The Fairness Doctrine.

I love what Kucinich is doing with the Fairness Doctrine. Our public airways, which are owned by the people, should serve a greater good than corporate profits, and since Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in the '80s, our public discourse has gotten unbearably crappy. Unless you think Michael Savage is a positive development.

It's pretty simple, really. The people own the airwaves, but rich, conservative white men own most AM radio stations. So the people's airwaves, unencumbered by the Fairness Doctrine, have been hijacked by a single, far-right political agenda.

Result: Rushbo and his Dittoheads all day, every day. And the Dittoheads want to keep it that way.

HARRY REID INTRODUCES BILL TO REGISTER BLOGGERS? Hmm.

Put this together with a move toward the reintroduction of the inaptly named "fairness doctrine" and it's starting to look like a rather heavyhanded effort to silence critics.

How in any way does the Fairness Doctrine "silence" critics? As I understand it, it just ensures that more critics are heard, instead of all the same kind.

But anyway, it's funny to see Putz whine about silencing critics. It seems to me like he spends a good deal of his free time suggesting that the concept of the free press is probably just a misguided hippie invention that came out of the '60s, that our Bush-hating media willingly assists terrorists, all while supporting a party and a political ideology that regularly equates dissent with treason.

FDL has more on this here.