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

FCC killed this idiocy decades ago.

This dude needs a real job

On Jun 8, 1:35 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can hear the libturds and Soroshitskis screaming already.
>
>     <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> FCC Chairman
> agrees to stike down The Fairness Doctrine...says it restricts Free
> Speech<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/fcc-chairman-agrees-to-...>
> *Scotty Starnes
> <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| June 8,
> 2011 at 12:10 PM | Tags: Fairness
> Doctrine <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=fairness-doctrine>, FCC
> Chairman Julius
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> From The Hill<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/165369-fcc-chairm...>
> :
>
> *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.
>
> Continue reading>>><http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/165369-fcc-chairm...>
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