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The Divided Dial

99% Invisible

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The Fairness Doctrine - Rush Limbaugh, Mike Pence

The end of the fairness doctrine was a permission slip to kind of say whatever he wanted. Rush gave voice to the grievances of a lot of people who were resistant to changes in culture and power. By 1995, about two thirds of political talk leaned right. In the 1990s, Rush inspired me to start a radio broadcast of my own.

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