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Radio silence how progressives lost the airwaves. After Ronald Reagan struck down the

fairness doctrine and the equal time rule Republican moneyman got the memo.

Whichever party controlled the most states would have a big edge in both the Senate and

those control the Supreme Court nominations and the Electoral College and most of the

low and medium population states had relatively inexpensive media markets. You could buy

or lease radio stations for less than a party might spend over a four-year

electoral cycle on advertising. So why not simply acquire a few hundred stations

across a dozen or more states

and simply program them with right-wing talk radio 24-7.

This became particularly easy after Bill Clinton signed the neoliberal telecommunications act of 1996 that ended limits

on how many radio or TV stations a single corporation or billionaire could own.

Within months of that bill passing into law, Clear Channel and

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