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The USA used to have a Fairness Doctrine. It required political viewpoints to have equal air time. It made politics much more boring. As it should be.
by cyberge99 5y ago
The USA used to have a Fairness Doctrine. It required political viewpoints to have equal air time.
It made politics much more boring.
As it should be.
- dragonwriter 5y agoEr, politics in the period of 1949-1985 was not, generally, “more boring” than 1985 to present. The last few years maybe have achieved the undesirable level of not-boring that was generally the case through most of the 1950s, 1960s, and much of the 1970s, but certainly overall the post-Fairness Doctrine period was more boring than the Fairness Doctrine period. (The Neoliberal Consensus is probably a bigger factor than the FD on that, though; it’s pretty hard to attribute much of anything about the overall tenor of politics to the FD.)