Unfair Fairness

Because it's going to come up if we get the perfect storm of an Obie presidency and a Democrat Congress we need to start opposing it now.

Information is the best ammo:

The Fairness Doctrine's constitutionality was adjudicated and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1969 case, Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (395 U.S. 367). Although the Court then ruled that the Fairness Doctrine did not violate a broadcaster's First Amendment rights, the Court cautioned that if the doctrine ever began to restrain speech, then the rule's constitutionality should be reconsidered.

And, in fact, in another case.(Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241)., the Supreme Court ruled that the Fairness Doctrine "inescapably dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate."

Finally, in 1984, the Supreme Court concluded that the scarcity rationale underlying the Fairness Doctrine was flawed and that the Fairness Doctrine was limiting the breadth of public debate (FCC v. League of Women Voters, 468 U.S. 364).

Write your Congressmen and letters to the editor now. Let US frame the debate for a change.

You can find several more links to information and opinion about this pernicious assault on Conservative Talk Radio, here.

The Gunslinger