A rash of articles has appeared in recent months advocating the termination of the Fairness Doctrine, which imposes an obligation of fairness on television and radio broadcasters. It's easy to see why the Dan Rathers of the electronic media world … [Read more...] about The Fairness Doctrine

It is a tossup as to which is the more artful example of self-serving hokum: the so-called "best-seller lists" used to promote book titles favored by the liberals or the sideshow of "banned books" displayed to encourage naive customers to hurry up … [Read more...] about Silent Censorship

Can a church-related university be forced to give official recognition and financial support to a homosexual organization? Can the university be required to allocate university resources and student funds to homosexuals, even though their lifestyle … [Read more...] about Gays at Georgetown

Probably everyone has had the experience of speaking words spontaneously and unexpectedly that can never be recalled. Sometimes they are a truth that was better left unsaid; sometimes they are an unfortunate choice of words that were misunderstood. … [Read more...] about Get the U.N. Out of the U.S.

One would have to be blind and deaf not to notice the acceleration of media attacks on General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Easy access to network newscasts is given to anyone in any part of the world who demands or predicts Pinochet's overthrow or … [Read more...] about Why the Liberals Hate Pinochet

"I care not who writes my country's laws so long as I can write its songs," says a centuries-old aphorism. The modern version would be, "I care not who writes my country's laws or who is elected its officials, so long as I can write its television … [Read more...] about ABC Film: “The Day After”

Armando Valladares is a very brave man. He survived 22 years in Castro's prisons, and he is now telling the world what it was like. It's very similar to Solzhenitsyn's descriptions of the Soviet Gulag, only Cuba is a lot closer to America. A … [Read more...] about A Voice From Castro’s Prisons

The missile that tragically shot down Korean Air Lines #007 also mercifully terminated the embarrassment of much of the media over the way they had been "Honeggerized." That's the new word for how a nobody can get tremendous access to the national … [Read more...] about How the Media Were Honeggerized

The "China card" is a favorite liberal expression to indicate that the U.S. President is somehow playing a trump card by being gracious to Red China at the expense of Taiwan. The China card metaphor has always been more perception than substance and, … [Read more...] about China’s Hong Kong Card

Anti-Reagan media reporting about the Grove City College case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, is a good example of how news is manufactured in order to feed the media myth called the "gender gap." The real problem is an information gap. A … [Read more...] about Unfair Attacks on Reagan