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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:26 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:01 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:12 am
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Again, wouldn't lose any sleep over fairness doctrine. For the next 2 years they wont even put this onto the Senate floor, even Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins wouldn't jump ship for this one. It also bears mention that John Tester, Jim Webb, the Udall brothers, or either Democrat Nelson want to face their constituents as the one who took Rush Limbaugh off the radio. This is going to require a broad enough Democratic majority that they can mount cloture on the issue and still pass it with Democratic defectors in a final vote. Such conditions won't exist at least until after the 2010 elections, if they ever materialize. Next you're faced with the constitutional issues of this law. Would the Roberts court find that privately owned radio stations must broadcast content they don't approve of? I have a hard time believing Breyer or Kennedy would support this, let alone Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. So that means Fairness Doctrine is dead on the doorstep of the Sepreme Court. Now, suppose by some miracle this passes Supreme Court review. All you really do is kill public airwave radio. They tried liberal talk radio, and it died of SIDS. So, if you get the conservative talkshows yanked from AM radio, all that really happens is people drop out of AM radio in favor of subscription radio and webcast. So, in five years from the time of passage liberals stand scratching their heads wondering why AM radio is in chapter 11 across the country, while XM, Sirius, and the soon to be "LiveLimbaugh.com" are growing by leaps and bounds. In the meantime bitter conservatives flood the polls on election day and the Democrats large but tenuous hold on Congress is undone, depending on the timing so is their hold on the White House. In the end the fairness doctrine is a loser of an issue for liberals, and enough of them know this to take a hands-off approach.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:34 pm
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:39 am
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 12:25 pm
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 3:45 am
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:05 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:20 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:37 am
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The Fairness Doctrine was never law per se. It was a standard held by the FCC from 1949 till 1987. While never enacted by Congress, the courts upheld the right of the FCC to uphold the standard for all licensed broadcasters on the basis that airwave transmission occurred over a finite amount of a public good. This is why the Fairness Doctrine wasn't deemed unconstitutional, whereas the same standard, applied to print press, would be held as patently unconstitutional. Proponents of repealing the standard argued that the doctrine had a chilling effect on public discourse. In the years after the repeal of the doctrine conservative talk radio absolutely exploded nationwide, which certainly justifies the concerns of the original proponents of the repeal. In the immediate aftermath of the Doctrine's repeal there were some sporadic attempts to revive it, but those late died totally during the Clinton administration. It has only been recently, with the abject failure of Air America Radio that Democrats, and Democrats exclusively have attempted to resurrect the Doctrine. The problem is the FCC has no interest, and the courts have ruled that this is at the discretion of the FCC barring any act of Congress. So, the push now is for Congress to make the Doctrine into law.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:33 pm
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