Reagan-Era

Reagan FCC Abolishes Fairness Doctrine in 4-0 Vote, Eliminating Balanced Coverage Requirements for Broadcasters

1987-08-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick’s Commission votes 4-0 to abolish the Fairness Doctrine in the Syracuse Peace Council decision, eliminating the 38-year requirement that broadcast licensees using publicly-owned airwaves must provide balanced coverage of controversial issues and present opposing …

Dennis R. Patrick Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ronald Reagan Mark S. Fowler Mimi Weyforth Dawson +3 more media-regulation fairness-doctrine deregulation fcc regulatory-capture +3 more

First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service

1984-01-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opens the first adult detention facility to be fully managed and run by a private corporation in the United States in over a century. After winning “the first contract ever to design, build, finance and operate a secure correctional facility” from …

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A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization

1983-04-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On April 26, 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,” a report that fundamentally reshaped American education discourse and laid the ideological groundwork for decades of privatization efforts. The …

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Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry

1983-01-28 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Thomas W. Beasley (chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party), Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto found Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in Nashville, Tennessee, creating the first modern for-profit prison company. After a 15-minute presentation on Valentine’s Day 1983, Massey Burch …

Thomas W. Beasley Robert Crants T. Don Hutto Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) Massey Burch Investment Group +1 more private-prison prison-industrial-complex mass-incarceration corporate-lobbying institutional-capture +1 more

Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture

1981-01-28 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President Reagan appoints James Watt, former president of Mountain States Legal Foundation (funded by Coors and oil companies), as Interior Secretary. Watt immediately opens federal lands to mining and drilling, reverses environmental protections, and staffs the department with industry executives. …

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