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We’re in the find out phase of ending the Fairness Doctrine
You can thank Ronald Reagan…
Yep, this country wasn't over when Trump got elected either time. He's a symptom of this country's death in its current form under the current constitution.
Reagan was the deathblow, this has just been leftover momentum, that appears to have finally waned. From Trickle down, to legalized bribery, to conversion of their former opposition party into neoliberal corporate bribe takers, to ending real news in favor of corpo serving propaganda like "climate change is a hoax to sell books, CONSUME" on and on.
Trump's authoritarian rise is just akin to vultures helping themselves to the corpse. This country has been little more than an oligarch exploitation piggy bank for half a century.
Yes it would be painful, but we'd need to tear it down and start over, as the core constitutional mechanisms for change have been circumvented through intential propaganda to sow division and protect the sociopathy of our economy from the citizens it hurts and murders for private profit. But we won't out of cowardice, so climate change will do what we're too social opiate addicted and fearful to do in a couple decades when it will hardly matter anymore.
The fairness doctrine didn't do what you think it did.
Mind adding context?
I probably should have said "wouldn't" rather than "didn't". It's grossly out-of-date and would be a gross violation of the first amendment if it were to be tried as people want it to be.
It applied only to "holders of broadcasting licenses". That is - "old timey television and radio" that was broadcast over the airwaves. The reasoning being that the airwaves are a limited resource (there can only be so many TV and radio stations in a given area) so the government didn't want a single entity to monopolize all of it with a single voice.
But it wouldn't apply to the internet, cable TV, or any other modern form of communication. It wouldn't do anything to Twitter. It wouldn't even effect Fox News (the cable station) or NewsMax.