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Posted: May 1st, 2009. Comments: none
FCC Chairman Copps and Diversity Committee Chairman Rivera Talk of Bringing Race War to Broadcast Corporations
WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire/ –
By Brad O’Leary of the O’Leary Report
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission’s “Diversity Committee,” chaired by Fairness Doctrine proponent Henry Rivera, made it clear that they were going force the President’s supporters into positions of power within the broadcast industry.
FCC Chairman Michael Copps forcefully denounced the current racial and gender make-up of the broadcast industry and called its lack of diversity “a shameful state of affairs.” Copps then asked the Committee: “Is it any wonder that minorities are so often stereotyped and caricatured and that the positive contributions of the minority community are so often overlooked?”
Posted: May 18th, 2009. Comments: none
US Senate Rejects Second Attempt To Ban Fairness Doctrine
By Fawn Johnson, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposal to bar the Federal Communications Commission from reinstating the defunct “Fairness Doctrine” rule for broadcasters.
Posted: March 12th, 2009. Comments: none
US News & World Report
By Dan Gilgoff
Posted February 26, 2009
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson remembers hosting The 700 Club in the days before the “fairness doctrine” was lifted-and he doesn’t want to go back. A Federal Communications Commission rule that was in effect until 1987, the fairness doctrine required TV and radio stations to provide contrasting points of view to controversial opinions. If a station failed to balance a conservative argument from Robertson or his guests with a liberal one, viewers or listeners could file a complaint with the FCC, which might force the station to either comply or risk losing its license.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009. Comments: none
The Hill Newspaper
By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 02/26/09 04:58 PM [ET]
Conservatives fear that Democrats are pursuing a “back door” approach to cracking down on Clear Channel Communications, the media conglomerate that airs “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” a favorite among conservatives.
The Senate voted along party lines Thursday to adopt an amendment sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the second-ranking Democrat in the chamber, that directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.”
Posted: March 1st, 2009. Comments: none
CNN - February 13th, 2009 - More and more Democrats in Congress are calling for action that Republicans warn could muzzle right-wing talk radio. Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York is the latest to say he wants to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine,” a federal regulation scrapped in 1987 that would require broadcasters to present opposing views on public issues.
“I think the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” Hinchey told CNNRadio. Hinchey says he could make it part of a bill he plans to introduce later this year overhauling radio and t-v ownership laws.
Posted: February 14th, 2009. Comments: none
