Posted on 02/26/2009 11:57:20 AM PST by TCH
Just got this in from a fellow patriot... Cannot get confirmation... Nothing on Drudge, yet.
Saying “no” to resuming it you mean?
Another post stated the DeMint Bill passwed, which tables that Fairness Doctrine.
About an hour ago on FOX:
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is pushing for an amendment Thursday to outlaw the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” in a move that could prove more symbolic than fruitful.
The South Carolina senator has attached his amendment, called the Broadcaster Freedom Act, to a bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House.
But Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has also proposed an alternative bill to be debated at the same time. That proposal would order the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership “diversity.”
A DeMint aide said Durbin’s measure will “impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership.”
Passes 87-11.
Jim DeMint twitters updates from the floor. Check it out. Pretty cool you can send him messages.
What passed 87-11?
I don’t trust Durbin at all.
Demint resolution tabling Fairness Doctrine. For now its revival is dead.
Does Durbin’s bill provide money to democrats for radio ownership causing an imbalance in ability to operate?
Rush spoke of it briefly today.
I hear that census takers are going to be in area tommorrow but will not be going door to door...that makes no sense. How do you take a census at a restaurant?
What happened to it ? Do you know ?
Hopefully, this new proposal by Durbin will be aired out for the folks to see.
It seems to be a Trojan Horse.
“diversity” will be the death of liberty.
Senate bars FCC from revisiting Fairness Doctrine
Feb 26 03:58 PM US/Eastern
By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has barred federal regulators from reviving a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that required balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves.
The Senate vote on the so-called Fairness Doctrine was in part a response to conservative radio talk show hosts who feared that Democrats would try to revive the policy to ensure liberal opinions got equal time.
The Federal Communications Commission implemented the doctrine in 1949, but stopped enforcing it in 1987 after deciding new sources of information and programming made it unnecessary.
President Barack Obama says he has no intention of reimposing the doctrine, but Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., say they still need a guarantee the government would not establish new quotas or guidelines on programming.
Misleading title.
It’s dead.
Watch what happens to Durbin’s bill.
The DeMint bill could be nothing but political cover for many.
Durbin’s legislation passed 57-4.
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