FCC Chairman agrees to stike down The Fairness Doctrine...says it restricts Free Speech

I can hear the libturds and Soroshitskis screaming already.

FCC Chairman agrees to stike down The Fairness Doctrine...says it restricts Free Speech Scotty Starnes | June 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM | Tags: Fairness Doctrine, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Free Speech, Julius Genachowski | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5pK

From The Hill:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency will remove the Fairness Doctrine from the rule books in response to a recent request from House Republicans.

"I fully support deleting the Fairness Doctrine and related provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations, so that there can be no mistake that what has been a dead letter is truly dead," Genachowski wrote in a letter Monday to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

"I look forward to effectuating this change when acting on the staff's recommendations and anticipate that the process can be completed in the near future."

Genachowski has frequently voiced his opposition to the rule, which required broadcasters to cover controversial public issues in a manner deemed fair and balanced by the FCC.

The left has no problem with the liberal media spinning the truth and evading fair and balance reporting because it benefits them.

The commission stopped enforcing the rule in 1987 after concluding it was unconstitutional, but in recent years some Democrats have suggested reviving the policy in response to the increasingly partisan nature of cable news.

..."In my view, the Fairness Doctrine holds the potential to chill free speech and the free flow of ideas and, accordingly, was properly abandoned," Genachowski said.

Democrats will be disappointed. Their attempt to silence conservative's right to free speech is dead.

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