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Re: The crazy conservatives are using "Fake news" and "Cosmopolitan "
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Mn63h
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Date: January 08, 2018 08:42PM
From wiki:
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of viewpoints. In 1969 the United States Supreme Court upheld the FCC's general right to enforce the Fairness Doctrine where channels were limited. But the courts did not rule that the FCC was obliged to do so.[4] The courts reasoned that the scarcity of the broadcast spectrum, which limited the opportunity for access to the airwaves, created a need for the Doctrine.
So the fairness doctrine applied to broadcasters, (not print) because airwaves were limited. A lot has changed since 1949. The truth wasn't readily available to folks back then. Now the truth is freely accessible, with very little searching, and folks don't care. They just want to jabberjaw and point fingers and be insulting and smug. On both sides. Gerrymandering is our problem, not this.