The original doctrine was adopted as a rule by the FCC in 1949 and repealed in 1987. Is the Fairness Doctrine really an attempt to have every voice heard or is it just another way to hear what you ...

Limbaugh railed against the doctrine with fellow pundit Glenn Beck in August 2009, saying "What they're trying to do here to communications is simply stifle dissenting voices," he told Beck.

Nevertheless, the Fairness Doctrine never applied to cable networks; it applied only to broadcast radio and television stations. So, when Fox News launched in 1996, it would not have been subject ...

Thus the Fairness Doctrine became history and news for information sake was coupled with news for entertainment sake. People like Rush Limbaugh took advantage of broadcasting events with his own bias.

In making the controversial decision to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, Patrick and his colleagues abolished a decades-old rule that had governed how Americans received the news.

In the 1940s, concern over the dominance of the then-three major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, led Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to establish the Fairness Doctrine, a policy ...

In the 1940s, concern over the dominance of the then-three major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, led Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to establish the Fairness Doctrine, a policy ...