With the "anything goes" mentality of television and radio these days, we had no idea the Fairness Doctrine still existed. And now, finally, it doesn't.
On Monday, the FCC officially removed
the doctrine from its rulebook, although the policy hasn't been enforced for 25 years. The lack of enforcement helped usher in conservative talk radio, writes John Eggerton, and Republicans have been
particularly concerned about the possibility of the doctrine returning.
That possibility is now gone, along with other bygone rules that required free response time to personal attacks and
equal time for opponents when a station endorsed a candidate.
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