Reagan helped destroy 'The Fairness Doctrine.' Back when there were only a limited number of TV and radio channels available for broadcast, the government had strict rules, One was that any time a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for a response. Another was that no one could own more than one TV station in an area.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that last bit would clip Sinclair's wings a bit, but if we brought the Fairness Doctrine back in it's old incarnation it wouldn't cover cable or internet productions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

One other thing Reagan changed. He allowed the networks to run half hour long kids' commercials with names like 'GI Joe' and 'The Transformers.'