Well, that's not exactly what the head said, but close enough to it. The Fairness doctrine as most know was anything but fair when it was deployed the last time and axed in the eighties.There is no need for it's reinstatement now, unless of coarse it is expanded to include network television and 90 percent of the US print media. The democrats of coarse don't have their sites set on them, just that evil right wing talk radio. Therefore the fairness doctrine is needed in this country about as badly as another Nancy Pelosi.
They on the left proposing this return to the last century now have found out this latest little red meat gimmick of theirs chucked to their base net nuts will be an uphill battle at least.
Fairness Doctrine Not Needed:
FCC Chair: "WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission has no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine imposing a requirement of balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said.
Martin, in a letter written this week to Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and made public Thursday, said the agency found no compelling reason to revisit its 1987 decision that enforcing the federal rule was not in the public interest.
Several Democratic lawmakers suggested that Congress take another look at the doctrine after conservative radio talk show hosts aggressively attacked an immigration reform bill when it was on the Senate floor, contributing to its defeat.
Pence and other Republicans in both the House and Senate countered by introducing legislation to bar the FCC from reinstating the rule." continued
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