Wasn't the fairness doctrine about "fair time" in the media? I agree Reagan bad, cable also exempted but I honestly never understood that fair doctrine addressed falsehoods.
It didn’t. She’s wrong.
The FD was a policy for local broadcast stations licensed by the FCC for the spectrum to devote some airtime at their discretion to diversity of views. It never was a law. It never prevented lies. It never regulated news.
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