The RIP thread...

Interesting to read about the abolition of the 'Fairness Doctrine'. I've often wondered why that style of broadcasting was allowed:

At KRBK Limbaugh began to attract attention. In 1987, during the Ronald Reagan era, the Federal Communications Commission repealed the Fairness Doctrine, which had required users of the public airwaves to allow equal time if they broadcast political opinion. This opened the floodgates to the likes of Limbaugh, and in 1988 he moved to WABC in New York, which became the flagship for a 56-station network broadcast of his show, scheduled, unusually for talk, at midday. By 1990 he had five million listeners.

Lots of charming little anecdotes in here:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/rush-limbaugh-obituary