RIP Fairness Doctine

Really, the Fairness Doctrine has been dead since Reagan took a giant suffocating crap on it back in the 80s, so it's probably more accurate to say RIP All Hope of the Reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency will remove the Fairness Doctrine from the rule books in response to a recent request from House Republicans.

"I fully support deleting the Fairness Doctrine and related provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations, so that there can be no mistake that what has been a dead letter is truly dead," Genachowski wrote in a letter Monday to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

It was perhaps not until the Citizens United decision that a ruling had more devastating consequences for the health of the US democracy than the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

Now, where the Fairness Doctrine used to be, there's just a giant hole in the shape of Rupert Murdoch.