Earlier this week, the FCC announced it would officially strike 83 “outdated media rules” from its books, including the Fairness Doctrine, which should not be confused with the equal-time rule.
The Fairness Doctrine hasn’t been enforced in over 20 years and that lack of enforcement has been cited for the rise of right-wing talk radio in the late 1980s and 1990s, including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. If that logic is true, then it has also helped Air America, Fox News, and MSNBC diverge as conservative and liberal voices, as opposed to providing “straight news.”
Was the FCC correct in not enforcing and, ultimately, doing away with this regulation?
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