the Fairness Doctrine

obv the fall of this led to things like Breitbart and Fox News. but on the other hand, I don't like the idea of a news network being required to play both perspectives as that can lead to less-discerning people to think both sides are on equal ground (imagine a vaccine news report having to carry the perspective of an Andrew Wakefield dick-rider).

and no matter whether it exists or not, everybody says it's a 'liberal media' anyway.

thoughts??? sorry for the US-centric thread here :(

in the broader view i think the emphasis on the doctrine is excessive, particularly since a lot of the change was due to the internet, where the "fairness doctrine" could never have been practically enforced. doctrines are merely a codification of social norms.

My understanding is that the FD only applied to opinionizing, not news, so a vaccine news report would not require an anti-vax anything.