Fairness doctrine required balanced coverage of controversial issues, reasoning that broadcast spectrum was scarce and people couldn't roam the dial looking for diverse coverage of events.
Problem today is there are no facts, just opinions, hence ALL issues are controversial. NASA in the news? Better book a flat earther and a moon landing conspiracy theorist. Pope in the news? Book an atheist. Measles outbreak? Book an anti-vaxxer. FCC spectrum auction in the news? Get a guy who says RF is dangerous. I do remember the Vietnam War being a turning point, also probably Watergate. Previously the nightly news pretty much reported government press releases. But then networks started embedding reporters with the troops, and they started reporting inconvenient truths about the war. Remember SNL and Point-Counterpoint? "Jane, you ignorant slut!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 5:03 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - photo brings back memories of the JFK era Wouldn’t it be nice if they brought that back... Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 28, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Robert Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > & it was a legal requirement that news provide _both_ sides of an issue every > evening at 5pm, in return for their free access to the airwaves. > >> On 06/28/2019 02:05 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> And Walter Cronkite told us how thing were each evening and that is the way >> they were. >> *From:* Ken Hohhof >> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 2:54 PM >> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT - photo brings back memories of the JFK era >> News sites are reporting that Caroline Kennedy has put Jackie’s Martha’s >> Vineyard estate up for sale, and they are including some historical photos. >> Probably most of you were born after Nov. 22, 1963, and don’t have the same >> emotional reaction I did when I saw this photo. But it brought me back to a >> time when the country felt united and optimistic, and you could turn on the >> TV without being deluged with partisan politics. Things weren’t perfect, >> there were issues with racial and gender equality, and all that Cold War >> stuff, and yes there were divisions and politics. And while youthful and >> inspiring, the President was still a white male. >> But damn, I had forgotten what Lee Harvey Oswald took away from us, and how >> things have changed in 50+ years. I’ve also come across my dad’s home >> movies from the 50’s and 60’s, and those really were more optimistic and >> unified times (although I notice nobody is on their phone). People like my >> dad and uncle had come back from the war and were just raising their >> families, having backyard barbecues and birthday parties for the kids. No >> Fox News or MSNBC, and when the President went on national TV, everyone >> watched because it was something important for the whole country. >> Unfortunately that could be the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or an assassination >> in Dallas. >> Maybe a nice July 4 parade and some fireworks will cheer me up. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
