HR 3302 - Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine

[Boris]

description of bill

Liberal congressmen are trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and force large media companies to divest some of their broadcast properties.

I don't have too much to comment on this other than I think the Fairness Doctrine concept is stupid. I hope the bill doesn't pass. But even if it does, Bush will veto so I'm not overly concerned.

For those who don't know, until the mid 80's, broadcasters were required to give airtime to multiple viewpoints when discussing political issues. I don't know how much time was required or how it was decided which alternative viewpoints received air time. But basically an AM talk radio station that aired Rush Limbaugh all day every day would no longer be able to do so. They would have to give some airtime a liberal blow hard as well.