The plaintiff in Ames was a straight woman passed over for a promotion in favor of a lesbian colleague and later replaced by ...

The article discusses Flanders v. Goodfellow, where the court overruled its previous ruling that barred negligence claims ...

In 1949, the Fairness Doctrine was created to replace the earlier Mayflower Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine was created because lawmakers were concerned that the three mega media networks ...

That was the day that Patrick, then FCC chairman, and his colleagues unanimously voted to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, a policy that had mandated broadcast networks to fairly present differing ...

The Fairness Doctrine applied to broadcast licensees only, not cable networks. It required broadcast stations to "afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of ...

In 1949 the Federal Communications Commission, commonly known as the FCC, introduced the “Fairness Doctrine,” which sought to create a level playing field when it came to national issues and ...

In many ways, the ongoing debate over Big Tech is the reemergence of an intra-conservative rift that dates back to the 1980s: the battle over the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine ...

Our current state of national division boiled up in another surprising meme that went viral after Limbaugh's death: Calls to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. What's the Fairness Doctrine?

In the 1960s, the FCC began enforcing another outgrowth of the public interest mandate which was known as the Fairness Doctrine. It stipulated that station owners had an obligation to provide ...

How did he do it? First, his fortunes rose directly in response to the Reagan administration’s suspension of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. Second, he made politics into entertainment in a new way.

Limbaugh’s talk radio program was not possible until the Federal Communications Commission relaxed the fairness doctrine. That policy, which began in 1949, was rooted in the idea that radio and ...