Can You Envision a Balanced Media?

Help Keep the Momentum Going!

Since last week, thousands of progressive-minded Americans have signed Democratic Way's letter calling on the FCC to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting.

Despite their initial success, it will take tens of thousands of signatures to get the FCC and big media to take notice.  If you haven’t already signed the letter to the FCC, please do so now.

Can You Envision a Balanced Media?

Please support DemocraticWay.org's campaign to pressure the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting.

The FCC did away with the Fairness Doctrine during the Reagan administration.  This measure simply required that broadcasters, as a condition of retaining their licenses, offer balancing views on controversial issues.  The nearly forty year-old regulation was an important safeguard that prevented television and radio broadcasters from always presenting the news from a single point of view.

Because of that ill-advised FCC decision, major media conglomerates like Clear Channel and News Corporation (Fox News) no longer provide any meaningful platform for minority opinion or dissent.  Furthermore, these conglomerates are becoming increasingly aggressive in using the public airwaves to promote their own views and interests, often in direct conflict with the public interest.

Please sign the letter to the FCC asking that the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting be reinstated.  This was a very important public safeguard that is needed more today than ever.

Visit www.democraticway.org and learn more about how you can help “fight the right” and join their mission to restore America’s great, progressive party.

View the letter to the FCC at http://www.democraticway.org/petition.php