Searching On The Fairness Doctrine

I used Google to look at the counts of 'Fairness Doctrine' in the news archives, and there are distinct waves in the number of mentions of the term in the news. There was one big wave around 1950, apparently when conservatives were trying to use the 'Fairness Doctrine' to break liberal hegemony over the news. Then there is another wave in 1987, when the 'Fairness Doctrine' was dropped. There was a third, smaller wave in 2007 regarding efforts to revive the 'Fairness Doctrine' to put FOX News out of business and/or defend FOX News. Check it out!

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