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"The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was — in the Commission's view — honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC, which was believed to have been under pressure from then President Ronald Reagan, eliminated the Doctrine in 1987. The FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine, in August of 2011.
Those darn liberals!
The key words in the quote are "broadcast licenses". Fairness Doctrine would not apply to cable networks, and shows on satellite radio
There needs to be another choice in the poll. Yes - but it should apply to cable & satellite radio networks too.
"The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was — in the Commission's view — honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC, which was believed to have been under pressure from then President Ronald Reagan, eliminated the Doctrine in 1987. The FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine, in August of 2011.
Those darn liberals!
Yeah plattforms and talking points aside, both parties are anti-freedom. Im glad you cant get past your ideology and see it for what it is.
Trump & company just want to change libel laws instead so that he can go after any media outfit that dares open their months and say things he doesn't like.
Some supporter of the First Amendment he/you are...
No supporter of Trump but he is a lesser threat to the First than your ilk.
The second biggest problem with the Fairness Doctrine was it indoctrinated the two party system. Basically you got a dose of Democrat Party propaganda to counter Republican Party propaganda and vise versa. Nothing from the Libertarian or Green parties.
As you can see from this thread it is the left which wishes to impose censorship of political speech in this manner. They really want to kill talk radio and Fox News. Voltaire is dead.
Edited to add an opposing opinion.
People are stupid. They cannot be expected to manage their own lives including what they tune into on the radio, the internet or TV.
I used to be heavily against bringing this back. It was discussed a few times back in the early 2000s. However, I think the partisan bias in the media, on both sides, has become so out of hand that we no longer even know what's true and what isn't anymore. I think this is ultimately a great threat to the survival of our nation. Our reality is shaped by the news we consume and when we get our news from only sources that are biased towards our ideologies, we end up living in very different realities. This is why there is such a wide ideological gulf between Trump supporters and everyone else who gets their news from the mainstream media.
Do you think it's time to re-instate the "Fairness Doctrine"?
Of course not. The world is very different than it was in 1987. Three evening news networks, upstart cable news with CNN, some talk radio like Larry King and your local newspaper. It would be easy at that time for one ideology to take over all of that but not now.
And where would the line be drawn on what would be included in this fairness doctrine? Podcasts, blogs, news aggregates? Youtube? Facebook? Individual websites? International based broadcasts?
I want to see CNN and MSNBC destroy themselves.. with fake news...
And you believe these news sources are "fake news" just because your opinion differs from their news coverage? Your opinion is simply that: an opinion. And you know what they say about opinions. . . Simply saying something is fake news doesn't mean anything. Show us proof that these news sources are "fake news" (other than repeating the empty Trumpian claim over and over, that is). I'll wait.
I bet my life that if I went to any leftist protest and asked them what specifically they were protesting they wouldn't have an answer.
Both sides get their information from the media, the big difference is that the leftist media (CNN MSNBC) is fomenting violence with their lies.
You could get that fox guy, watters, to go and interview a hundred people and then only show clips of the ones who couldn't answer the question correctly. That is what he does for a living.
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