This article investigates whether television stations in small markets should be allowed to merge. The Federal Communications Commission prohibits such mergers. The FCC claims that such mergers will reduce the diversity of communications in small markets, and many commentators agree with the...

This article posits that attempts thus far to develop a consistent, principles theory of the duty of fair representation have not been successful. We do not deny that certain particularized rules of fairness derived from various sources can be generated and applied to particular cases. We do not...