Rush Limbaugh started on radio right after Reagan vetoed the Fairness Doctrine, which was set to become law for the second time in 1980. Since Limbaugh was using the public airwaves, which belong to all of us, he would have been forced to present equal time to the opposing views of his radical ideas every day. Limbaugh was so profoundly …
Rush Limbaugh started on radio right after Reagan vetoed the Fairness Doctrine, which was set to become law for the second time in 1980. Since Limbaugh was using the public airwaves, which belong to all of us, he would have been forced to present equal time to the opposing views of his radical ideas every day. Limbaugh was so profoundly influential in spreading the right wing propaganda that my father became addicted to it and became radicalized in a way that I no longer recognize him anymore.
Believe it or not, the Fairness Doctrine was actually law at one time and was simply being renewed by this new passage. While it was initially limited to just broadcast on the airwaves, and not to cable, there's no reason that a new fairness Doctrine couldn't be written to include media of all kinds. Because not only do the airwaves belong to the American public, but so does cable television. Yes some cable companies have helped pay for the lines that they put into the ground, but the American taxpayers have financed over $200 billion for cable to be delivered throughout the land.
There are also satellites that taxpayers have paid for and now another 83 billion has been enacted in order to ensure high speed internet will reach the more remote places in the United states. In other words all media belongs to the taxpayers and we have a right to see that both sides of every issue are presented on every station about every topic.
Rush Limbaugh started on radio right after Reagan vetoed the Fairness Doctrine, which was set to become law for the second time in 1980. Since Limbaugh was using the public airwaves, which belong to all of us, he would have been forced to present equal time to the opposing views of his radical ideas every day. Limbaugh was so profoundly influential in spreading the right wing propaganda that my father became addicted to it and became radicalized in a way that I no longer recognize him anymore.
Believe it or not, the Fairness Doctrine was actually law at one time and was simply being renewed by this new passage. While it was initially limited to just broadcast on the airwaves, and not to cable, there's no reason that a new fairness Doctrine couldn't be written to include media of all kinds. Because not only do the airwaves belong to the American public, but so does cable television. Yes some cable companies have helped pay for the lines that they put into the ground, but the American taxpayers have financed over $200 billion for cable to be delivered throughout the land.
There are also satellites that taxpayers have paid for and now another 83 billion has been enacted in order to ensure high speed internet will reach the more remote places in the United states. In other words all media belongs to the taxpayers and we have a right to see that both sides of every issue are presented on every station about every topic.
I hope you will repost this on a future Schmidt Substack. It's very worthwhile.