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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...

Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue." - William Ruder, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Now that liberals have seized control of the U.S. Congress, they are trying to shut down talk radio so the American people can no longer hear the truth from Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and a host of other conservatives. But isn't that what liberals always do... silence the opposition? When Lenin seized...

Just the sight of his sharp face, bushy eyebrows and exaggerated cowboy hat evokes in me the same feeling as that obnoxious TV ad, “Apply directly to the forehead, apply directly ...” But Don Imus is only a symptom of a deeper malaise in broadcast journalism. Even though we have followed our hearts to Blacksburg, Va., forgetting Imus, the sickness he revealed in our cultural discourse should draw us back to examine the origins and history of the disease. When the Fairness Doctrine, which imposed a degree of civility on the use of public airwaves, was repealed during the Reagan...