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And yet the Fairness Doctrine was the rule for 38 years, and the US Supreme Court agreed it was within the purview of the FCC to do so. It's not about free spe

• bhupy 6y ago
  But that was only in the context of radio broadcasting, where there is a scarcity of frequencies. Even while it was active, the Fairness Doctrine never applied to cable television: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-fairness-doctrine/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-fairness-doc... https://fair.org/extra/the-fairness-doctrine/ https://fair.org/extra/the-fairness-doctrine/ "Since cable’s infrastructure is privately owned and cable channels can, in theory, be endlessly multiplied, the FCC does not put public interest requirements on that medium." In the context of cable news and journalism on the internet (basically infinite supply), there's no version of the Fairness Doctrine that would hold up.