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Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine Won’t Cure What Ails Modern Media

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By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Zócalo Public Square. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact. You may opt out or contact us anytime. A couple listens to the radio in 1957. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. by ALLISON PERLMAN | APRIL 12, 2021 The Fairness Doctrine—the federal communications policy, in place from 1949 to 1987, that required U.S. broadcasters to address controversial issues and provide airtime to conflicting sides—is newly popular. Advocates for the policy’s return view it as a potential solution to divisive and destructive problems of our contemporary media environment, particularly as a way to mitigate disinformation in partisan media outlets. But restoring the original rule, especially with its narrow application to broadcast stations, woul

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Fairness Doctrine—the federal communications policy, in place from 1949 to 1987, that required U.S. broadcasters to address controversial issues and provide airtime to conflicting sides—is newly popular. Advocates for the policy’s return view it as a potential solution to divisive and destructive problems of our contemporary media environment, particularly as a way to mitigate disinformation in partisan media outlets. But restoring the original rule, especially with its narrow application to broadcast stations, would do no such thing. It’s useful

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