Just a reminder that the "Fox News Channel" is just a name— it does not describe an actual news channel. The FNC's own description of its services is here, from its terms of use:
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FCC doesn’t control cable content either. It’s private. People pay for the privilege. That’s how cable was allowed to have swear words back in the day and regular TV didn’t.
Understood in a normal world and historically yet look at the overreach happening now with Carr. MAGA willing to do whatever to institute their autocracy. Seeing FOX and other channels promoting misinformation should have kicked off alarm bells and some type of action earlier. It’s a hypothetical
obviously and we’re here but if we can crawl out I’d want to see a push for faux news outlets to have the knowing (key) spread of true misinformation stifled by some mechanism. 🤷♂️🙏
Imagine if Trump started pulling Kimmel or the Daily Show off of cable networks..
it’s not far fetched but if the Dems do it to Fox that’s the door that they open and it’s kind of how we got Citizens United. One side opened the dark money door and it went tit for tat until it was institutionalized.
Unfortunately it’s not going to happen. There are plenty of products out there that are bad for you that gov allows to be sold. If the gov starts policing content of “entertainment” which is what Fox is technically by their own admission, it creates a state censorship situation that long term is bad
Mortgage broker here. I can confirm their job title is entertainment host, consultant etc. Some even work for the “other side” at the same dog gone time. It’s all a rig and worked. Dems need a solely owned cable channel with simple gifs & memes to spread the truth with links for questions
I think they should be banned from having the word 'News' anywhere in the name of their channel or any of their programming. It's fraudulent and misrepresents their content.
This is the argument they used in court many years ago when they were sued for promoting false info. They said they weren’t a news outlet, rather entertainment. This isn’t new.
In 2023, Abraham Josephine Riesman's book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America argued that strategies of the Republican party closest to Donald Trump can be explained by kayfabe.
Very biased news on Fox News, yes. If anyone ever tries to argue that other networks’ nightly news programs are biased too, they’re probably right, but those shows are considered “specialty programming” as if they need a disclaimer that says “these views don’t necessarily reflect ours”
Rupert Murdoch reluctantly admitted FOX misrepresented accusations of 2020 election tampering. It doesn’t register with Trump supporters who continue to insist FOX is the only news source.
Wish there had been someway to shut down news media sources that traffic misinformation.
It is entertainment. For money. They keep their low information viewers entertained.
You notice the words “fair and balanced” have disappeared from their vocabulary. 😆
There is no legal distinction between news and entertainment when it comes to the FCC, which BTW doesn't regulate cable channel content anyway. Anybody can call themselves news and there's isn't jack sh*t the government can do about it.
Similar situation with GB ‘News’ in the UK. Right wingers playground. Opinions more prevalent than facts and politicians with their own programmes, breaches of impartiality etc.
Ah, finally, a news channel that's 'fair and balanced'... in its description of itself! Guess that's what they mean by 'alternative facts' – an alternative to actual news. And I thought AI was supposed to make us smarter, not dumber... or should I say, 'FNC-ier'?
It never was a real “news” station. I remember years ago when it was all Himbos and Bimbos reading fluff stories no one cared about. It was a place for people to tune in and watch “the beautiful people” instead of depressing “news”. Now it’s just Rupert’s “Chamber of Lies”.
I would support legislation that orders media content companies to replace “News” with “Political Commentary” if they focus on partisan politics. Both Fox and MSNBC would be subject!
Fox News has been officially considered entertainment since its inception yet people assume that naming it Fox News makes it news. It’s mind boggling. I’m pretty sure that if I added Princess before my first name no one would assume I’m royalty.
So Mainstream Media is not a real representation of NEWS happening locally, statewide, national & international. We see everyday that it's a vehicle for wannabe Pulitzer prize winner. Can we really believe that writing books after the fact is more honest than reporting it real time? NO INTEGRITY.
Fox Entertainment boils the minds of existing conspiracy theorists and makes them worse. News is facts that need to be analyzed and researched by the viewer. That is not what fox allows.
Exactly.
They put "news" in thename. But it's registered as an entertainment channel. It's a private cable channel and can say anything it wants, all the lies it wants.....
Gotta read the fine print, although Sean Hannity has said this out loud to their viewers. MAGA doesn't get it. You could tell them Big Bird is green and they'd believe it.
They beat that one, actually, by claiming they are an entertainment org and not news, per se. Sorry for the BI link but it was the first one and I'm lazy lol
The deep, certain, and *wrong* belief that the FCC issues "news licenses" or "entertainment licenses" (and does so for cable, yet!) has *got* to be a psyop. I refuse to accept so many people are all so wrong in the same way on their own.
They claim they want to fight misinformation...and then start spouting nonsense the FCC issuing licenses that don't actually exist, and insist we need to reinstate a FCC policy that they learned about from inaccurate memes.
That being said, you have more faith in people than I do.
Just a reminder that "Dungeons & Dragons" is just a name — it does not describe an actual dungeon or dragon. WotC’s own description of its product identity is here, from its SRD:
Oh they and people like them do it in the UK too. The start of the deterioration of our social and political life can be dated to Murdoch's purchase of national newspapers.
