Who Needs the Fairness Doctrine

In a straight party-line vote, Democrats chose to adopt Sen. Durbin's Amendment 591 on 2/26/2009

The Durbin Amendment is the answer to the resistance of the "Fairness" Doctrine. “Its clear to me that Democrats, having failed in their frontal assault on talk radio in America through the Fairness Doctrine, are now shifting strategy to a form of regulation that is essentially the Fairness Doctrine by stealth,” Pence, R-Ind

Pelosi, D-Calif., has thrown her support to an amendment in a Senate bill that directs the FCC to explicitly “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest,”
In a straight party-line vote, Democrats chose to adopt Sen. Durbin's Amendment 591

The primary text of the Durbin amendment reads:

SEC.9 FCC Authorities. (a) Clarification of General Powers. – Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 303 (47 U.S.C. 303) the following new section:

SEC.303B. Clarification of General Powers. (a) Certain Affirmative Actions Required – The Commission shall take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.

The airwaves will be in the power of those that withstand groups like the ACLU... who will shut down whomever they choose with endless law suits. Another example of the communitarian philosophy stealing our liberties.