MediaFairness.com is dedicated to fighting the idea that fairness must (or can) be imposed upon the media.
For one, this site will serve to argue against re-adoption of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”, based on the well-founded argument that the Fairness Doctrine is an unlawful prior restraint on speech which, when in effect years ago, was imposed in order to grant rights to broadcasters to editorialize and was technically based on the Federal Communication Commission’s notion of “scarcity”. With new media technology, scarcity no longer exists.
Kick Off
Either November 13, 2008 is an unlucky day for MF or it is an unlucky day for those who would abuse the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It’s “day one” of MediaFairness.com (a/k/a “MF”). Game on.
MF is not intended to be an ideological “right wing” site. The preference is to make the case for unbridled media (within the reasonable confines of decency and lawfulness) – especially as concerns political and religious speech, letting the market determine what messages the public (or segments of the public) want to hear.
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