The true story of the Fairness Doctrine begins long before the first major implementation of the doctrine in 1963, back before the rule was enacted in 1949, back all the way to the Radio Act of 1927.

The Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast licenses. Fox News is a cable network, and therefore wouldn't have been bound by its rules. Our fact-check sources: ...

The Fairness Doctrine may be a political non-starter, ... So are we going to see formal reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine, or passage of the Screw Rush Limbaugh Act of 2009?

Forget the Fairness Doctrine. ... this core responsibility remains in the Communications Act today. Today, however, the act once again simply has no teeth.

The act is rooted in the media world of 1949, ... The Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance, ...

The Fairness Doctrine, ... abundant protections that tech companies enjoy under legislation like Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act—which effectively immunizes social media ...

Conservative lawmakers, joined by some liberal allies, sought to head off reinstating the so-called Fairness Doctrine on Thursday as they pushed a vote on the issue. Fairness Doctrine back in play ...

The fairness doctrine was removed over three decades ago, ... for free speech or a loss of the immunity protection under the provision for them with the Communications Decency Act. ...

In anticipation of its elimination, Democrats pushed to enshrine the Fairness Doctrine into law with the Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987. But Reagan vetoed the bill , and the FCC officially ...

In making the controversial decision to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, Patrick and his colleagues abolished a decades-old rule that had governed how Americans received the news.