Bill Ruder Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce during the Kennedy Administration.
“We had a massive strategy to use the ‘fairness doctrine’ to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hoped the challenge would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue.”
Source: “Golden Oldies,” Capital Briefs, Human Events, January 29, 2007, page 4. Hardcopy: Copy of the Human Events article. Where: In an article titled, “Return of the Fairness Demon,” by Tony Snow in The Washington Times. When: September 5, 1993. Contributor: AIM Category: Conservatives