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The Divided Dial

99% Invisible

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The Fairness Doctrine

The fairness doctrine was that piece of policy that required stations to present multiple perspectives on coverage of controversial issues. Reagan's FCC points to a new thing called cable television to say that that scarcity argument isn't really relevant anymore. The idea was that with cable, there are now tons and tons of channels.

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