I took a journalism class in college from a fabulous professor who alway said, “News is what you need to know, not what you want to know.” We need the Fourth Estate to tell us the news & infotainment-for-ratings to die. Propaganda should have to air with a warning: for entertainment purposes only. 🤨
Not the current version. The MSM are dinosaurs and the internet was the extinction event-and they missed it. They're too caught up in clicks/ratings and the news cycle.
We desperately need the Fairness Doctrine reinstated, but applying it to social media is the HULK, sadly, it didn't exist yet when Reagan repealed it and started the dismantling of the New Deal that kept the Corps and Banks in check, much like the governments checks and balances.
But the result was most often we got the news, real news, and then a small segment segment of opinion commentary. None of this Fox News miniscule subtext entertainment industry. VS Cronkite, Chet and Brinkley types
I'd be happy to have local and national news outlets at least have to abide by it, and radios perhaps, public airwaves, to have one lesser agendized avenue of information resources for the publics and communitys needs
It did not apply to news - it applied to viewpoints, a.k.a. opinions.
Most broadcast stations have programming that meets the requirements of the Fairness Doctrine - namely weekday and Sunday morning news/talk/opinion shows.
Yep, but oversight then also went lax to allow the buyouts of all the city, towns newspapers, TV stations, cable etc, to Sinclair and Murdoch and that ilk, to greatly narrow the scope of reporting done, disiminated to sample. It's all an echo chamber now, much like our elected representatives do too
Heh, I've been in a swimming pool where it was raining on the shallow end, but not on the deep.. clouds are like that. Meteorology job in control towers for most of my life, and people just don't get what we mean by chance or percentages, watch or warnings, alerts, after all these decades 😶🌫️☺️🤔🌞🫠😉😶😆
No, they won't. The media is not known for acknowledging when they are wrong.
They should be blamed for so much that they did (or didn't) during the campaign.
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And content regulations on print, cable, and internet would violate the First Amendment.
And the Fairness Doctrine could not have constitutionally applied to cable, internet, or print so would have had no impact on Fox News anyway.
Most broadcast stations have programming that meets the requirements of the Fairness Doctrine - namely weekday and Sunday morning news/talk/opinion shows.
And again, had nothing to do with print, cable, or internet.
Then Citizens United came along…
They should be blamed for so much that they did (or didn't) during the campaign.