Meet the FCC commissioner who wants to control the news | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Meet the FCC commissioner who wants to control the news | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created a rule requiring broadcasters to cover issues that the government deemed important, and to do so in a way that the government found “honest, equitable and balanced.” If a broadcaster did not agree to abide by this rule, the FCC reserved the right to revoke the station’s broadcasting license. This rule was called the Fairness Doctrine. The FCC abandoned it in 1987. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, a socially conservative Democrat appointed to the FCC in 2001, would like to bring it back."