A Fairness Doctrine policy must be imposed on taxpayer-funded influential assets in Australia, particularly state-owned media.

The perversely named Fairness Doctrine, which threatened licensed broadcasters with fines if they didn’t “afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views,” as the government ...

Enacted in 1949, the Fairness Doctrine mandated that holders of public broadcast licenses present multiple perspectives on important public issues. This act was fueled by a paranoia that the big three ...

The FCC is not likely to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, but Congress might still act to re-impose such a regulatory scheme. The Fairness Doctrine, introduced in 1949, required broadcasters to cover ...

This summer, three Democratic senators have called for a return of the Fairness Doctrine, a misguided concept that required broadcasters to provide a forum for different viewpoints when discussing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservatives and libertarians also strongly object to reviving the Fairness Doctrine, under which the federal government ...

We live in a world of partisan media, in an ecosystem in which facts can go unchecked and opinion forms the reality for many audiences. But it didn’t used to be this way. In the 1940s, concern over ...

In many of the right’s legacy institutions, the prospect of regulating or breaking up Big Tech is regarded as an affront to any number of long-standing principles, from limited government and free ...

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In 1949 the Federal Communications Commission, commonly known as the FCC, introduced the “Fairness Doctrine,” which sought to create a level playing field when it came to national issues and political ...

The Democrats in Congress have started to talk about reviving the Fairness Doctrine—the abandoned FCC policy that required broadcast outlets to present controversial public issues in what the agency ...

Edward Everett Hale, a chaplain on Capitol Hill for the early 1900s and a celebrated writer, was once asked, “Do you pray for the senators?” Hale replied, “No. I look at the senators and pray for the ...