House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder announcing her intentions to hold hearings on the
issue of newspaper consolidations in the San Francisco Bay Area, citing anti-trust laws as a potential avenue to do something about this.
The Hearings would be by the Courts and Competition Policy Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee.
While clearly there are serious issues engulfing the newspaper industry in San Francisco and elsewhere, the problem isn't one of anti-trust laws. Pelosi has made her feelings known and would like to return to the Fairness Doctrine.
The industry has been changing for years but other than perhaps some limits on one company owning too many newspapers, television and radio stations in a single market, the government really should have no role in the business of news.
Speaker Pelosi, is determined to regulate what news we can read, watch and listen too, it would make it much easier for Democrats to get their agenda enacted if it wasn't for the 1st Amendment.
In January, I wrote here that Free Speech is essential in the pursuit
of learning, not every idea or thought is an avenue of incitement, censorship only results in the pursuit of finding cracks in the Great Firewall of China.
This still is the United States of America with a Constitution?
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