FCC Finally Buries 'Long Dead' Fairness Doctrine
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
By Matt Cover

Julius Genachowski, FCC

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in his office in Washington on March 12, 2010. (AP File Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

(CNSNews.com) – Twenty-four years after it stopped enforcing the Fairness Doctrine, the Federal Communications Commission is finally abolishing the regulation that mandated broadcasters to air both sides of a political issue.

“The elimination of the obsolete Fairness Doctrine regulations will remove an unnecessary distraction,â€