Fairness Doctrine
Proper noun
Meaning
the fairness doctrine
(US, broadcasting, historical) A policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949 and abolished in 1987, requiring the holders of broadcast licenses (i) to present controversial issues of public importance and (ii) to do so in an honest, equitable and balanced manner.
Examples
Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.
Since 2003, Rush Limbaugh, who got his working in radio as a teenager in the mid-1960s, has mentioned the Fairness Doctrine on nearly 150 episodes.
Politically oriented talk radio seeAlso seeAlso The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission 's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.
Unrestrained (by the Fairness Doctrine,) cheering for one's political party, and especially against the other, had become popular entertainment which rapidly changed the way politics nationally was discussed, perceived, and conducted.
The Reagan administration shelved the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
You could bring back the Fairness Doctrine and regulate the news with the FCC, but something something tyranny to shareholders originalism.