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Mary Jo Melone: The end of the Fairness Doctrine led us to Donald Trump

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In a time long, long ago โ€” in the late 70s and early 80s โ€” and in a land far, far away โ€” Philadelphia โ€” I was a radio journalist. This was so strange a time that AM radio counted. Stranger still, if you spun the dial (this was still possible), you didnโ€™t hear much sex or shouting. You could, however, hear plenty of stupid. In a cheerfully rough city, that was politics. Strangest of all, it was remarkably civilized,…

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