I'm not sure what you're getting at there to be honest, especially not with the last comment about peasants? I don't want a fairness doctrine because it clearly

I'm not sure what you're getting at there to be honest, especially not with the last comment about peasants? I don't want a fairness doctrine because it clearly is pointless and wouldn't be enforced, thus making it at best a waste of legislative time and at worst a selectively enforced rule; the classic weapon of tyrants everywhere. In theory journalists should be able to separate their personal opinions from their work. Many other professions do, most notably defence lawyers. You sound like you don't believe it's possible, which should put you in agreement with me that a fairness doctrine is a silly thing to have. As for your final comments: do you really believe conservatives - all those hundreds of millions of them around the world - are Disney villains who hate the sick and will block medicine shipments just for the sheer hell of it? That quote is obviously extremist nonsense. People refuse to sell each other medicine all the time for all sorts of reasons but it's never to do with just a blind hatred of the sick, as that quote implies. The fact that the head of a major news operation apparently believes such a statement is worthy of being repeated says everything one needs to know about the state of modern journalism.