A new study focuses on the relationship between the White House and the media in the years since Woodrow Wilson, but it gives short shrift to the 19th century.
Fairness Doctrine
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The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
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How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump
The decision by the Reagan administration has given us three decades of broadcast news that recklessly reaffirms prejudices.
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No, Charlie Sykes, There’s No Merit in Spotlighting Crackpots
As if Bret Stephens wasn’t bad enough, now the New York Times turns over valuable op-ed space to longtime Wisconsin right-wing radio host and frequent MSNBC guest Charlie Sykes–you know, the guy who hates Donald Trump but thought Scott Walker was just swell. Sykes tries to defend the sleazy decision by Megyn Kelly and NBC […]
