FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement.
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The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy
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Mainstream Media and even Fox are criticizing Trumps tariffs and the downfall of the economy. Few however have seen how both the economy and democracy are being sabotaged because Trump wants to be a Putin. Americans be aware, fight back, Trump won't leave
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If you want a laugh, go to r/conservative and take a read. They banned anyone without flair that indicates they were conservative from posting. And the few times conservatives made posts about tariffs being bad, their posts were removed by moderators. There are posts there that shows 30+ comments that were all deleted or hidden because they criticized Trump for something.
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Who could have predicted that the party that would simply not quit whining about freeze peach would have done this as soon as they could
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think of every rarely enforced law the Dems could have gotten off the books. Now think about a GOP that is more about revenge than anything else.
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According to Mango Mussolini, Faux Noise is extremely far left liberal. So they will eventually suffer the same fate after all the others are shut down. Faux Noise escaped losing a lawsuit by claiming to be an entertainment channel instead of a news channel. The moron judge not only bought their argument, he also allowed them to keep their fake “news” name. And now the SC shows that they are essentially demented the same way.
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Trust me, living in a pretty red area I don't need to go to reddit to see that kind of stupidity. The plethora of pick up trucks encrusted with "Make America Great Again" and "F*** Biden" bumper stickers speak for themselves.
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Truly. They are masters of contortion when it comes to inventing narratives from whole cloth and selectively applying the law when it suits their cause, and ignoring it when it does not.
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Ahem, they DON'T READ! So the book and library losses mean NOTHING to them!
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Only because he considered what would happen if the Democrats got control. Felon45 is making sure that cannot ever happen, so his insane policy is totally safe from any retaliatory reversal.
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The tinfoil hat-wearer in me wonders if this is all intentional, and will not be the last time they act on a "complaint". Perhaps the ulterior motive is for the FCC to be the target of so much litigation that the current administration decides that it serves no regulatory purpose and dissolves it via EO because everyone is suing it.
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The ultimate hypocrisy, after showing such concern for the Biden Administration's non-repression of free speech being such a major concern for Trump's sycophants.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, they're ready to strip anyone who disagrees with them of the right to free speech.
How long until the MAGAs realize they've been played, and their speech as well will be silenced once they figure out they've been lied to?
Now the shoe is on the other foot, they're ready to strip anyone who disagrees with them of the right to free speech.
How long until the MAGAs realize they've been played, and their speech as well will be silenced once they figure out they've been lied to?
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Treading for thee, but not for me.In Trump's GOP, you earn political capital by acting tyrannically. And of course his supporters are the same people who bought the "Don't tread on me" flags.
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I want everyone who cares about media bias to watch and share this video, it describes beyond any doubt the scope of the dominance of sinclair over your media ecosystem
View: https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE
Take note, this video is 7 years old.
View: https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE
Take note, this video is 7 years old.
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Your problem, and mine, is authoritarianism, not socialism or capitalism.
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Very dangerous road we're heading towards. Every little step makes it that much harder to avoid the move to Fascism. We ignore the little steps because they seem little but those little steps will establish a foundation that will be very hard to reverse. It's sad what has happened to the country.
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Carr doesn't have to worry about that, at least not yet. He's a True Believer, he's doing these things because he very much wants to. It does no good to tell him, please don't do this because it will break the First Amendment, since that is his actual goal.
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One thing I have noticed in Arkansas is that I have seen fewer Trump flags lately. I don't know if that's just because the election was over or what. During his first term, we had people who kept permanent Trump flags or signs on their property.
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You should visit a Glasgow Pub and ask what the locals think about the BBC. The answers will be... colourful.
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Sypher the 297th
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Fox and Sinclair have no integrity. Fox is far right propaganda commentary masquerading as News on almost all of its programs with actual viewers. Fox and Friends, Hannity, Jessie Waters, Jeanine Shapiro, and so much more. They used to have conservative anchors like Shep Smith and Wallace who reported actual news inbetween the infotainment. But the viewers hated it so now it's wall to wall nonsense.
