The FTC should have regulated Fox News decades ago. I work in marketing, and you cannot call your milk ‘homogenized’ if it’s raw. Fox News is false advertising, full stop. At the very least, Congress should require opinion shows to be labelled as such so people know they’re not getting facts.
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I also think it's the wrong end of the chain.
We gotta follow the money to it's source. And with this I mean Russian influence.
There were stupid and racist people before. They were just never so weaponized.
DCMA: Bad.
S230: Good, vital, and essential.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!
The DMCA passed in 1997.
We, the people, are the government. We make the laws, we can change the laws.
‘The government can’t regulate…’ Bullshit. We can regulate what we pass laws to regulate. Ask any woman’s uterus.
Which it is. No lies.
https://www.foxnews.com/terms-of-use
"Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment. By visiting the Company Sites..."
Break up the media conglomerates.
Pass an amendment to secure the Fourth Estate as not-for-profit and bound by a code of ethics.
We may be able to debunk Fox, AON & the rest- but much of the lies, fear-baiting & subtle bigotry came from the pulpits.
How do we debunk that?
-must be operated not-for-profit
-requires a license to operate, overseen by a Bar-type journalistic body that can pull licenses for ethics violations
let's not forget that it is NOT the 'left' that has hyped a 2nd revolution-
those are the words of Kevin Roberts, CEO Heritage Foundation
we are ALREADY living in a dictatorship- a soft overthrow of our Constitution.
Proof
All of 9 seconds to declare war on our Constitution, our rule of law, destruction of our civil rights ..
As GUARANTEED BY THE US CONSTITUTION!!
But Dem leadershiT was acting like it’s 1990s posturing & partisan bluster.
Idiots
That Sinclair Media has shown extensive bias & control of its news / reporting style.
There are other examples - yellow journalism is nothing new.
Your daddy reference is a bit odd though.. this is Bluesky not X
1) limiting control (ownership rules) of mass media so that the powerful don’t abuse the press for their own ends as they are now.
The charge of the Fourth Estate is to speak truth to power. The powerful cannot and will not speak truth to power.
What they can’t do is knowingly disseminate lies and act as an arm of one specific party.
If suddenly the posts exhibit ‘you’ with unqualified- or qualified radical opinions?
They're already trying that now, but will inevitably lose. You actually want to give them that power under the law?
For someone so arrogant, I don't think you've thought this through.
Of course, this relies on Congress writing and passing an amendment that’s not written by media corporations, so don’t worry, it will never happen.
I’m just saying what needs to happen.
If I'm out on the street & record a crime am I not able to share it without a "media license"?
I’m putting ideas out there for discussion….
Congress itself can't even pass mundane laws these days, do you actually think you're going to be able to pass an amendment?
Voters may not need regulations of words if they thought about it.
Blame the Voters
Agreed it is a social good to have limits on editorializing. Journalism school teaches reporting, analysis, editorial, & commentary as separate things.
The US has a commission to define words like "honey" & "news."
Blame the Voters
I’m sure it doesn’t.
I apologize - but I do not see any reference to veracity.
Robert Frost
(*If that's true, why don't we see a liberal equivalent to Fox News? Maybe because it's only some people who want their beliefs backed up)
2A evolved to incorporate more than black powder firearms.
FD should have / could have followed the same course to include ANY & ALL forms of media.
It's not a matter of format- it was the real concerns on bipartisan level to have folk informed of opposing views.
we don't have that now.
Because the First Amendment does not mention the delivery system.
(Unlike the Second Amendment - which mentions “arms” not bullets.)
Or do you think FOX broadcast and Fox News are the same thing?
Had cable not been invented, I doubt there would only be ABC, CBS, and NBC.
In fact, most local Fox affiliate news departments often rely on CNN for video and reporting on national and international news. Which I find amusing.
They do it because FNC does very little to no original reporting.
https://bsky.app/profile/bwkemper.bsky.social/post/3lihlh5xsg22x
B) We’re not defending “corporate …
Plus, if Trump had that power now (which he thinks he does but the courts are stopping him) we’d be in even bigger trouble.
That prohibition went back even to the ratification of 1A when newspapers were just as partisan and full of …
A) they sanctified the 1A so that the press could speak truth to power. If the powerful control the mass media and use it to maintain power and begin taking away rights and burning the Constitution, that’s tyranny. B) they sanctified the 2A.
Because as history as shown us, fascist gov’t have used ….
The stories on Gox News don't fall in this same category. They are not in furtherance of some transaction for a product or service.
-make all press not-for-profit
-enable journalists to self-regulate through a professional body, like the Bar
None of this stifles freedom of speech.