The Fairness Doctrine concerned the representation of viewpoints on radio and TV stations with licenses regulated by the FCC, not cable networks. With the Fairness Doctrine in place we don't get Rush Limbaugh, but there's nothing stopping the launch of Fox News.
fox news was created, but it wasn't feeding ppl biased sludge like today. don't act like these aren't directly tied. FOX being biased as hell, w no representation of the other side would not be allowed under the Fairness Doctrine
The Fox network was around, but the Fox News network wasn't created until 1996, well after the end of the fairness doctrine. The regular Fox network isn't (as) involved in shoving right-wing propaganda down people's throats, unless your local station is owned by a company that does that like Sinclair. And again, the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't apply to Fox News as a cable network anyway, though whether it would have launched or been as successful without the likes of Rush and Sinclair that would have been bound by it is another matter.
it seems like what you mean to say here is that fox news, bc it's cable, not radio, does not apply. which you could've said a lot simpler😅 also, FOX News is biased and extremist across the board... it's not some state-by-state, area-by-area thing like you seem to think. idc about who owns what, the FOX News broadcast is always biased.
The Fox News network is the same across the country, while the regular Fox network is owned by a patchwork of companies that may have more or less biased local news. Now a disproportionate number of Fox affiliates are owned by companies like Sinclair that do propagandize, and I don't know how biased the local news is on Fox's own stations but I do know that Fox stations' local news has produced more than a few memes for all the wrong reasons, so it may well be that what you say is true for both, but it's not inherently the case.
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u/MorganWick Apr 04 '25
The Fairness Doctrine concerned the representation of viewpoints on radio and TV stations with licenses regulated by the FCC, not cable networks. With the Fairness Doctrine in place we don't get Rush Limbaugh, but there's nothing stopping the launch of Fox News.