Jul
16
2009
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Democrats Prepare to Squelch Talk Radio
On Wednesday night, the Democrat-dominated Rules Committee killed the proposed Walden-Pence Broadcaster Freedom Amendment. The amendment would have prohibited FCC funding from being used to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, which reigned on broadcast airwaves for nearly four decades.
Some attribute the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 to the popularity and success of conservative talk [...]
