• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Read up on roger Ailes and Reagan destroying ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’

    Back in the day, you could only own two radio stations in one town [AM and FM] and any editorial had to provide time for rebuttal.

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          And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement.

          He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do.

          And he did it all for tax cuts.