Departing FCC chair rejects complaints about TV news coverage of Trump
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I read an interview in the NYT with the US ambassador to Hungary this morning. It's chilling seeing the similarities here and the Republicans seemingly taking the same play from Orban's screenplay and adapting it for American audiences.
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I'm too angry to make a witty quip
quick, someone else more poised please do something with this while I spontaneously combust
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On the one hand...I don't watch TV news (cable or OTA; it's all just corporate drivel), but on the other hand..fuck Trump and the GOP / MAGA Republicans. If Dems acted like this then FOX "News" would have been off the air years ago. Yes, FOX "News" is, technically, a cable network and not OTA, so they can get away with a lot more, but still, if this was on the other foot, the Dems would have gotten it shutdown.
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If not for double standards, Republicans would have none at all.
They still screech their delusional hallucination that Biden censored The Truth™ on social media, while carr and simpington push for censorship at a level at least an order of magnitude worse.
They still screech their delusional hallucination that Biden censored The Truth™ on social media, while carr and simpington push for censorship at a level at least an order of magnitude worse.
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Funny how the GOP hates to be regulated according to the law, but has no problem ignoring the constitution when it comes to what they do.
How anyone could vote for these fascists is beyond me.
How anyone could vote for these fascists is beyond me.
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Here comes the fascist state, controlling the media to give the messages they want. Enjoy your new experience, USA.
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Never thought I would need to build something like “The Voice Of America” INSIDE America…
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The irony that at the same time, trump's AG is claiming to end the weaponization of the doj.
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The Sheep Look Up
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The entire second Trump administration: right wing apparatchiks "seek to weaponize [INSERT GOVERNMENT FUNCTION, OFFICE, OR AGENCY HERE]."
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What's the penalty for broadcasting without a license?
Follow up, who's going to enforce it?
Second follow up, what if you just keep doing it anyway?
Just power through until there's a friendly administration again. It seemed to work for Trump's allies.
Follow up, who's going to enforce it?
Second follow up, what if you just keep doing it anyway?
Just power through until there's a friendly administration again. It seemed to work for Trump's allies.
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Clearly over the next four years American media is going to be untrustworthy. A year or two back my wife picked up a Guardian account, and I need to be paying more attention to that. I've also occasionally looked at Al Jazeera, but need to do more. Other good (with English edition) sources?
I don't quite see us needing to use VPNs to get such information, nor do I see a real need for TOR for the same purposes - yet.
I don't quite see us needing to use VPNs to get such information, nor do I see a real need for TOR for the same purposes - yet.
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Federal fines, impoundment of equipment, eventually jail time iirc.
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When the FCC is forced to take a position in favor of free speech, you know we're in trouble.
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My day starts with Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)--the cosmos remains currently apolitical, and I learn something every day
Then ARS---miss the more-tech, less-political, old days.....
Then for "outside look-in on us": the BBC , and Al Jazeera--with a grain of salt
Any suggestions for good far-east "outside look-in" ??
Then NPR, Iowa Public Radio, our small local paper, POTUS on XM radio (spouse's account)
I miss network news without the commentary that has led to this story
The cornerstone of a democracy is an educated public, capable of critical thinking and source/fact checking.
Then ARS---miss the more-tech, less-political, old days.....
Then for "outside look-in on us": the BBC , and Al Jazeera--with a grain of salt
Any suggestions for good far-east "outside look-in" ??
Then NPR, Iowa Public Radio, our small local paper, POTUS on XM radio (spouse's account)
I miss network news without the commentary that has led to this story
The cornerstone of a democracy is an educated public, capable of critical thinking and source/fact checking.
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The commentary on Ars is entirely opt-in.
What is your small local paper? Many such publications are produced by a national organization.
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The Sheep Look Up
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Gannett should be broken up, all the way down to the individual publication.
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When did "the left" try to use the FCC to censor anything? When did that happen?
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Ace wants to go full proto-authoritarian Victor Orban style (as mentioned by @squawkingVFR NY Times article.)
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Ironically, our locally published/printed paper is called the Daily Democrat--great for local news and happenings
You would never connect the name to the declared political party of most of the readership by reading the letters to the editor, though.....
But, as the paper's name is intended, the letters are 'democratically' printed, uncensored, mostly local comments. The readers 'opt in' to make comments, as GrayLshaped pointed out about ARS, and all views are presented. It is then up to the reader to take away what they will.....
I do not have a "party affiliation", but I am unaware that "the left" or "Dems" have been censoring my media exposure.
I can say that I have a list of books, that I read in school, that the Republican party in my state has banned.
(we bought all of them for our grandson)
There is a difference between 'free speech' and the 'only speech you listen to'.......
As I asked before, is there a good far-east news source? (and you think our press is censored)
You would never connect the name to the declared political party of most of the readership by reading the letters to the editor, though.....
But, as the paper's name is intended, the letters are 'democratically' printed, uncensored, mostly local comments. The readers 'opt in' to make comments, as GrayLshaped pointed out about ARS, and all views are presented. It is then up to the reader to take away what they will.....
I do not have a "party affiliation", but I am unaware that "the left" or "Dems" have been censoring my media exposure.
I can say that I have a list of books, that I read in school, that the Republican party in my state has banned.
(we bought all of them for our grandson)
There is a difference between 'free speech' and the 'only speech you listen to'.......
As I asked before, is there a good far-east news source? (and you think our press is censored)
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At this point it's near impossible to tell who is cribbing from whom. All the right wing authoritarians are clubbing it together and reading each other's homework. The Night of Long Knives can wait until the common enemy is death with.
It's damn depressing , though, that the fact that people would vote in Trump, who would like to "fix" democracy, is the best argument against democracy I can think of.
There used to be rules. And a chessboard. And something you could squint at and call "common decency" if you had the sense not to look at it too hard.
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I thought fact checking was censorship?
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
It is very difficult to keep guidelines straight if alternative facts are the basis for decisions.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
It is very difficult to keep guidelines straight if alternative facts are the basis for decisions.
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It’s worse than that. The GQP is full of educated and wealthy people. They aren’t ignorant. They knowingly welcome fascism and Gilead.
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It's not a binary, it's a sliding scale, and they will definitely be less trustworthy than they are now.
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