"NOOOOOO! THIS IS UNFAIR!" screams the red hatters who worship the guy who repealed the media fairness doctrine.
"Only our side are allowed to be biased, misleading or hypocritical in reporting. This is cheating!"
Ah yes, it’s the Soywegian who, hailing from Soyway, is intensely preoccupied with American politics. Oh, Cod Breath is also clueless which is par for the course for foreign welfare state cucks.
:> Various Democrat presidential governments used the Fairness Doctrine to harass their political opponents by means of radio. During the Kennedy administration,
Bill Ruder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, said that "Our massive strategy [in the early 1960s] was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope that the [legal] challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."
At the FCC, Martin Firestone's memorandum to the
Democratic National Committee presented political strategies to combat small, rural radio stations unfriendly to Democratic politicians:
The right-wingers operate on a strictly-cash basis and it is for this reason that they are carried by so many small [radio] stations. Were our efforts to be continued on a year-round basis, we would find that many of these stations would consider the broadcasts of these programs bothersome and burdensome (especially if they are ultimately required to give us free time) and would start dropping the programs from their broadcast schedule.
Wayne Phillips, of the
Democratic National Committee staff explained that "Even more important than the free radio-time was the effectiveness of this operation in inhibiting the political activity of these right-wing broadcasts".
On August 4, 1987 the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4–0 vote, in the
Syracuse Peace Council decision.
Sitting commissioners at the time of the vote were:
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Patricia Diaz Dennis, Democrat
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James Henry Quello, Democrat
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Dennis R. Patrick, Republican
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Mimi Weyforth Dawson, Republican