The Fairness Doctrine was repealed 30 years ago.

[njhoneybadger]

The result is 63 million morons who voted for an Idiot to be president. And a society that seems to be obsessed with guns and/or is willing to believe guns are the answer for every problem.

[john657]

1. I'm trying to figure out what repealing the Fairness Doctrine

has to do with this?

[Mr.Bill]

2. For one thing, it facilitated

outlets like Fox News and the way they operate. Which is labeling phony bullshit as news without presenting an opposing viewpoint.

[john657]

4. Ok

Thanks for the info.

[rock]

11. Exactly right

This allows them to easily lie.

[njhoneybadger]

12. Thank you.

[X_Digger]

19. They're cable. It wouldn't have applied to them anyway.

Did you not know that?

[Mr.Bill]

20. But they are an extention of right wing talk radio.

And that could not have existed under the Fairness Doctrine.

[X_Digger]

21. What the what? Did you listen to *any* AM radio in the 70's? Apparently not.

That shit DID exist under the fairness doctrine.

I don't know where you were at the time.

[Mr.Bill]

22. It was nothing like it is today.

[X_Digger]

23. We apparently had different stations. n/t

[bearsfootball516]

3. Led to an explosion of right wing talk radio, Rush Limbaugh

Which then led to Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, etc.

It was a chain reaction that started with repealing the fairness doctrine.

[TheSmarterDog]

18. This

[YessirAtsaFact]

5. Unbalanced Talk radio wouldnt be possible if it was still in effect

They could not spew toxic right wing hate without being interrupted periodically by a different point of view.

It would be harder to sell the alternative universe that some RW loons live in if a liberal talked on their radio once in a while.

[john657]

7. Got it.

[spanone]

6. If it were still around fox may have never existed

[jalan48]

8. The Fairness Doctrine was introduced in 1949. Lawmakers saw the effects Nazi propaganda had

on the German populace and wanted to institute a measure in the US that would keep similar propaganda efforts from happening here. With its repeal we now see what they originators were afraid of.

[appalachiablue]

13. Bingo, fact! The 1949 Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987 during Reagan.

With media deregulation in the 80s came RUSH and Hate Radio; FOX TV in the 90s with the 1996 Telecom Act deregulation.

[MichMan]

9. It never applied to cable stations

[unblock]

10. true, but foxnews probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground were it not for hate radio

[appalachiablue]

14. Correct, few on the left seem to care or try to do smthg. about it, which is nuts.

[yardwork]

15. It's been downhill fast since then.

[slater71]

16. If we aren't careful...

Trump is quietly working with the FCC to allow Sinclair Broadcasting to buy up all the media they can. In the areas they own stations now they only allow right wing news and responses. It is dangerous and more so now that there is so much other shit is going on distracting what they are doing.

[uponit7771]

17. +1, 50% of republicans thought Pizza Gate was real ... they're that stupid