The Fairness Doctrine

By through the mid 70s the fairness doctrine is as discussed has been used to really shut down overtly political right-wing radio. There's this big sizura between the end of this period I'm describing by the early 70s and the return of overtly right wing political radio It by the 1980s and the key here is both Um, so the regular administration in 1987 Officially drops the fairness doctrine rules. They say they formally say, you know, we're not following the fairness doctrine anymore but it actually starts before that folks often think of ronald reggan is the great deregulator because we did with air traffic controllers and the like. But it's actually jimmy