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Fairness Doctrine Talk, Libel Case Raise Free-speech Worries

Gene Policinski Commentary
Inside the First Amendment

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By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

We keep finding new ways to argue with ourselves over old ideas about what we can or cannot say to each other — in other words, we’re constantly redefining the boundaries of free speech.

Even as you read this:

  • The “buzz” is buzzing louder about reviving the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” discarded in 1987 by the Federal Communications Commission as a tool…

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