Bravo For The FCC
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Law — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It rejects the "Fairness Doctrine":
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.
My take on the Fairness Doctrine can be found here. I am glad the FCC seems to agree.
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Why should the public, who by the way own the airwaves (both radio, TV, etc.), expect fairness in reporting and news. You look at any successful conservative government such as Argentina in the '70s, Chile under Pinochet, Saudi Arabia, etc. and you see that they don't let leftest or even moderates interfere with their control of the news.
It's about time that corporate owners of radio, TV and other media (primarily Fox, GE, and Disney) stop accomodating these "Hate America" liberals" and start broadcasting the one true message: what is good for big business is what is good for all of us. As long as we let these leftist have any air time (NPR, PBS, NYT), the future of corporate America is at risk.
Pinochet had the right policy: put the leftist in prisons and then out of their misery.
You're not good enough for the big leagues yet.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
The problem is not with the current FCC. It is that at present the FCC could take this up as an issue in the future.
The idea of legislating on the issue was to take this option off the table.