http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/22/fcc-to-drop-fairness-doctrine
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The Fairness Doctrine has been in place since 1949, and required licensed broadcasters to share airwaves equally for competing political points of view. At the time of its creation, only 2,881 radio stations existed, compared with roughly 14,000 today.
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Yes, but how many owners? How many overseers?
I posted a link to FOX for the value of the irony. "Fair and Balanced" was only appreciated with a sense of irony. The Fairness Doctrine had to be skirted for FOX, Rush and the like to have ever existed as they have been.
Other changes in FCC policy should also be common knowledge and if you don't know about them and think you are informed, also ironic.
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=fairnessdoct
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The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission that became known as the "Fairness Doctrine" is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair. The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were "public trustees," and as such had an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on controversial issues of public importance. The Commission later held that stations were also obligated to actively seek out issues of importance to their community and air programming that addressed those issues. With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
09-13-2011, 10:33 AM
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