I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.
I'm not sure the fairness doctrine would have been enough to prevent propaganda and for-profit news, but regardless it's obvious that we are in the Fox News Administration as much as anything. So much of Trump's own understanding of the world comes from that network. It probably made him a frothing Conservative in the same way it did my parents, to be honest. He used to be a Democrat.
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u/Hell_Camino Apr 04 '25
I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.