My apologies to you, my FR friend. I made a feeble attempt at humor, and I missed the mark with you. My bad. Sorry.
There is NO “Fairness Doctrine.” It was invented by ex-Speaker of the House Dickie-Doo-Doo Gephardt from Missouri, when Newt took over as Speaker of the House. Poor Dickie-Doo-Doo, couldn’t handle the winner-take-all rules for House Chairmanships, so he tried to weasel some chairmanships, or Co-Chairmanships from Newt by inventing this silly “Fairness Doctrine.”
So I made my very poor attempt at humor invoking THEIR Doctrine (which doesn’t exist) against them.
My lesson to me: don’t try to make jokes when I might have to explain them later.
The FCC ‘Fairness Doctrine’ dates to 1949 under Truman and Reagan ended it.