We at American Thinker have covered the attempt by Democrats to reinstitute the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" which would virtually shut down conservative talk radio and perhaps even sites like this one. In today's New York Post , City Journal editor Brian Anderson examines exactly what the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine would mean:The Fairness Doctrine was an astonishingly bad idea. It's a too-tempting power for government to abuse. When the doctrine was in effect, both Democratic and Republican administrations regularly used it to harass critics on radio and TV. Second, a new Fairness Doctrine would drive political talk radio off the dial. If a station ran a big-audience conservative program like, say, Laura Ingraham's, it would also have to run a left-leaning alternative. But liberals don't do well on talk radio, as the failure of Air America and indeed all other liberal efforts in the medium to date show. Stations would likely trim back conservative...(Read Full Post)