Charles W. Chook Bryant

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much.

I mean, it fell along those lines back then and still does today, even though the fairness doctrine isn't around, the ideology is.

Yeah, so it had a couple of main components and then within that a couple of big, big rules, very important rules.

The first – the components were – they were known together as the fairness rule, which is private broadcasters must report on matters of public interest.

That's right.

And private broadcasters must cover opposing perspectives regarding that public interest.

That's a big one.

And then the little rules there, the personal attack rule said that—

If you're a broadcaster and you are going to run a negative story on somebody or something, prior to that, you have to let these people know or this organization know and give them time to respond on the air.

And then the political editorial rule, which is private broadcasters that air editorial programming that endorses a political candidate must inform other candidates and offer them time to respond on air, not to be confused with the equal time rule.

That's different.

The Titanic ship, the very one, Chuck.

That's right.

Leading up to the Titanic, you know, radio was being used quite a bit in maritime communication.

In fact, we even passed the Ship Act of 1910, which required ships leaving the United States to have radio equipment, to know how to use it, and sort of laid out some basic broadcasting standards.

But what they didn't do was say, all right,

We're going to assign radio frequencies and we're going to like reserve a channel for emergencies only.

This kind of stung them because a couple of years after that, a little boat called the RMS Titanic sank.

It wasn't a little boat.