Mr. President, If You Seek 'Fairness,' If You Seek 'Diversity,' Come to This Page; Mr. President, Open This Page (Wall Street Journal Editorial Page);

...Mr. President, don't rebuild this wall!  

(With acknowledgements to former President Ronald Reagan and his famous 1987 speech in front of Brandenburg Gate at the Berlin Wall, where he adjured 'Mr. Gorbachev' to 'tear down this wall!')

I refer to the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," that onerous wall of liberal protectionism that the federal government erected in the 1940s to hedge about the commercial radio industry with an aura of "balance" and "diversity" of opinion in its programming.  

Of course, the 'Fairness Doctrine' had the practical effect of stifling free speech and stunting the growth of AM radio (beyond music & community bulletin board formats), but that's bound to happen whenever some kind of government-induced affirmative action program is artificially imposed on the real world, with certain specific outcomes desired, without regard to how they distort and truncate the marketplace unfairly!

Here is a Wall Street Journal editorial column published today, written by a man who singlehandedly revived talk radio in the late 1980's--after the Fairness Doctrine was mercifully abandoned (actually, vetoed by Pres. Reagan after the Democrat-controlled Congress tried to reinstate it)--and is considered Public Enemy Number One in the eyes of the Obama administration and the socialists/neo-Marxist elitists in Washington, Rush Limbaugh, on the very subject of reinstating something akin to this wholly unconstitutional and immoral approach to "fairness" on the radio:

Mr. President, Keep the Airwaves Free

Rush quoted from this piece today on his radio program.  It's well worth reading and taking very seriously by those who love and cherish freedom, especially freedom of speech.

If any reincarnation of the Unfairness Doctrine should arise and become law--regardless of what euphemistic epithet they conjure up to call it--it will prove that America once again--this time under the watch of the Obama administration--has lapsed into another fit of left-wing totalitarian tampering and unethical intervention, evinced by government manipulation, intrusion and insinuation into any and every aspect of the free market that it deems "unfair," even to the subversive squelching of freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. (But, after all, who pays any attention to that old relic!)