Urgent!-We need to make a huge investment in our Democratic voice.

[Boxerfan]

This is a basic fact & a tool we should be using.

AM airwaves and most media are dominated by voices unfriendly to actual democracy. File this under "Duh!".

How did it get this way?. The Repukes invested decades ago in various media outlets local stations nationwide.

And they had Churches & various organizations all acting in a directed methodical manner to eliminate all competition.
This means that every local in America has easy non stop access to hate speech & propaganda.

This is not a coincidence at all.

And it is so bad Oregon has Zero liberal AM stations even Eugene Oregon lost the station they had when a church group bought it.

And they don't care if they change it to sports in a flooded market or something entirely unprofitable. That was not the point-the point is to eliminate an honest discussion about our Democracy.

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We are so far behind on this issue I fear there may not be time to implement it. But the Americans who want to fund the fight need to invest in the message being heard. And for a large majority of 9-5 and blue collar workers AM radio is king.
I can't believe this has been so ignored.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. The Fairness Doctrine

The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the Commission's view—honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.

That was a stake in the heart of democracy.