Posted by: Dale Franks on Thursday, June 28, 2007 Well, I must say this is unexpected. The house has voted to approve a measure that will hamper the ability of the FCC to re-impose the fairness doctrine. The amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations bill prohibits funds from being used by the Federal Communications Commission to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters. The amendment passed 309-115.Please, don't bore me with arguments that, under the Fairness Doctrine, broadcasters will give both sides a fair hearing in talk radio or whatnot. I worked in broadcasting, doing a daily radio show in the #2 media market in the country. I know how broadcasting works. If the fairness doctrine is re-imposed, talk radio will go back to the boring crap it was before Reagan scuttled it: boring little talk shows about sports, celebrities, and authors. About the only popular talk radio show with any chance of continuing successfully will be the whackjobbery that Art Bell pulls off overnight. Broadcasters are simply not going to operate in an environment where the FCC could come down on their neck because they shorted the local anti-zoning freaks 5 minutes of airtime. Nobody wants that kind of trouble. Instead, they'll just slap on some Deep Purple or Poco CDs and be done with it. |
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