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Amidst Misinformation, Critical Thinking Crucial

To the editor: I have become more and more disillusioned by the amount of misinformation that keeps getting cited as facts, so I did a bit of research as to how and why we are being misinformed so often. One of the key reasons has to do with the appeal of the “Fairness Doctrine.” This policy was put in place in the US by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949. It required broadcasters to…

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