The Right Wing, Trump and Media Fairness Rules
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read

Oh No! Not the Briarpatch!
As Nicole Hemmer points out in The Washington Post, Republicans have historically been on both sides of the debate about whether we need enforceable standards for media fairness, standards that gave us the likes of Walter Cronkite. In the post-WWII period Republicans tended to oppose such standards, while in the 1970s and 80s (when they…

