From Pine View Farm

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The writer of a letter to the editor at NJ.com thinks it’s time to close the cable TV loophole.

Methinks the writer has a point.

The regulation of radio and, later, television was based on their using a public resource, that is, the airwaves. In its very early days, cable was exempted from regulation on the theory that it did not use the airwaves and therefore should be exempt. (Mind you, this was back when the “fairness doctrine” still applied to broadcast media.) Cable has grown to dominate, even in areas where broadcast is freely available.

And it, like the internet, has become a disinformation superhighway (primarily for “news” organizations that lean right, because the truth leans left).

For example.

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