James Gattuso has a very good piece on the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine, like most regulation, serves to provide new tools for government to serve its own interests. Both Nixon and Kennedy used it to cow opponents in the bad old days, by making controversial speech expensive at best and punishable at worst. Give it a read.
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