mybbqrules posted...
That absolutely got us started down that road, don't give me that. Did it not apply to AM radio too? You know, another place where massive amounts of right wing indoctrination go on?
Heritage Foundation-backed Reagan eliminates impartiality and fairness in news broadcasting and Murdoch-backed Faux News just happens to spring right up in it's wake within a decade? Puh-lease.
Yeah, the explosion of conservative talk radio, guys like Rush Limbaugh, absolutely did come about because of the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine. And that style of talk radio pretty directly informed what Fox News would be.