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(07-10-2018, 02:51 PM)Benton Wrote: Maybe it's just my age, but I don't think partisanship was as big of an issue until the late 70s, maybe late 80s with the death of the Fairness Doctrine. Parties were always an issue, but they were loose and it wasn't uncommon for the party to change ideology. You didn't have the "us vs them" mentality you do now. 

And I don't see that changing. There was a poll a while back about reviving some kind of Fairness Doctrine. Media were against it, and the general public was against it. The only ones seemingly in favor are a bunch of Democrat lawmakers, so if it ever gets brought up again, you can bet it'll be labeled as 'fascist big government takeover of fair and balanced news sources.' Hell, I'd like to see Dems introduce it just to watch Trump have to call for the defense of journalism... for about 5 minutes.

Your fairness doctrine wouldn't touch the cable networks.  They'd be able to get Rush which is what they really want anyway.  I'm sure he'd just head over to XM. But you don't hear much from the left about rush anymore. I think the Fox hysteria has taken over.