Insurrection 2021

[hutch]

There were regulations on news.. something like the fair doctrine

When it was eliminated around 89 is when rush Limbaugh took off


Here it is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

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I heard recently that Fox can 100% survive and do well with zero advertising
Every person who has cable is paying $5~ a month in their bundle to get fox included
so my understanding is people need to push hard on the cable providers to remove fox from all bundles and may it a pay for service
then only about 5% of people would pay $5 a month and their business would crater


Fairness doctrine doesn't really work with the internet
when you only got news from 3 different channels and 3-5 different local/national news sources...you could make it work
now people will tune out any 'fairness' and just go to a place that gives them the news they want to see with none of the fair crap

[hutch]

This seems stupid


I mean then Fox News viewers push hard to remove CNN?


Where do people come up with this shit?

The point is freedom of speech etc doesn’t cover everything.. you can’t yell fire in a movie theater but you can say the election was stolen and people need to fight and the dominion machines were rigged KNOWING it’s untrue? You can just spout none sense under the guise of news to get people frothing and that’s ok? Sorry I don’t see it..

[hutch]

No to mention the links between right wing news and Trump
 How is it freedom of speech to have Trump - when president-telling Fox what to say and Hannity telling Trump what to say? That kind of collusion at the expense of truth is not freedom of anything and doesn’t serve democracy

It’s practically Pravda


But actually closer to fascism...a link between business and government to rule

I mean reading paragraph 3...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

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I mean then Fox News viewers push hard to remove CNN?

CNN would close its doors immediately without advertisers, they don't get that much from cable fees (maybe .50 cents per user?!)
Fox gets a substantial amount from the cable companies as Murdoch and co pushed them for years to raise the fees...and not a single consumer understood or complained that they were basically giving Fox $60 a year to stay in business


Now the collision between Fox and the GOP is somewhat insane, that I feel should be looked into and laws created
FOX has been very deft about some of this...hannity/tucker have stated in court cases that they are not news, but entertainment

[hutch]

I call bullshit


Fox News Channel does not get ten times more than CNN


Maybe Fox channel plus Fox News plus Fox Business plus who knows what else

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Ok...my numbers were off
https://unfoxmycablebox.com/

 A typical household pays Fox News almost $2 per month
Fox News makes approximately $1.8 billion per year from hidden subscriber fees–twice as much as CNN and three times as much as MSNBC.

[hutch]

The whole it’s freedom of speech to justify Fox News is stupid


Imagine if al qaeda had a channel!? It would have been shut down stat

What we are facing in the US is a traitorous “political party” that does not believe in democracy working with media, using social media etc to advance an anti-American agenda

The sooner we get this the better..

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What we are facing in the US is a traitorous “political party” that does not believe in democracy working with media, using social media etc to advance an anti-American agenda

I agree with this take...I think we would need to remove the filibuster to get anything done
there are more than 75 million American who are AOK with the GOP and Fox...so there is that too

Oh and we are likely screwed in the house in 2022...so Biden and the Dems need to act quick and get shit on the books
I could care less if they scream "they are ramming this through"

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Oh and we are likely screwed in the house in 2022...so Biden and the Dems need to act quick and get shit on the books
I could care less if they scream "they are ramming this through"

I really hope this kind of stuff fractures the party, but really doesn't seem too at all and 2022 and 2024 they will be going full bore trump all the time

“About 75 percent of Republican primary voters said supporting Donald Trump is a requirement for office.” https://politico.com/news/2021/02/25/gop-2024-trump-471565

you read that right...a requirement to run in a primary for GOP

[Space Freely]

What we are facing in the US is a traitorous “political party” that does not believe in democracy working with media, using social media etc to advance an anti-American agenda

I agree with this take...I think we would need to remove the filibuster to get anything done
there are more than 75 million American who are AOK with the GOP and Fox...so there is that too

Oh and we are likely screwed in the house in 2022...so Biden and the Dems need to act quick and get shit on the books
I could care less if they scream "they are ramming this through"

How do you know there are more than 75 million? Only 74.2 million voted for Trump, and some of those may not have loved him.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

"they are ramming this through"

That's what she said.

[Space Freely]

So what time does Trump become President tomorrow?

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So what time does Trump become President tomorrow?

Q o'clock

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in related news
The House of Representatives just cancelled all business tomorrow bc of a credible threat .