{"id":1109,"date":"2007-07-30T04:42:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2007-07-30T04:42:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:42:42","slug":"confidence-warranted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Confidence: Warranted?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noodles at Freedom Dogs notes FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s pinky-swear that the Commission has no plans to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Every once in awhile something that makes sense and shows some level of rational thinking comes out of Washington.\u00a0 This is one of those times<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Communications Commission\u00a0has no intention of reinstating the\u00a0Fairness Doctrine \u00a0imposing a requirement of balanced coverage of issues on public airwaves, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Martin, in a letter written this week to\u00a0Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and made public Thursday, said the agency found no compelling reason to revisit its 1987 decision that enforcing the federal rule was not in the\u00a0public interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course there’s no compelling reason – now.<\/p>\n

But if we have a Democrat president and a Democrat Congress?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compulsion will likely follow, in the form of a slew of Democrat nominees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chairman Martin’s word is only as good as his appointment, and as good as the strength of the Free Speech advocates on the Commission.<\/p>\n

Any bets, if Hillary! takes over?<\/p>\n

Of course\u00a0we all know why this came up in the first place,\u00a0it is clear that Democrats want to silence any opposing views to their own.<\/p>\n

Several Democratic lawmakers suggested that Congress take another look at the doctrine after conservative radio talk show hosts aggressively attacked an immigration reform bill when it was on the Senate floor, contributing to its defeat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even with all of their clamoring one only need to take a look at the wide variety of information sources available today to know that the Fairness Doctrine has no place in the current marketplace of ideas and news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If it were about practicality, reason, or fact, there’d never be a question.<\/p>\n

But it’s about quashing dissent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noodles at Freedom Dogs notes FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s pinky-swear that the Commission has no plans to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine: Every once in awhile something that makes sense and shows some level of rational thinking comes out of Washington.\u00a0 This is one of those times. WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Communications Commission\u00a0has no intention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}