This assignment asks you to succinctly summarize and analyze legal arguments while tasking you with creating public policy to achieve a social good as the FCC attempts to do. Please complete the following sections. Use the style and citation guide on page 2 to help you properly cite your work.

Section 1 - Legal Precedents - 500 words In this section, please summarize the Circuit and Supreme Court’s relevant decisions including not only the outcome but the legal reasoning justifying those decisions.

Section 2 - Critiques - 500 words Using the Fairness Report as your basis, please summarize the essential critiques of the Fairness Doctrine including the legal reasoning and or analysis of the media environment supporting the criticisms.

Section 3 - Arguments for Resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine - 500 words In this section, you will be doing your own internet and periodicals research to identify and explain the most important arguments for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. See page 3 for help in doing research using the library’s databases.

Section 4 - Choose and Defend a Policy Position - 1000 words In this section, explain what should be done by the FCC in our current media environment to achieve the end of providing citizens with the fair and thorough coverage of controversial topics which may or may not include bringing back the Fairness Doctrine .

Make use of the research and arguments from sections 1-3 to support your position. This section must:

1. Detail your policy solution keeping in mind the legislative charge of the FCC to regulate public airwaves

1. What would you do?

2. How would you do it?

2. Explain how this policy achieves the goal of informing the public about controversial issues

1. How does your policy achieve the stated goal?

3. Address likely counter-arguments to your position

1. Why is your policy better than other policies or the status quo?