On This Day: August 4, 1987 — The FCC Killed the Fairness Doctrine and Changed Radio Forever
If you grew up in the ’80s, you remember the radio as a lifeline — the dial you twisted every morning, the DJ who felt like a friend, the station that played your songs. But on August 4, 1987, a four-person panel of government bureaucrats in Washington made a decision that would quietly, irreversibly, rewire…
