I’ve been remiss in not linking to this City Journal article by Brian C. Anderson sooner — not least of which because it quotes from my campaign-finance-lobby reporting extensively.

It also hits some other interesting topics, including the liberals who want to bring back the "fairness doctrine." This, of course, is the doctrine stating that broadcast outlets must balance every minute given to conservative opinions with a minute given to liberal ones. The idea is essentially to force more liberal opinions onto the air, regardless of the market for them — or, alternately, to get networks to just pull conservatives and forget about broadcasting opinion altogether.

The removal of the fairness doctrine in the 1980s brought us conservative talk radio. Now that Air America has proved unable to rival Rush & Co., some people would just rather shut all speech down.

As is typical.