Great piece in TNR about how despite all the fearmongering, there really is no campaign at all to bring back the anti-talk radio "Fairness Doctrine":
To figure out who was causing such agitation, I went searching for the proponents of the fairness doctrine. I looked at Obama's position--and it turns out that he doesn't want the policy reinstated. Then I called the array of Democratic congressmen who had been tagged by conservatives as doctrine proponents. But they all denied any intention to push for its reinstatement. As some of the world's great egotists, it's not surprising that Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly believe they would be the first political prisoners interred in an Obama administration. But, the more I searched for actual evidence of the doctrine's return, the more I had to conclude that Schumer was just messing with their heads.But hey, no reason not to get really, really scared about it happening after all. Posted by Stephen Silver at November 20, 2008 05:52 PM