The Federal Communications Commission may have killed off the controversial Fairness Doctrine this week, but conservatives -- offering faint praise for the move -- are sounding the alarm over what they see as backdoor attempts by the Obama administration to regulate political speech on the airwaves.
They point to ownership diversity and "localism" as other ways Democrats can try to keep the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine alive and silence conservatives and Christian broadcasters.
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We don't need the fairness doctrine here in the US. What we need is what Canada and the UK do. If your station classifies itself as a news station it is required to broadcast factual information and not knowingly mislead the public. If found to be knowingly lying or spreading false information they are fined, if they continue they can eventually be shut down.
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