[VA_Gentleman]

The march toward implementing the fairness doctrine and suppressing the First Amendment begins.

[A. Morgan]

This looks like it’s way beyond the fairness doctrine!

[andy58-in-nh]

This is in fact an end run around the Fairness Doctrine, which liberals know would never pass through Congress.

Instead, Obama uses yet another "czar" - an Executive branch officer within the FCC accountable to no one except him. His purpose is to promote a "local control" policy whose primary impact would be to regulate programming to insure it focused on “diverse" views and government activities in the "public interest". In essence, private broadcasters would be taxed in order to support their governmental competitors - just like the "public option" in Obama's health care plan!

Among the many examples of incipient Fascism we have witnessed from this Administration, this is perhaps the most dangerous, and in my view, the most likely to incite something more than simple protest.

[GBA]

They'll never call it the “fairness doctrine” just as there aren't any “death panels” mentioned by name in the obamacare monstrosity, but it doesn't matter what they do or don't call it, the effect is the same. And they don't call themselves “domestic enemies” either, but they sure look like it from here.

[Munz]

>The march toward implementing the fairness doctrine and suppressing the First Amendment begins.<

yep, they don’t like protesters against their agenda like tea party goers, but what they like less is them getting attention.

Anything to stop it has to be top in their priority. Only government sponsored and approved media will be tolerated by Obama ... hes a socialist / fascist