House Communications Subcommittee Has "No Plans" to Bring Back Fairness Doctrine

[Mr. Ected]

"Our subcommittee has no plans to reinstate the fairness doctrine," House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) told a group of broadcasters March 2.

Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters annual Washington meet-and-greet with legislators and regulators, Boucher said he didn't like some of the talk on the radio, but that was no reason for the government to get involved.

"I get irritated sometimes with what I hear, particularly on the radio. But a government requirement that political commentary be balanced by an equal amount of time devoted to a view on the other side is not the right way to address the irritation."

He said he was not sure exactly how to address his irritation, but that he continued to celebrate it as free speech and "part of the great American system," even if he sometimes didn't like it.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/449568-House_Communications_Subcommittee_Has_No_Plans_to_Bring_Back_Fairness_Doctrine.php

[Peregrine Took]

1. WIMP's. That's how the evil ones control the dialogue.

WIMPS.

[SargeUNN]

2. Fairness Doctrine, Let's reform instead

Fairness Doctrine isn't the thing I care to see, what I want to see is where you call yourself a news organization you are held to reporting news, not propaganda like Fox News, where you give the straight news and keep your opinions out of the report, and if you do commentary it is clearly identified as COMMENTARY. The situation today is too divided even among the right and among the left to have a real fairness doctrine, but what we need is NEWS that is not full of commentary that passes as news.