Considering the Fairness Doctrine did not and could not apply to cable channels, neither Fox News nor MSNBC (or CNN) would be affected if it was still around.
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Messed that up in the post; Bluesky doesn't allow post editing. Intended was to say that their programming would have been affected if it were on a broadcast channel. In my ominous, the doctrine should have been expanded to cable.
It wouldn't have survived - the reason why the Fairness Doctrine was held to be constitutional relied in large part on the limitations imposed by the broadcast spectrum. That limitation doesn't exist on cable, which means trying to expand it to cable would have run directly into 1st amendment issues
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