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Senate Rejects Fairness Doctrine

by @ 4:37 pm on February 26, 2009.

The Senate today voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment that would bar the re-imposition of the fairness doctrine:

The Senate voted Thursday in favor of an amendment to the District of Columbia voting-rights bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which critics say would decimate conservative talk radio.

The Senate passed the measure 87-11.

Ordinarily it would seem unlikely that the House would pass a bill like this, but as long as it’s tied to the D.C. Vote bill I’m not sure what they’re going to do with it.

Could a dispute over the Fairness Doctrine be enough to kill that unconstitutional monstrosity ?

I could only hope.

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