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I testified before the FCC on media consolidation last fall in Seattle and Robert McDowell is a jerk. He doesn't give a d*** what anybody in America wants. He's just a Bush tool. He basically disregarded every single thing that people in the audience said. People had traveled from as far as Montana and California to testify. Since the FCC had only given three days notice, many people from small radio stations had to drive because they couldn't afford the last minute plane ticket prices. So my take on it is that after Obama wins, McDowell will be gone from that post.
In any case, the reason that I believe that the fairness doctrine would not apply to the Internet is because there is no limit to the amount of information that is offered. It's different for radio because there is a finite number of public frequencies allowed for radio broadcasts.
The fairness doctrine has been brought up again because of the propaganda that has been so prevalent on talk radio since 9/11 that led us into war on Iraq. If challengers to the war had not been suppressed then the truth would have gotten out into the public and we would have saved trillions of dollars that we have wasted in Iraq.
I think that the fairness doctrine should be very important to people in the communication field. If you want to learn more about it's history, see this article:
> I've just heard that they have included a clause to expand this to the
> Internet and regulating Internet content. How far does a
> thing like this
> go? Would it be implemented *only* on political/religious
> points of view
> (what is planned for radio), or to *ALL* points of view? How
> would this
> impact those of us with opposing points of view for professional
> practice? For example, the old Word vs Frame argument?
>
> Can anyone suggest how to research this more fully. Were you aware of
> this issue? Does this not amount to censoring the Internet?
>
> Or am I taking things out of context?
>
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