Kim (Kimbly)

I don't remember which year where you actually had to like people like Rush Limbaugh couldn't couldn't be on the radio if the Fairness Doctrine had been enforced because the station would require

equal time to someone with an opposing point of view.

And so that gave rise to the partisan talk radio boom.

So to me, government doing things to quash the journalism troubles me a lot.

The shows, if they're not doing public affairs shows, I think the FCC could step in and say, okay, you need to have these balanced public affairs shows to serve the public interest.

Anytime any kind of censorship is discussed, the Democratic side discussed it a lot, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, that

the whole free speech thing was an obstacle to them.

I'm very much a free speech advocate, and I would hate to see a heavy hand of government cracking down, but if there are specific things they are doing to deliberately exclude all sides, I could see fines, but I couldn't see anything more,

Yeah.

Ratings have been declining on cable news for years.

And as more news outlets become available, most of us get the news on our phone right now.

In fact, if I see a news story being teased, I don't have to stick around for the news.

I can look it up and see what it is and go about my day.

So these stations, these broadcast stations are losing their power.

And I think that will continue.

But there is an event in history, journalism history, that might be relevant and interesting.

I don't know if you've heard the term yellow journalism.

Yeah.

The 19th century newspapers in New York, they were running stories that were sensationalized.

with fabricated facts, sounds like fake news, crime, scandal and more.