re: #55 Belafon

The end of the fairness doctrine was the beginning of this.

Nah I blame CNN. It all started with the birth of the 24 hour news station. If you are going to try to go from the 30-minutes to 1 hour of evening news most people were accustomed to, to around he clock coverage, something was going to have to give in the pursuit of ratings.

The fairness doctrine only covers holders of public broadcast licenses so it wouldn’t have had any effect on any of the cable news yahoos.