#fair tv

[amrillalae]

[amrillalae]

The initiative to the people for getting the “Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987 S. 742” into Washington state law.

A friend of mine helped me officially sponsored getting the “Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987 S. 742” into the people’s common knowledge after a lot of signatures.

The prior FCC rule during Reagan’s era was preventing lies on television.

I’m aware that a lot of people thought the reverse was true, but no. Reagan hired a new FCC chairman to repeal the rule so journalists couldn’t talk about his actions so openly and availably.

Without this law, extremist echo chambers like fox news are allowed to exist. Fox news in particular having been incepted not long after the FCC rule was appealed because they desired it this way.

The fairness doctrine prevents airwaves from disallowing any given person to speak on that airwave about an opposing idea in relation to news or politics.

The fairness doctrine ensures that journalists who want to have a say on a channel promoting only one side of the story, can do so. It is called the fairness doctrine for this reason. Fair assessment of news and political stories are all it ensures. Without it, echo chambers are legal on tv news and official sites. Lies on tv news are legal without the fairness doctrine. Comedy, jokes, and personal opinoins are legal both with and without the fairness doctrine. It only ensures you get a say on any airwave without your side of the related news or political story.

I hope that clears up any misconceptions.

Let’s make TV fair again!

[amrillalae]