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This key research from 1993 has been updated in James
Gattuso's new paper "Back to Muzak? Congress and the Un-Fairness
Doctrine" http://www.heritage.org/Research/regulation/wm1472.cfm
Legislation currently is before Congress that would reinstate a
federal communications policy known as the "fairness doctrine." The
legislation, entitled the "Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1993,"
is sponsored in the Senate (S. 333) by Ernest Hollings, the South
Carolina Democrat, and in the House (H.R. 1985) by Bill Hefner, the
North Carolina Democrat. It would codify a 1949 Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) regulation that once required
broadcasters to "afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion