Bring back the Fairness Doctrine

Media outlets are not "fair and balanced" but only serve to reenforce existing predisposition of viewers/listeners or reflect the agendas and bias of the particular outlets' financiers. For the sake of a well-informed public the Fairness Doctrine should be re-instituted.
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The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both 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 decided to eliminate the Doctrine in 1987, and in August 2011 the FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine.