Fairness Doctrine, Wind Power and Flood Insurance

1. MEDIA Lawmakers debate the return of the “Fairness Doctrine” for news broadcasts. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Policy Analyst Cord Blomquist on the threat to freedom of speech: “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote that the best test of truth ‘is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.’ Yet today many are turning away from this ideal, calling for greater government intervention in media ownership over the perceived lack of fairness in the press. As Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) recently proclaimed, ‘We really do literally have five or six major corporations in this country that determine for the most part what Americans see, hear, and read every day.’ 2. ENVIRONMENT Famed Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens launches a multimedia campaign to replace oil use with wind... [read full story]