There is a DIRECT correlation to Reagan getting rid of the “Fairness Act” and the rise of FOX News, AM Rant-Radio, and outright lying in Political Ads. Generally, the downfall of America is tied directly to that single action (which is why he did it.)
“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.
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Yet it was supposed to loose the bonds of the free market to bring about all the safeguards of regulation along with the heavily promoted “cornucopia of news and public affairs programming” via that same gushing, once Fairness-stoppered, conduit. Now, vast chunks of digital infrastructure remain empty while wholly network-owned reality shows about whores trickle out of a neutered medium.