”It’s about time” the FCC fully junked the fairness doctrine,...

"It’s about time” the FCC fully junked the fairness doctrine, as Chairman Julius Genachowski said this week it will do (CD June 9 p14), the National Religious Broadcasters group said. “The failure to have removed it by now appears to have been be an anomaly, but it continued to fuel justified suspicions that the free-speech-strangling rule was not really dead after all,” NRB General Counsel Craig Parshall said Wednesday. “We look forward to the Chairman launching an immediate Commission action to make his intent official.” An FCC report on media’s future, released at Thursday’s meeting, recommended the rule be deleted, noted Steve Waldman, who wrote the study. “You've already taken care of that one, I can cross that one off,” he said about the report’s recommendations.