In a different time when different mindsets prevailed, the US government handled this about as well as you could hope

The Fairness Doctrine is irrelevant today because of the way news is published/broadcast, but was effective in my humble opinion

From Wikipedia: “ The fairness doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters.”

And without getting too political, the beginning of a lot of our media woes in terms of news correlates nicely with when the doctrine was revoked