Citing Obama Opposition, FCC's McDowell Warns Against Fairness Doctrine - Multichannel News »
Posted By pc25 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsFCC commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to reimpose the fairness doctrine: The move could undermine the justification for existing localism and children's TV regulations, and could be used against public radio.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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FTA
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The fairness doctrine was scrapped by the FCC as unconstitutional in 1987.
Actually, in a string of media cases stretching back over more than 20 years, various judges on the D.C. Circuit - both Democratic and Republican appointees - have suggested that it is time for the Supreme Court to rethink the concept of spectrum scarcity as a justification for limiting broadcasters' First Amendment rights. A revived Doctrine would provide a big, bright bulls-eye for those who wish to make that happen. That development would have implications far beyond the Doctrine itself. Much of our content regulation of broadcasters - including most of the FCC's existing localism rules and the regulations requiring three hours a week of children's programming - rest on the spectrum scarcity rationale. If that rationale is invalidated, serious legal challenges to all those other content rules may follow."
McDowell said he was hopeful that the Obama administration understood all this. -
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icono110 months, 1 week ago
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Well you gotta wonder;
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Comrade 0Bama said...
"'To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history ...."
Then 0Bama tells DC politicians not to listen to Rush if they want to be on the 0 Messiah's political A list.
Now following his own logic ;ie ...those...clinging to power through......the silencing of dissent.... are on the wrong side of history..... Comrade 0Baama showed his own elitist yet contradictory roots by hoisting on Rush the very thing Comrade Bahama is railing against , the silencing of dissent, yet at the same time covertly supporting the silencing dissent by telling people not to listen to Rush because he is somehow 'corrupt' for having a dissenting opinion. -
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RedRiverJ10 months, 1 week ago
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They should be calling this the 'conservative censorship doctrine.' After all that's what the liberals, democrats and Obama want, complete control. If they can shut Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck off, they have it made in the shade.
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Kinda sounds like communists huh? -
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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FTA:
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FCC commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to reimpose the fairness doctrine: The move could undermine the justification for existing localism and children's TV regulations, and could be used against public radio.
My, my, my Commissioner McDowell saying a Fairness Doctrine could be used AGAINST public radio!
Sometimes you find the truth in the most unexpected places!
Wonder if NPR will be reporting this AP story:
Hill Republican: Stimulus aids illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Republican congressional aide says the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus measure could steer government checks to illegal immigrants.
Republican officials are concerned that the Democratic-written legislation makes people who came to the United States illegally eligible for tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple.
A House-passed version of the bill and one making its way through the Senate both disqualify nonresident aliens from receiving the credits. But neither requires a worker to have a Social Security number to get the credits.
An economic aid measure enacted in February 2008 that sent rebates to most wage earners required that people have valid Social Security numbers in order to get checks.-
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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did you see this
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http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSin...
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cherev10 months, 1 week ago
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"a stealth version of the doctrine may already be teed up at the FCC in the form of community advisory boards to help determine local programming. McDowell says he is fine with those boards if they are voluntary--some stations already seek such input. But that if they are required, as the FCC has proposed, "Would not such a policy be akin to re-imposition of the Doctrine, albeit under a different name and sales pitch?""
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson.
"The strongest reason for people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
The Fairness Doctrine, in whatever form, is a form of tyranny. -
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slate10 months, 1 week ago
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Ever notice that only fairness goes with making the 'right' be fair? And then ONLY fair on the radio waves?
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Not NPR, not Air America
Noooooooo not the MSM they ARE fair, why just look at the last election coverage. Didn't that "fair' and balanced coverage just send a tingle up your leg?
The only place you are hearing a dissenting view of the 5 executive orders in LESS THAN A WEEK, the tax dodging Treasury Secretary, the 4 billion dollars (more than given to major corps. that would actually create jobs)going to the ACORN organization that registered more people than lived in areas and is being looked into in 12 states, hiring 3 lobbyists after claiming he would not do that, one booted (Richardson)even before he could get the nod from the Senate.
Fairness Doctrine means less free speech of 'choice', since people chose to listen to these radio programs because they don't think they are getting the real skinny from the obviously partisan leftist that 'pretend' to be objective as their legs tingle for the Democrats. At least when you go to 'right wing' radio, you know what you are getting and they make no bones about their views on a talk program that doesn't 'pretend' to be a non biased news source like the tingly guys on da left. -
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