate. Recently, for example, Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, have suggested that the world would be a better place if government officials sat in judgment of "fairness" on the bro...
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