<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The Commission shall not have the authority to prescribe any rule, regulation, policy, doctrine, standard, or other requirement that has the purpose or effect of reinstating or repromulgating (in whole or in part) the requirement that broadcasters present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the ` Fairness Doctrine', as repealed in General Fairness Doctrine Obligations of Broadcast Licensees, 50 Fed . Reg. 35418 (1985). </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The Commission shall not have the authority to prescribe any rule, regulation, policy, doctrine, standard, or other requirement that has the purpose or effect of reinstating or repromulgating (in whole or in part) the requirement that broadcasters present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the ` Fairness Doctrine', as repealed in General Fairness Doctrine Obligations of Broadcast Licensees, 50 Fed . Reg. 35418 (1985). </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> Neither of these measures came to the floor of either house . </P> <P> On August 12, 2008, FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell stated that the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine could be intertwined with the debate over network neutrality (a proposal to classify network operators as common carriers required to admit all Internet services, applications and devices on equal terms), presenting a potential danger that net neutrality and Fairness Doctrine advocates could try to expand content controls to the Internet . It could also include "government dictating content policy". The conservative Media Research Center's Culture & Media Institute argued that the three main points supporting the Fairness Doctrine--media scarcity, liberal viewpoints being censored at a corporate level, and public interest--are all myths . </P>

When was the fairness doctrine repealed and why