Sinclair though. . . their game is mostly skewing local news to stir up outrage with granny and pops but then masquerading their editorials as news through "must run" segments. They're the local Newsmax meets Info Wars.
Networks like MSNBC run mostly news and some commentary in the evening. But even their commentary has a remarkably limited bias because Republicans, Christians, and corporations are just so horrible there isn't a need to lie about them.
It's a sad world we live in where some people would damn their kids to hell on Earth under theocorporate feudalism because of their ignorance and bigotry.
Sinclair though. . . their game is mostly skewing local news to stir up outrage with granny and pops but then masquerading their editorials as news through "must run" segments. They're the local Newsmax meets Info Wars.
Networks like MSNBC run mostly news and some commentary in the evening. But even their commentary has a remarkably limited bias because Republicans, Christians, and corporations are just so horrible there isn't a need to lie about them.
It's a sad world we live in where some people would damn their kids to hell on Earth under theocorporate feudalism because of their ignorance and bigotry.
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Indeed.
This is because fascism in the US has its roots in slavery. Outright chattel slavery, morphed into Jim Crow, morphed into prison labor, with starvation wages running a deep current through all of it.
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True, but it also reflects the Public’s disdain for the Trump message, which irritates them (Conservatives) to no end.
I listen to PBS NewsHour daily and they always have the Conservative viewpoint presented. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, was interviewed and he pathetically tried to defend the tariffs. The Public is tired of it. You can only spin disinformation and lies so far.
IMO, unless you tell the objective truth, you shouldn’t be allowed airtime.
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The FCC is incredibly important. It touches literally every American in a way that few other parts of the government do.
That's why it was so profoundly disappointing that Biden waited the better part of a year to nominate Sohn to it. He squandered what ended up being half his term at the FCC, an agency where real impactful rulemaking takes a very long time. Trump, you'll notice, did not make the same mistake.
Once again, Democrats fuck around and we all get to find out.
That's why it was so profoundly disappointing that Biden waited the better part of a year to nominate Sohn to it. He squandered what ended up being half his term at the FCC, an agency where real impactful rulemaking takes a very long time. Trump, you'll notice, did not make the same mistake.
Once again, Democrats fuck around and we all get to find out.
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Government-run Media, showing only what government wants you to see.
Absolutely nothing Russian, Chinese or North Korean about that, is there?
Absolutely nothing Russian, Chinese or North Korean about that, is there?
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We keep comparing Nazi's and Communists when speaking of atrocities, but it isn't the ideologies that should be compared, it's the leadership. When any form of government becomes an autorcrocy and the head of that government is evil, people die. That is the common thread.
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We seem to be in agreement.
I have no sympathy for the GOP. I am not trying to rebrand them to soften their image. I am just pointing out they are not really a conservative party, and have been trending away from conservatism for the past 25 years of so. Trump has taken them to the next level.
I suppose there has always been an ebb and flow to the GOP's fascist leanings. Look at Joe McCarthy and events like Japanese internment.
Let's call them what they are because labeling them them as "conservatives" doesn't really capture just how damaging they are. There is nothing conservative about what they are doing.
In the US currently there is an fascist party and there is a pro-democracy party. To brand them differently distorts the danger to the Republic.
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I understood the sarcasm in your comment and the viewpoint of your paraphrased quote.
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I haven't watched cable news in >>10 years, but I remember MSNBC back years ago with rage-baiting shows like "Hardball with Chris Matthews". It may not be pure lying propaganda like Fox News, but it's still a mockery of real news and utter crap. If we could eliminate all "cable news-ertainment talk shows" we would gain so much. They only exist to sell commercials, and nothing keeps people tuned in better than rage-bait crap.
While it apparently goes against some underlying principles of America, if we could strictly limit all news to be non-profit, and institute major campaign finance restrictions we would be 1000% better off.
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“Indeed the abuses of the freedom of the press here have been carried to a length never before known or borne by any civilized nation. ... as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth & falsehood.”
-Thomas Jefferson
-Thomas Jefferson
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