Posted on 02/26/2009 11:57:20 AM PST by TCH
Just got this in from a fellow patriot... Cannot get confirmation... Nothing on Drudge, yet.
Saying “no” to resuming it you mean?
Another post stated the DeMint Bill passwed, which tables that Fairness Doctrine.
About an hour ago on FOX:
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is pushing for an amendment Thursday to outlaw the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” in a move that could prove more symbolic than fruitful.
The South Carolina senator has attached his amendment, called the Broadcaster Freedom Act, to a bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House.
But Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has also proposed an alternative bill to be debated at the same time. That proposal would order the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership “diversity.”
A DeMint aide said Durbin’s measure will “impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership.”
Passes 87-11.
Jim DeMint twitters updates from the floor. Check it out. Pretty cool you can send him messages.
What passed 87-11?
I don’t trust Durbin at all.
Demint resolution tabling Fairness Doctrine. For now its revival is dead.
Does Durbin’s bill provide money to democrats for radio ownership causing an imbalance in ability to operate?
Rush spoke of it briefly today.
I hear that census takers are going to be in area tommorrow but will not be going door to door...that makes no sense. How do you take a census at a restaurant?
What happened to it ? Do you know ?
Hopefully, this new proposal by Durbin will be aired out for the folks to see.
It seems to be a Trojan Horse.
“diversity” will be the death of liberty.
Senate bars FCC from revisiting Fairness Doctrine
Feb 26 03:58 PM US/Eastern
By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has barred federal regulators from reviving a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves.
The Senate vote on the so-called Fairness Doctrine was in part a response to conservative radio talk show hosts who feared that Democrats would try to revive the policy to ensure liberal opinions got equal time.
The Federal Communications Commission implemented the doctrine in 1949, but stopped enforcing it in 1987 after deciding new sources of information and programming made it unnecessary.
President Barack Obama says he has no intention of reimposing the doctrine, but Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., say they still need a guarantee the government would not establish new quotas or guidelines on programming.
Misleading title.
It’s dead.
Watch what happens to Durbin’s bill.
The DeMint bill could be nothing but political cover for many.
Durbin’s legislation passed 57-4.
Thanks. But it’s no mystery that reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine would go down in flames.
This proposal of Durbin’s (diversity of ownership) is a new one, right(?) but will effectively take the market away from AM talk or at least limit it.
At least that’s what I take from it??
ITYS!
What the heck happen did Durbin wait until the Republicans walked out of the room?
Passed 57-4.
Wow ~ they doing it on the same day??
Misleading Title?!
I put a QUESTION MARK (?) on the title! AND asked for confirmation! No intention to mislead, but to investigate.
Not sure yet. Senate web site still doesn't have the roll call vote posted yet.
No republican worth his salt would have voted for that bill.
Durbin’s trying to bring it in through the back door by going after ownership of stations. He’d love to destroy Clear Channel.
“What the heck happen did Durbin wait until the Republicans walked out of the room?”
He waited until Schumer had propped the chair up against the doorknob to the Senate Cloakroom.
What is going on in this country!!
“How do you take a census at a restaurant?”
You would go into the kitchen in democrat states and say:
“Aquí venida gente. Cuántos en sus familias. ¿Cinco? Ningun debe ser más que eso. ¿Veinte? Eso es mejor.”
Then they report twenty members in the family. Repeat this over and over and then increase CA’s electoral votes and congressional representation in the 2010 census.
I can think of four RINOS.
CORRECTION: 57-41 !!
I assume the vote was comprised of all Democrats (with maybe 1 or 2 RINOS).
Good, the Republicans now have another campaign issue.
This is off subject, but can someone here tell me WHO won? Coleman or PISSYHEAD Franken? I haven’t heard a word on the trial or verdict. WHAT’S GOING ON??
Or are the Republicans like McCain hiding in the cloak room so that it would pass and their constituents will not hold them in any way responsible? I would suggest there are at least as many RINO swine in the Senate who hate free speech as there are Democrats.
yes, but it’s a different name, not called “Fairness Doctrine”
Next Bailout: Liberal Media?
Posted February 26th, 2009
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a seemingly endless parade of bailouts from Washington — for banks, for automobiles, and just about everything else. Today, Congress may be voting on yet another bailout — this time for liberal media. This afternoon, the Senate is expected to take up a proposal by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois which would clear the way for a restoration of measures designed to chill speech considered too conservative. The Durbin measure is being offered as a substitute to a contrary measure by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina which would bar the FCC from re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine.
Interestingly, the Durbin amendment doesn’t actually address the Fairness Doctrine itself. Supporters of such a direct attempt to reimpose the doctrine know that such an direct attempt to return to the speech-muzzling rules of the past would be doomed to fail. Notably, even President Obama has declined to support such a step. Instead, the measure would simply require the FCC to promote “diversity” in media ownership and to ensure that broadcast stations licenses are used “in the public interest.”
But who’s to say after all what constitutes proper “diversity” and what is in the “public interest?” Would diversity be enhanced if there were less time devoted to conservative views? Would the “public interest” be served by increasing airtime for Bill Press and Air America?
Just a few days ago the pro-regulation advocacy group Free Press issued a report entitled “The Fairness Doctrine Distraction,” outlining just such a strategy. The problem, the group has long argued, is an imbalance in talk radio - specifically too many conservative voices. But the solution is not the Fairness Doctrine per se. The solution is stricter ownership rules governing who can hold a broadcast license, stricter “localism” and other public interest requirements, and strict rules on the Internet to enforce “neutrality” there.
This is the Left’s agenda for “correcting” the “problem” of too many conservative views on the air. Senator Durbin seems to have taken it to heart. No one should be fooled — it’s the Fairness Doctrine under a different name.
Heritage.org
I am stuck in the salt mines... deaf, dumb and blind right now... better ask some other freeper.
It’s in court.
The trial is still going on. Things not looking good for Coleman.
still in court, no winner yet.
Straight Party Line vote...57 Dems-Yea, 41 Repubs-Nay
Wonder what happened to the 60-40 cloture vote on this??
57 doen’t get them the votes to have the clotuer vote?
I guess we’ll have to see how this shakes out or listen to Levin to get the whole deal broken down.
Okay...so that’s why Obama wants to control the census..lol Imagine that.
From another post:
Senate bars FCC from revisiting Fairness Doctrine
Feb 26 02:58 PM US/Eastern
By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has barred federal regulators from reviving a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves.
Why did Druge take it off his website?
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:08:27 PM by andrew roman
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has barred federal regulators from reviving a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves. The Senate vote on the so-called Fairness Doctrine was in part a response to conservative radio talk show hosts who feared that Democrats would try to revive the policy to ensure liberal opinions got equal time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2194791/posts
Huh?
Very interesting that they are considering infringing upon free speech and property rights when there’s still so much work to be done to address economic issues.
It’s sort of like playing the fiddle while Rome burns.
I had one interesting thought about this fairness doctrine. It can be sword that cuts both ways. It would be nice to clean up the likes of NBC/MSNBC and CNN with it.
If the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ gets any kind of traction, does that mean that N P R MUST have Rush and Hannity and Glenn Beck on their stations each day?
Does it mean that ‘Air America’ will revive?
Does it mean that “the View” will make Joy Behar and Whoopi interview CONSERVATIVE guests every other day????
I hear that census takers are going to be in area tommorrow but will not be going door to door...that makes no sense. How do you take a census at a restaurant?”
You wait until every citizen comes in to spend part of their ‘stimulus’ money- and then you dip their finger into purple ink????
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