Les Enfants Terrible

RECENTLY, A HOST OF DEMOCRATS have been pining for the days of the "fairness doctrine," a time in our history when political speech was heavily regulated. Daniel Henninger has a good piece on OpinionJournal on the subject. He even suggests that the removal of the un-fairness doctrine gave Republicans it's first majority in 42 years.

In 1994, Newt Gingrich, his Contract With America and the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1952--the years in which the Fairness Doctrine largely kept politics off the air. This didn't happen because the Gingrich candidates were getting their message out in the Los Angeles Times or Boston Globe.