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What is the "Fairness Doctrine"?
If you are able to see the irony in the USSR's main propaganda tool being called Pravda (translation: Truth) or the country of North Korea having an official name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, then you can see the irony in the name of the law known as the Fairness Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was (in the Commission's view) honest, equitable, and balanced.
In 1987, the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine, prompting some to urge its reintroduction through either Commission policy or Congressional legislation. |
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Unfortunately, yes. As hard as it may be to understand anyone thinking that this doctrine is "fair", many democratic legislators have expressed interest in bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Now that they control both the Executive and Legislative branches, and have a Supreme Court that is far from being conservative, they may try in earnest to bring it back.
In June 2007, Senator Richard Durbin said, "It’s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine,” an opinion shared by his colleague, Senator John Kerry. On June 24, 2008,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that her fellow Democrat representatives did not want to forbid reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, adding “the interest in my caucus is the reverse.” When asked if she supported the revival of the Fairness Doctrine, she replied "Yes."
On October 22, 2008, Senator Jeff Binaman told a conservative talk radio host in, "I would want this station and all stations to have to present a balanced perspective and different points of view," and "All I’m saying is that for many, many years we operated under a Fairness Doctrine in this country, and I think the country was well-served. I think the public discussion was at a higher level and more intelligent in those days than it has become since."
And though President-elect Obama has indicated he doesn't necessarily want the Fairness Doctrine back, he stated before the election, “I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls." He obviously doesn't mention that if the vast majority of the newspaper, magazine, entertainment, and television media were not so blatantly and consistently liberal, he would be twenty points behind. The unstated message from our new President is that Fox News is somehow unfair and should be silenced.
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