Thought of the Day: On Reviving the ‘Fairness Doctrine’
From Carlo at Techdirt, which has never been accused of being a hotbed of conservative thinking (in fact elsewhere in his post, he takes a shot at Fox News):
The Fairness Doctrine also makes less and less sense in an age where the number of media outlets is proliferating. There’s no limit to the number of places that can provide news or opinion, and professionals and the public have more tools than ever at their disposal to tell their own stories and express their own viewpoints. To require certain media to provide an arbitrary level of “balance” makes less sense than encouraging people with disagreeing viewpoints to develop their own media outlets, whether it’s a blog, newsletter or even a cable TV channel. Kucinich says that “the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda” — but reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine would simply replace that corporate agenda with that of a political appointee, and that’s really not very fair.
Succinct BizzyBlog reax to the attempt to revive the misnamed Fairness Doctrine is here.
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UPDATE: Red State Rampage has the nomenclature right.
