Media choices are in no small part policy choices—and then media feeds back into policy. The current media landscape rose from the fall of the fairness doctrin

Media choices are in no small part policy choices—and then media feeds back into policy. The current media landscape rose from the fall of the fairness doctrine in the 80s, a Chicago-school-driven sharp shift in anti-trust enforcement (initially) via the judiciary starting in the mid ‘70s, and the removal of rules prohibiting concentration of media outlet ownership in the ‘90s and early ‘00s.