FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine

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FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine

August 23rd, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

BROOKS BOLIEK
Politico
August 22, 2011

The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules.

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.

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One Response to “FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine”

I was going to bitch at you guys for not running this article.
But here it is.
I’m not stupid but I’m not sure what to make of it.
That last paragraph smacks of lies and spin.
Come to think of it, so does the 3rd.