SC case may block 'fairness doctrine' too

Hugh Hewitt find this nugget in the case lifting restriction on corporate speech:

I have been reading Citizen United with an eye on its implications for new media and also for talk radio. Two key excerpts from Justice Kennedy's opinion.

From p. 9:

Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. We must decline to draw, and then redraw, constitutional lines based on the particular media or technology used to disseminate political speech from a particular speaker.
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While this might be considered dicta, it is pretty clear in its implications if the Democrats do try to reinstate the "fairness doctrine."

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