Summary
Consider the words of Bill Ruder, President Kennedy's assistant secretary of commerce: "Our strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass rightwing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue." "There's nothing fair about the Fairness Doctrine," is how U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican and former talk-show host, put it in June before the House voted 309 to 115 in favor of his bill to block any future president or the Federal Communications Commission from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
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Fairness Mongers
IT'S AN OLD STORY. Political scientists and foundations bemoan "voter apathy." Then when the electorate gets engaged, whether if s on taxes or immigration reform, the concern flips and there is talk about the negative impact talk radio has in stirring passions up. Lib...
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