FCC: Fairness Doctrine losing relevance

by angryindian | July 26, 2007 at 09:52 am

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This is not good news and points out why portals like NowPublic are becoming more and more important to the free transfer of information on the Internet. - The Angryindian

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The Federal Communications Commission has no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine imposing a requirement of balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said.

Mr. Martin, in a letter written this week to Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, and made public today, said the agency found no compelling reason to revisit its 1987 decision that enforcing the federal rule was not in the public interest.