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Nevertheless. We are not losing because it disappeared.
With or without the Fairness Doctrine, that 40 year struggle with media for-profit hype has not absolved us of our responsibility to remember the difference between fact and opinion; stand up for the facts, and not believe any media hype.

Letting hype affect us is a decision. Remaining committed to facts and context is what matters.

Many here like me are no spring chickens, and have lived during years of the Fairness Doctrine and 40 years since its abolishment.
Still, at any age anyone can still decide to hold on to knowledge of the difference between
fact and opinion,
buried fact and hyped opinion, and the difference between
authoritative fact based opinion, and 'those familiar with the matter' opinion.

We know information from news; we know from fact based perspectives, not fact free perceptions.

We Democrats, imho, are now the Fairness Doctrine.