Posted on 08/22/2011 4:20:08 PM PDT by SanFranDan
"The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules," Politico's Brooks Boliek reported this afternoon:
Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts the last nail into the coffin for the regulation that sought to ensure discussion over the airwaves of controversial issues did not exclude any particular point of view. A broadcaster that violated the rule risked losing its license.
While the commission voted in 1987 to do away with the rule — a legacy to a time when broadcasting was a much more dominant voice than it is today — the language implementing it was never removed. The move Monday, once published in the federal register, effectively erases the rule.
So the Fairness Doctrine is dead. But the spirit of the same could well live on as a regulatory specter forever.
Regulatory pushes for "localism" and "diversity" requirements could prove to be a back-door reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine, a Republican FCC commissioner warned two weeks ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Lay down with administrative law, get up with a tattoo on your arm.
What about Net Neutrality? What about Obama/Nazi Deathcare? What about the regulations on the food chain in this country? What about Amnesty by fiat?
Yeah...ok the fairness doctrine is something we can all hang on to and pathetically thank our representatives for allowing freedom of speech on the radio (while other rights and freedoms are on the butcher block).
Color me impressed /s
Let us not forget, they lie about everything.
I suspect the Obama administration will try and bring back the “Fairness Doctrine” in another form. They will call it something else but it will attempt to censor their critics.
IMO just some more “OA Smoke”. Its working hard (under the radar) to create a controlled pipeline into key areas under the guise of creating “Localism and Diversity”. That there’s no economic support for this venture won’t matter since its going be created by executive fiat and funded by taxpayer subsidy. >PS
Bingo this is what I was thinking. It’s a head fake!
Out of this regime, anytime they say one thing, look for the opposite to actually occur.
” Lay down with administrative law, get up with a tattoo on your arm. “
—and a chancre the size of a walnut on your Yankee Doodle Dandy.
They just renamed it
Gee, how long did it take them?
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