US Fascism Has Arrived Thanks to 30 Years of Right-Wing Talk Radio Dominance
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The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.
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Ronald Reagan started the fight to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Back in the Cronkite Era, if a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for opposing views.
Rush Limbaugh and his gross career owes its entire existence to that. He is someone who believes that drug dealers and smugglers need to be shot without trial... and he himself was a drug dealer when he was hard for cash.
Tells you a good deal of what kind of person we're dealing with here.
I just want to point out that this dude is dead in case you hadn't heard that piece of good news.
Oh I know he's dead. Best part is he is so old school that he dies at the age of 70. Which was the life expectancy of that time period.
that probably ranks near the bottom of the worst things he's said and done list.
And Clinton put the final nail in the coffin with the telecom Reform Act.
Reagan/Bush era lasted 1988 to 1992.
But yeah, let's blame Clinton and ignore the GOP controlled Congress.
Hold my beer!
-The Telecommunications Act of 1996