Newsmax Staffers Hit With Subpoenas in 2020 Election Defamation Suit

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Newsmax Staffers Hit With Subpoenas in 2020 Election Defamation Suit
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Court filings rife with internal communications exposed Fox News’ post-election misinformation push. Newsmax could be next

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To think where we could be if Reagan hadn't of torn down The Fairness Doctrine.

To think where we could be if Reagan hadn't of torn down The Fairness Doctrine.

@Ganondorf the fairness doctrine was only for broadcast media, the FCC was able to regulate it because it used public bandwidth. It wouldn't have applied here. We'd need different regulation.

That's a good point. I haven't ever watched NewsMax so I'm unclear how it's broadcast, but now that you've brought it up I assume it's streamable and therefore immune from the TFD.