Toggle open close 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