Fundies: Fairness Doctrine...would force Fundie radio to promote abortion and "homosexual lifestyle" [View All]

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:wtf: They get nuttier by the minute.



from the American Family Association's One News Now:



'Fairness Doctrine' not so fair
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 7/8/2008 10:05:00 AM

Members of Congress don't seem to want to budge on blocking the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" from again being imposed on broadcasters.

Last summer, 100 Democrats signed on to a one-year ban on implementing the Fairness Doctrine. Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) is working on getting that ban passed this session. "...ow almost a year after filing , not one single Democrat has signed a petition to give us an up-or-down vote on the House floor," he points out.

The Fairness Doctrine, which was reversed after 40 years, essentially gives the government the right to censor broadcasters, says the lawmaker. "The primary danger of the Fairness Doctrine is that it would bring back content regulation to the airwaves of talk and Christian talk radio," warns Pence. According to the Indiana Republican, re-implementing the policy would mean, for example, that stations critical of abortion and the homosexual lifestyle would be forced to give proponents equal airtime.

"The federal government actually had the power (when the policy was in effect) to come in and dictate that radio stations that dealt with controversial issues would have to carry an equal amount of programming representing the alternative point of view," Pence explains. "You know, that sounds very reasonable and very fair, if you will -- but the net effect over those four decades was not that radio stations that carried conservatives also carried liberals. It was that stations didn't carry any talk programming or Christian programming at all."

Efforts to establish a liberal radio network -- Air America Radio -- have not met with the same success as conservative and Christian talk radio. After launching in early 2004, that network filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2006 and was sold to Green Family Media the following March.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=169074