Steve Almond, writing in the Boston Globe, has an excellent piece on why the Fairness Doctrine should be reestablished (it was abolished in 1987, spawning the hate-radio culture we have today). Almond (I love this guy) goes ... So far the Obama administration has shown little interest in reviving the Fairness Doctrine, which would force broadcasters using public airways to provide an ...

... toward making money." Read more.... A prime target of the White House at Fox News speaks up and says that the "Fairness Doctrine" will not happen... but there is something even more sinister being set up. Perhaps this is part of the White House effort to show Iran that we are "fair" people. <a href=" ...

... least any time soon. It should, though, and Steve Almond explains why. P.S. Note that there are some talk show hosts (none on the right, really) who have already enacted their own independent versio of the Fairness Doctrine. For example, Thom Hartmann, who often invites on his progressive show people from the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and a ...

A Fairness Doctrine is not about squashing free speech, but it is about encouraging, enhancing, and broadening free speech.  The biggest threat to freedom is a narrow world view, a lack of education, and a lack of diversity in information.  If a person watches only Fox News, only CNN, only MSNBC, how informed are they.  They understand the liberal side, do they understand ...

... if the people railing against it had a better idea of that policy against which they campaigned. Because if they truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality - the ... quot; As a general matter, it's a shame that "fairness" has become such a pejorative expression to conservatives and it's too bad ...

... to 1987, then rescinded by Reagan's FCC. The doctrine had a huge chilling effect on free speech. ... (Joked about being the token liberal on the panel.) My view of the fairness doctrine: understandable but flawed, needs to be updated to reflect ... allowing someone who has been attacked to respond is not a foreign notion. But the fairness doctrine was admittedly difficult to administer. I agree ...

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So did you think that when Senator Jim DeMint's amendment slamming the so-called Fairness Doctrine passed the Senate 87 to 11, that freedom of speech had been saved from the totalitarian grasp of Team Obama? Uh, it might not be over yet. Mark Hayman over at The American Spectator has some very ...

... 8217;s Shut Up! America, and trying to wrap my head around his anti-Fairness Doctrine argument. It fell into place when I realized that ... the fees go toward supporting the federal government. The anti-Fairness Doctrine argument O’Leary makes ... O’Leary is why they think corporations should be privileged over citizens. The Fairness Doctrine was a (weak) effort to impel corporations to be ...

... DeMint (R-SC) passed with an 87-11 Senate vote that seemingly ended an attempt to implement the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." The inaptly named "Fairness Doctrine" is nothing less than government-imposed speech codes. Although the doctrine would not have likely survived Constitutional scrutiny, radio hosts and listeners alike thought a major ...