Reagan helped destroy ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when there were only a limited number of TV and radio channels available for broadcast, the government had strict rules, One was that any time a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for a response. Another was that no one could own more than one TV station in an area.
Yeah that last bit would clip Sinclair’s wings a bit, but if we brought the Fairness Doctrine back in it’s old incarnation it wouldn’t cover cable or internet productions.
Reagan helped destroy ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when there were only a limited number of TV and radio channels available for broadcast, the government had strict rules, One was that any time a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for a response. Another was that no one could own more than one TV station in an area.
Yeah that last bit would clip Sinclair’s wings a bit, but if we brought the Fairness Doctrine back in it’s old incarnation it wouldn’t cover cable or internet productions.
One other thing Reagan changed. He allowed the networks to run half hour long kids’ commercials with names like ‘GI Joe’ and ‘The Transformers.’