As CBS Radio News goes silent today after almost a century on the air, a parallel development is that the U.S. has stopped demanding that media serve the public interest, historian Matthew
Jordan writes in an article that appeared in Nieman Lab. “Principles that once had broad public support — producing public interest news as a quid pro quo
for licensing, limits on foreign ownership and
fairness rules that required stations to give equal time
to both sides of an issue —
faded away,” Jordan adds in recounting the history of CBS Radio News.advertisement
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