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3. The Fairness Doctrine is No More

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 08:25 PM

Sep 18

So, why is this mofo asshole invoking it?

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The Fairness Doctrine was a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy (1949–1987) that required broadcasters (radio and television stations using the public airwaves) to:

1. Present controversial issues of public importance in their programming.

2. Do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced — meaning that contrasting viewpoints had to be given reasonable opportunity for coverage.

It wasn’t a law passed by Congress, but an FCC regulation, based on the idea that broadcast frequencies were a scarce public resource and licensees had an obligation to serve the public interest.

The FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, arguing that with the growth of cable TV and other media, there was no longer the same scarcity of voices, and the rule was seen as possibly limiting free speech.

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