One Of The Greatest Journalists Of Our Generation Has Been Fired - WTF?

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Well yeah it does, once removed, it can never be enforced. Obama removed it. It was no longer the rule after Obama. Clinton, Bush I and 2, and Reagan simply didn't enforce it.

WTF?
"The doctrine stayed in effect, and was enforced until the Reagan Administration.,in 1985.
"Fowler began rolling the application of the doctrine back during Reagan's second term".

Well yeah it does, once removed, it can never be enforced. Obama removed it. It was no longer the rule after Obama. Clinton, Bush I and 2, and Reagan simply didn't enforce it.

 

[bodecea]

Why are you so hostile and violent?

What is hostile about his comment?

 

[struth]

WTF?
"The doctrine stayed in effect, and was enforced until the Reagan Administration.,in 1985.
"Fowler began rolling the application of the doctrine back during Reagan's second term".

what don’t you understand? wait you are the idiot that didn’t know there where there co equal branches of govt

your quote in no way changes the fact it was on the books until obama removed it

prior to him it was simply unemforced since reagan…like your quote says

obama removed it as a law all together

 

[bodecea]

Pirro & Bartiromo are next...

FOX needs to cut their liquor bill....it's a prudent move.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Ooh internet tough guy! What would happen if you met Dan Bongino in person?

I would tell him what a jackass he is.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I'm sure he'll give you an autograph if you ask nicely.

Guess I will have to find the unemployment line.

 

[Batcat]

The Fairness Doctrine, enforced by the Federal Communications Council, was rooted in the media world of 1949. Lawmakers became concerned that the monopoly audience control of the three main networks, NBC, ABC and CBS, could misuse their broadcast licenses to set a biased public agenda.

The Fairness Doctrine mandated broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance. Congress backed the policy in 1954 and by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the “single most important requirement of operation in the public interest – the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license.

The Supreme Court upheld the doctrine. In 1969’s Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, journalist Fred Cook sued a Pennsylvania Christian Crusade radio program after a radio host attacked him on air. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld Cook's right to an on-air response under the Fairness Doctrine, arguing that nothing in the First Amendment gives a broadcast license holder the exclusive right to the airwaves they operate on.

The doctrine stayed in effect, and was enforced until the Reagan Administration. In 1985, under FCC Chairman, Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, the FCC released a report stating that the doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Fowler began rolling the application of the doctrine back during Reagan's second term - despite complaints from some in the Administration that it was all that kept broadcast journalists from thoroughly lambasting Reagan's policies on air. In 1987, the FCC panel, under new chairman Dennis Patrick, repealed the Fairness Doctrine altogether with a 4-0 vote.

A good summery of the history of the Fairness Doctrine.

However, nothing prevents a cable news outlet of presenting both conservative and liberal viewpoints.

 

[Leo123]

Do you consider Joe Biden to be a strong leader who is moral?

No

 

[Batcat]

No

Good. He definitely isn’t strong or moral. Just the opposite. Weak and corrupt.

 

[hadit]

Guess I will have to find the unemployment line.

I'm sorry for your situation.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I'm sorry for your situation.

I'm not the one who is unemployed. Pay attention!

 

[BS Filter]

Bye bye to the serial liar. He is one of the big mouths I would love to meet in person.

You better wear a diaper.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

You better wear a diaper.

You seem confused. Bongino is one of the biggest crybaby sissies on the planet.

 

[BS Filter]

You seem confused. Bongino is one of the biggest crybaby sissies on the planet.

Haha. Oh yeah. He could squash you with a stare.

 

[AMart]

Bongino can beat the fuck out of every lefty who posts here without breaking a sweat. You fag socialist pussies

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Haha. Oh yeah. He could squash you with a stare.

Hahaha, no. Bongino is a Grade A moron.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Bongino can beat the fuck out of every lefty who posts here without breaking a sweat. You fag socialist pussies

Ha, no he can't. Wow, you guys would pretty much line up to tongue his balls, wouldn't ya?

 

[BS Filter]

Hahaha, no. Bongino is a Grade A moron.

Oh yeah, he's stupid, huh.

 

[AMart]

Ha, no he can't. Wow, you guys would pretty much line up to tongue his balls, wouldn't ya?

He would beat your gay ass into Uganda

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Oh yeah, he's stupid, huh.

Definitely.