Fairness Doctrine Dead? Greg Walden Gets It Done

June 9, 2011

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Here’s a story about it. The Oregon Congressman apparently had something to do with this victory but won’t be commenting.  says the language was discovered still in regulation and the FCC Chair says he’ll surgically remove it.

Here’s the money quote:

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a letter to a House Republican leader this week that the agency’s effort to identify and eliminate “antiquated and outmoded rules that unnecessarily burden business, stifle investment and innovation, or confuse consumers and licensees” will include a recommendation to delete the Fairness Doctrine.
“I fully support deleting the Fairness Doctrine and related provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations, so that there can be no mistake that what has been a dead letter is truly dead,” Genachowski wrote to Rep. Fred. Upton, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. “I look forward to effectuating this change when acting on the staff’s recommendations and anticipate that the process can be completed in the near future.”

Do you believe him? Me neither.

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