"A Key Element in the Development of the Highly Partisan Journalism and Other Media That Envelop Us Today"

"Almost overnight, the media landscape was transformed. The driving force was talk radio. In 1960, there were only two all-talk radio stations in America; by 1995, there were 1,130. While television news on the old networks and the cable upstart CNN still adhered to the standard of objectivity, radio emerged as a wide-open landscape."

Al Tompkins at Poynter explains how the end of the Fairness Doctrine led to the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.