Barack Obama doesn’t support reinstating the Fairness Doctrine. That’s nice. But he doesn’t have to push for it to get it. I read his campaign’s statement of non-support at the time, and I didn’t see any veto promise–or even any opposition to it in principle. (Obama considers the debate over the Doctrine a “distraction” from more pressing media-regulation initiatives.)
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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