Fairness Doctrine: FCC Finally Does the Right thing

The Fairness Doctrine, a bane to freedom loving people everywhere and a darling of the Type 2 Big Government bureaucrats, has been dropped by the Federal Communications Commission.  Now, one might think this has been done because the Doctrine is basically anti-freedom and anti-1st Amendment.  But, the FCC being one of those federal agencies that loves regulations, has been pushing the Fairness Doctrine for years.  No, the Doctrine has been dropped because President Obama has asked for fewer regulations and the FCC has used the opportunity to scrap 83 rules and regulations that they have been unsuccessfully pushing for years, perpetually scaring freedom-lovers and wasting copious amounts of time, energy and money with hearings.

Hooray!  See here:  FCC-to-drop-fairness-doctrine

FCC Chairman Genachowski:  "The elimination of the obsolete Fairness Doctrine regulations will remove an unnecessary distraction...The Fairness Doctrine holds the potential to chill free speech and the free flow of ideas and was properly abandoned over two decades ago. I am pleased we are removing these and other obsolete rules from our books."

BUT:  Has the Obama Administration also dropped the efforts put forward by the Diversity Czar to produce a "Localism Doctrine?"  Smoke and Mirrors is one of the central tenets of the BO Administration...