[EAS] Fairness Doctrine backgrounder

[Mike McCarthy]

No dispute here....

However, I do find it interesting the government visa-vi the FCC compels
licensees to carry the advertising of federal office candidates. More
over, at lowest rate unit for cost.

That would seem to be compelled speech far more than anything we have
debated so far regardless of the fact there is compensation and no taking.

MM

On Mon, August 29, 2016 1:20 am, John Willkie wrote:
> http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1939&conte
> xt=lawreview
>
> The 'holding' of the decision: "The intrusion by government into the
> content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of the Fairness
> Doctrine restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters ... [and]