The Senate today added a ban on the Federal Communications Commission reintroducing the Fairness Doctrine to proposed legislation giving residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote. The Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to offer equal time to differing viewpoints, was abolished...
It didn’t take long in the new Congress for Republicans to mount a fresh attempt to head off any bid by the Federal Communications Commission to revive the fairness doctrine, an old requirement that broadcasters have to provide equal time for competing political viewpoints. Yesterday, on the first day...