Do we need another First Amendment?

Brian Anderson, senior editor of City Journal, has the MUST read op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “Shut Up, They Explained: The left’s regulatory war against free speech.”

In one piece, all the strands of the Democrat attack upon the First Amendment are described, from McCain-Feingold to “Fairness Doctrine,” leading Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds to question:

Instead of a media exemption…maybe we need a "free speech exception, in which you are allowed to say what you want about political candidates without fear of prosecution by the government."

As Brian Anderson summarizes:

The rise of alternative media--political talk radio in the 1980s, cable news in the '90s, and the blogosphere in the new millennium--has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets. The left understands acutely the implications of this revolution, blaming much of the Democratic Party's current electoral trouble on the influence of the new media's vigorous conservative voices. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, today's liberals quietly, relentlessly and illiberally are working to smother this flourishing universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations.

For the details READ IT ALL.