ANOTHER WINGNUT BOGEYMAN BITES THE DUST

(h/t Tom Taylor)

Radio gasbags have been trying for years to scare the rubes about the return of the Fairness Doctrine and although I know this won't stop most of them, here's a little reality:

FCC chairman agrees to strike Fairness Doctrine from rulebooks
By Gautham Nagesh - 06/08/11 12:12 PM ET
The Hill

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency will remove the Fairness Doctrine from the rulebooks in response to a recent request from House Republicans.

"I fully support deleting the Fairness Doctrine and related provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations, so that there can be no mistake that what has been a dead letter is truly dead," Genachowski wrote in a letter Monday to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

"I look forward to effectuating this change when acting on the staff's recommendations and anticipate that the process can be completed in the near future."

Taylor brings up another group that also opposed the Fairness Doctrine:

(The Fairness Doctrine is a bete noire of the National Religious Broadcasters.)