I think it was in Rushs first book that he explained it very well, how the end of the Fairness Doctrine opened the marketplace wide open.
“But if it wasn’t for the Fairness Doctrine being trashed, talk radio wouldn’t have taken off as it did.”
I’ve heard that said many times, but there was talk radio before the fairness doctrine was eliminated, and somehow it was mainly liberal and one-sidedly so. The fairness doctrine didn’t stop that.