FEC/Amtrak project labled boondoggle by Indian River Commission Chairman

[buckethead]

The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The 1949 Commission Report served as the foundation for the Fairness Doctrine since it had previously established two more forms of regulation onto broadcasters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

[FayeforCure]

The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The 1949 Commission Report served as the foundation for the Fairness Doctrine since it had previously established two more forms of regulation onto broadcasters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

Yeah, one of those crucial moments in history that allowed opinion to pass for news and that led to the right wing propaganda radio stations to flourish (they didn't have to allow an opposing view anymore):

FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, was appointed by Reagan to head the FCC.[10] The commission began to repeal parts of the Fairness Doctrine, announcing in 1985 that the doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

That was the beginning of a rabid right wing shift in American politics, and the myth that America is a right of center nation.