If the media is liberal, why does the right fight the fairness doctrine?

[Hamlette]

I mean, really. Isn't this the proof in the pudding? If the media is liberal you'd think conservatives would WANT the fairness doctrine to be reinstated.

It's my favorite new argument to use the next time some right wing nut case complains about the liberal media.

Another odd thing is that since November, the right has been launching a preemptive war against the left on the issue. I've not heard one nationally elected democrat talking about bringing back the fairness doctrine (we're got some significant real problems, hello?) but George Will and others are all in a state.

Because liberals have been even less successful in competing with conservatives on talk radio than Detroit has been in competing with its rivals, liberals are seeking intellectual protectionism in the form of regulations that suppress ideological rivals. If liberals advertise their illiberalism by reimposing the fairness doctrine, the Supreme Court might revisit its 1969 ruling that the fairness doctrine is constitutional. The court probably would dismay reactionary liberals by reversing that decision on the ground that the world has changed vastly, pertinently and for the better. (blah blah, not worth reading really, as usual)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120503194.html