The Fairness Doctrine was a good thing

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3. Fairness Doctrine, begun 1949, post WWII. Ended 1987 under Reagan.

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The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the FCC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced.

The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011. The fairness doctrine is not the same as the equal-time rule. The fairness doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the equal-time rule deals only with political candidates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine



Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, radio and motion pictures became powerful instruments of fascist propaganda and hate during the 1920s-1940s.

Father Charles Coughlin, popular Michigan 'radio priest' broadcast speeches during the 1920s and 1930s Great Depression. His bigotry, anti Semitism and pro fascist views were so offensive that it took FDR, the Vatican and Joe Kennedy to bring him down. The radio priest is considered the 'father of right wing radio.'