Mr. Whitehead had just given a widely noticed speech in which he had accused television stations of "ideological plugola" and "elitist gossip," and the question before the house is, as Mr. Buckley phrases it, "how does one, in fact, draw up a standard by which to ensure the fairness of individual stations in presenting points of view?" It turns out that there really isn't a standard--not one, at any rate, that Mr. Whitehead or Mr. Buckley can come up with--that doesn't have an element of subjectivity. But along the way we learn a lot about how the FCC actually interprets the Fairness Doctrine, how the new technologies make it easier to infringe on copyrights, and whether reruns are in the public interest. WFB: "Just what does 'elitist gossip' mean?" CTW: "It, in my book, means just what it says. It's the trading of more or less unsubstantiated tales among people who think that they're a little better than other people.... For instance, the network reporter who comes on the air and says, without doing much checking of his own, that, 'It is being said in Washington that,' or 'It is widely believed that.'"