Despite insistence from our local left-wing apologists, the Democrat party is going to push censorship and call it fairness.   Orwell would be proud.  Here it comes.  From the Politico:

BILL PRESS: Yeah, I mean, look: They have a right to say that. They’ve got a right to express that. But, they should not be the only voices heard. So, is it time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?

SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else — I absolutely think it’s time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to step up and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.

BILL PRESS: Can we count on you to push for some hearings in the United States Senate this year, to bring these owners in and hold them accountable?

SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I have already had some discussions with colleagues and, you know, I feel like that’s gonna happen. Yep.

Despite insistence that no one is talking about the Fairness doctine, Nancy Pelosi, several house members, and several senators are talking about it.  Considering the drumbeat from the left, it will be coming to a station near you, real soon.  The following screed from Common Dreams:

The necessity for the Fairness Doctrine, according to proponents, arises from the fact that there are many fewer broadcast licenses than people who would like to have them. Unlike publishing, where the tools of the trade are in more or less endless supply, broadcasting licenses are limited by the finite number of available frequencies. Thus, as trustees of a scarce public resource, licensees accept certain public interest obligations in exchange for the exclusive use of limited public airwaves. One such obligation was the Fairness Doctrine, which was meant to ensure that a variety of views, beyond those of the licensees and those they favored, were heard on the airwaves. (Since cable’s infrastructure is privately owned and cable channels can, in theory, be endlessly multiplied, the FCC does not put public interest requirements on that medium.)

is typical of what passes for thinking from the left.  From the LA Times:

Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and such influential Democratic senators as Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer are pushing for its return, or something like it. Could the equal-time provisions pull a Don Imus and make a radio comeback?

This is an idea that will be used to shut down talk radio.  Radio is the one medium that is not dominated by the left.  It appears dominence in print media such as newspapers and magazines, cabal TV, and broadcast TV.   This is not enough.  Those inconvenient voices on the right must go.  Fair?  Hardly.

UPDATE

Prester John makes an interesting point.  If broadcaste TV and Public radio and TV have provide equal time, won’t that bring balance to the airwaves?  Hardly.  Bill Moyers will be held up as a centrist.  As will the current broadcaste TV crews.  ‘MSNBC is unbiased and only reports the truth.’, will be stated with a solemnity and a straight face.  Only talk radio will be found to be in need of a fix.