Think around the Clinton era they got rid of some laws that prevent the media frim lying as much. I think only over air broadcast and PBS are held loosely to the original law. They can still have an opinion piece and every night the old people watching get to hear the opinion of a conservattive media mogul tell them what to think, like Sinclair and the other one I forget.
Forgot to mention that Reagan killed the fairness doctrine. Man that guy really fucked America up
I don’t think that is correct, the Fairness Doctrine couldn’t apply to MSNBC because they are a cable TV station. The govt. can only regulate licensed spectrum, i.e. actual broadcasts which use the public airwaves. The FCC licenses that spectrum to broadcasters, that is what gave them the capacity to impose the Fairness Doctrine. They have no authority over non-broadcast media like cable TV or the internet.
I think it’s cute that you think it took them all the way to the Clinton presidency for them to strip away those protections against propagandized media.
Think around the Clinton era they got rid of some laws that prevent the media frim lying as much. I think only over air broadcast and PBS are held loosely to the original law. They can still have an opinion piece and every night the old people watching get to hear the opinion of a conservattive media mogul tell them what to think, like Sinclair and the other one I forget.
Forgot to mention that Reagan killed the fairness doctrine. Man that guy really fucked America up
they also got rid of ownership-limits, used to he a hard cap on how much press/media landscapr a single person/company vould own.
now, 1 vompany owns 70% of radio across the US (and they give free air to republican/aipac politicians)
The Fairness Doctrine would force MSNBC to air the views of far right cretins. It doesn’t make sense in the modern media landscape.
I don’t think that is correct, the Fairness Doctrine couldn’t apply to MSNBC because they are a cable TV station. The govt. can only regulate licensed spectrum, i.e. actual broadcasts which use the public airwaves. The FCC licenses that spectrum to broadcasters, that is what gave them the capacity to impose the Fairness Doctrine. They have no authority over non-broadcast media like cable TV or the internet.
I think it’s cute that you think it took them all the way to the Clinton presidency for them to strip away those protections against propagandized media.