{"id":8553,"date":"2011-06-02T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2011-06-02T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T23:11:16","slug":"house-gop-tells-fcc-they-must-ensure-no-fairness-or-balance-on-our-public-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Tells FCC They Must Ensure No Fairness or Balance on Our Public Airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/164029-house-republicans-tell-fcc-to-take-fairness-doctrine-off-the-books\">From <i>The Hill<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The [Republican] leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday asking him to strike the Fairness Doctrine from the agency&#8217;s rulebook.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial rule, introduced in 1949, required broadcasters to present controversial public issues in a manner deemed fair and balanced by the FCC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fairness and balance?! On the airwaves owned by the people?! We can&#8217;t have that! Thanks for the watchdogging, Republicans!<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sueblueswilson\/statuses\/75698736029896704\"><i>Hat-tip Sue Wilson via Twitter.<\/i><\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Hill: The [Republican] leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday asking him to strike the Fairness Doctrine from the agency&#8217;s rulebook. The controversial rule, introduced in 1949, required broadcasters to present controversial public issues in a manner deemed fair and balanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,363,46,188,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairness-doctrine","category-fcc","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}