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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> Good News!
Fairness Doctrine is
Dead<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/good-news-fairness-doctrine-is-dead/>
*Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | August 23,
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Amidst dreary news about the economy, we have a piece of good news.
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission gave a killing karaté chop
to the Orwellian-named "Fairness
Doctrine<http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/FairnessDoctrine>
"!
Brooks Boliek <http://www.politico.com/reporters/BrooksBoliek.html> of
Politico reports <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61851.html>,
August 22, 2011, that the
FCC<http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/FederalCommunicationsCommission>also
axed more than 80 media industry rules.
Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski already had agreed to
erase the post WWII-era
"doctrine"<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47669.html>,
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.
Monday’s move is part of the commission’s response to a White House
executive order directing a “government-wide review of regulations already
on the books” designed to eliminate unnecessary regulations.
Also consigned to the regulatory dustbin are the “broadcast flag” digital
copy protection rule that was struck down by the courts and the cable
programming service tier rate. Altogether, the agency tossed 83 rules and
regs.
Genachowski <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54541.html> said in a
statement that the move was aimed at promoting “a healthy climate for
private investment and job creation.” Both the Obama
administration<http://www.politico.com/politico44/>and the FCC have
come under criticism by business groups over laws and
regulations such as health care reform and net neutrality rules.
I'm still incredulous that the Obama administration actually did something
right....
*~Eowyn*
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