Abstract
The Fairness Doctrine, from its inception in the 1940s to its demise in the 1980s, epitomizes American broadcast law in flux. In adopting the broadcast policy, the → Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States intended broadcast licensees to make reasonable effort to discuss controversial issues and to do it fairly by affording equal treatment to conflicting viewpoints. But the doctrine was abolished in 1987 by the Reagan administration, which thought it had outlived its usefulness (→ United States of America: Media System; Radio Broadcasting, Regulation of; Television Broadcasting, Regulation of).
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