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Definition of fairness doctrine in US English: fairness doctrinenoun A former federal policy in the US requiring television and radio broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance. Example sentencesExamples - The culture has only developed since 1987, when the fairness doctrine was abolished under Ronald Reagan; like UK regulations are supposed to today, it guaranteed balanced political representation on radio and TV networks.
- Typically, this is regarded as a story of wonderfully successful deregulation, because the effects of eliminating the fairness doctrine were precisely what was sought and intended.
- For someone who advocates for the fairness doctrine, you seem very resistant to hearing an opposing point of view.
- The former head of CBS, Fred Friendly, describes the real effects of the fairness doctrine in his excellent book The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment.
- The fairness doctrine's eradication in the late '80s spurred the entire talk radio phenomenon that has swept America.
Definition of fairness doctrine in US English: fairness doctrinenoun A former federal policy in the US requiring television and radio broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance. Example sentencesExamples - The fairness doctrine's eradication in the late '80s spurred the entire talk radio phenomenon that has swept America.
- For someone who advocates for the fairness doctrine, you seem very resistant to hearing an opposing point of view.
- The culture has only developed since 1987, when the fairness doctrine was abolished under Ronald Reagan; like UK regulations are supposed to today, it guaranteed balanced political representation on radio and TV networks.
- Typically, this is regarded as a story of wonderfully successful deregulation, because the effects of eliminating the fairness doctrine were precisely what was sought and intended.
- The former head of CBS, Fred Friendly, describes the real effects of the fairness doctrine in his excellent book The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment.
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