FCC's Chessen: Fairness Doctrine talk is 'conspiratorial'

Federal Communications Commission Acting Chief of Staff told House Commerce Committee Chief Counsel Roger Sherman earlier this year that concerns about reviving the so-called Fairness Doctrine are "conspiratorial." The two exchanged e-mail to coordinate a strategy of responding to an Internet report on reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would force stations to make equal time for liberal and conservative talk radio.