ronald wilson reagan, of california. a sports announcer, a film actor is our winner for the presidency. - ronald reagan is our first modern celebrity president. - ask 'em to go in there with all they've got. - he was a movie star. he had been in showbusiness all his life. - win just one for the gipper. - in 1987, during the reagan years, the fcc, the federal communications commission, repealed the fairness doctrine. - the fairness doctrine made sure that broadcasters reported multiple different points of view on controversial topics. - if you had, you know, an hour of pro-democrat stuff, you had to have an a hour of pro-republican. - let's recap very quickly what has happened here. - equal time, the fairness doctrine for broadcasting. - in the 1980s, the fcc began to feel pressure from broadcasters who felt the fairness doctrine was infringing on their first amendment rights.