FCC’s McDowell: It’s all Fairness Doctrine to me
"I think it won't be called the Fairness Doctrine by folks who are promoting it," warned McDowell back in late August, after voting against the FCC's recent sanctions against Comcast's P2P throttling policy. "I think it will be called something else and I think it'll be intertwined into the net neutrality debate."
Who is calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine anyway? Not Obama. Not Freepress's Craig Aaron. Not the FCC's two Democrats. So who? Like a gossip whispering in the hallway, McDowell won't name names.
"Recently, several prominent Members of Congress have called for its restoration," he claimed at the Media Institute. Hope he's not referring to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), who did not call for its restoration in a TV interview, but did point out how inconsistent it is for conservatives who support indecency rules (like McDowell) to inveigh against government regulation.
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