{"id":136938,"date":"2018-09-05T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/remember-when-republicans-hated-the-fairness-doctrine.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:15:47","slug":"remember-when-republicans-hated-the-fairness-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/remember-when-republicans-hated-the-fairness-doctrine.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember when Republicans hated the “Fairness Doctrine”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the FCC between 1949-1987, mandating broadcast license holders to present controversial issues of public importance in a manner that was “honest, equitable, and balanced.” It didn’t mandate but often resulted in an “equal time” presentation of stances on such issues (if you had some guy talking about the virtues of gun control for ten minutes, you usually ended up with another guy talking about how awful gun control was for ten minutes).<\/p>\n

The doctrine was finally abolished under the Reagan Administration because of concerns that it resulted in the restriction of journalistic freedom. And I can recall times since when liberal upset over conservative domination of the radio waves led to conservative punditry and politicians condemning any thought of reinstating it.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems, Donald’s concern that too many people on the (non-licensed) Internet are saying too many mean things about him, without all the hypothetical people who might want hypothetically to say hypothetical nice things about him being able to get a hypothetical word in edgewise, might mean that the Federal Government does … um … something<\/i> to try and “fix” the “problem.” A new Fairness Doctrine? Breaking up of social media giants? More promotion of Trump tweets? Who knows?<\/p>\n

This is, of course, directly opposed to conservative thought for quite a few decades — but as the Trump era has shown, the GOP is willing to turn on a dime if it keeps that guy in the White House happy.<\/p>\n


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\nJustice to convene meeting on whether social media companies are ‘intentionally stifling’ free speech<\/a><\/span>
\nAttorney General Jeff Sessions has scheduled a meeting with state attorneys general in September to discuss a \u201cgrowing concern\u201d that tech companies may be \u201cintentionally stifling\u201d the free flow of ideas on their platforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the FCC between 1949-1987, mandating broadcast license holders to present controversial issues of public importance in a manner that was “honest, equitable, and balanced.” It didn’t mandate but often resulted in an “equal time” presentation of stances on such issues (if you had some guy talking about the … Continue reading “Remember when Republicans hated the “Fairness Doctrine”?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3,133,1071],"tags":[1503,1699,1077],"class_list":["post-136938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-censorship","category-trump","tag-censorship","tag-social-media","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jeff-sessions2-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/santorum-and-the-fairness-doctrine-for-higher-education.html","url_meta":{"origin":136938,"position":0},"title":"Santorum and the "Fairness Doctrine" for higher education","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Feb-12 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Between breaths talking about the evils of higher education yesterday (where faithful boys and girls go to be indoctrinated into atheism, don'tchaknow?), Santorum also unleashed this little bombshell idea.\"Just like we have certifying organizations that accredit a college, we'll have certifying organizations that will accredit conservative professors. 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