Needed: The Fairness Doctrine

Smerconish is back on MSNBC again this morning. His guests, while I have been watching, have been Arlen Spector, Pat Buchannan, and John McCain. Now that's a nice, balanced lineup, eh? The Fairness Doctrine used to require real balance until it was done away with under, I think, the Reagan administration. Clinton could have reinstated it but didn't. That's just one more of his many failings. We need the Fairness doctine back. Remember, the explosion of right wing talk radio, the Limbaughs, Savages, etc, is due largely to the elimination of the Fairness Doctine.

Jim