Since its inception, Fox News has inflicted incalculable damage to America and the world. It played a major role in drumming up public support for the Iraq War in 2003, with its prime time personalities like O’Reilly imploring its audience to blindly trust that the Bush Admin had solid intel on WMD.
This is identical to the situation with GB News in the UK.
Many complaints but the regulatory body OFCOM reminds us it is registered as an entertainment channel. News rules dont apply.
FOX is a cable entertainment channel. Imagine the Dems had staffed their administration with the cast of Sesame St.
Fox “News” isn’t News by their own admission— it’s fascist propaganda for the entertainment of racists, bigots and resentful haters of all stripes. 🤷🏻♂️🚩🚩🚩
TRUMP:
#FCC's authority over broadcast stations, cable systems, and satellite providers is so WEAK, I exploit this 24/7 and use to bamboozle low informed Americans.
The #FCC relies on “content creators” (aka, my distortion experts) and the “public” to police distorted content. 1/3
TRUMP:
“We purchased Brendan Carr! He did our bidding in the last election, and I won!
The fact that the #FCC is useless and has EXTREMELY limited jurisdiction over online platforms and social media , I launched “Truth Social” to spread MY LIES! YOU IDIOTS JUST LET ME DO IT!”
TRUMP:
“I spread tons of disinformation on Truth Social, X, and Papers Of Record owned by my Billionaires BFF’S like Jeffy B!
America is SO DUMB NOW that CHINA is out classing us.
Notice I’ve made no CUTS to the #FCC! Brendan Carr was promoted and paid to help me. He wears my head on his lapel! 3/3
I turn on Fox Fake News once a day and I set a timer to see how long it takes for them to point blame at Biden. So far, the average time is 18.3 seconds. They made it a full 1:55 today. Sick.
The anchors on Faux News (Hannity, Watters, et al) are entertainers not journalists. Their primary assignment is to keep the rage machine cranked up to keep the dupes who watch them engaged and enraged. Trump State TV.
They need a chyron crawl at the bottom that says "entertainment", not real news
Oh my goodness!! Yes, I was looking at the description of Fox News and all it said was that it is entertainment. Nothing, nothing about it being an actual news channel. It’s pure bs.
Even if the FD could be applied to FNC, it wouldn't change anything. The Fox News Channel meets it's requirements right now, as they are, with no changes to their programming. And Rush Limbaugh was on the air during the era of the FD, and met it's requirements as well.
He was certainly a cultural phenomenon. I was in radio back then, and marveled at what he tapped into. Bars and restaurants had "Rush Rooms" where people would gather to listen to his show.
After hearing pundits talk about how so many things can be blamed on far right media, I am not surprised. I had never heard of that before. It was something I ignored as long as I could!
Reagan gave Murdoch citizenship after one year in the US. When Murdoch started Fox News on cable, the Reagan Administration waived cable tv from the Fairness Doctrine.m
Ok but what do other self descriptions say?
And is there any kind of similar description required in the FCC license? What do those sections say about fox and other news outlets? What you posted sounds like a self own. But we have nothing to compare it to.
Cable channels to not use public airwaves, so they **can't** be included under the FCC umbrella. Cable is private content and not subject to FCC regulations
Fox is even more explicit in its legal filings, saying “no reasonable person” would believe what they say is factually accurate (as a way to deflect liability for defamation etc)
The opposition will not fully succeed until they have found a way to counter the information environment, starting with Fox. MAGA propaganda drives every other issue and should be considered a national security priority. Right now, they control their viewers and the mainstream news cycle.
"Any reasonable viewer." The problem with that is that most Fox viewers I know (thankfully not many) and the vast majority of them I've come across online are not reasonable people. They take almost every word Fox talking heads say as gospel. They tune in to Carlson and others with zero skepticism.
He engages in black comedy. It is funny because it is not funny. Reasonable People would not accept what he says as assertions of fact. Problem is that Reasonable People don't watch Tucker Carlson.
The problem is that many viewers to this day believe it is all true. We think that no one can believe it, but that is where even the judge’s opinion is flawed. She has learned to think critically, to question. You cannot use the same lens because the people watching do not have the same skills
I don’t think it matters for his viewers what it’s called as long as Fox provides information that reconfirms their bias . Not only the US deals with disinformation most of the world does and that’s why we are where we are now .
Good. Not good that they lie, good that the government isn’t deciding what is true and can be said vs not true and can’t be said. That would be very bad.
It's always fascinating to me how, confronted with actual, objective, evil and stupidity, people *still* feel compelled to make up *more*. Why lie when the truth serves?
Like people passing around *fake* stupid things Trump or Leavitt have said, as if there's some shortage of real ones.
In a better world, a few million more people would see an incredible defamation settlement and turn the channel. But, the whole tribe works like an abusive relationship. Maybe Fox will take the kids fishing some weekend in June.
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.
Congress at the moment is not a real organization, just a bunch of people who fear and/or worship Trump, and will do whatever he (or his influencers) want. So that's not happening.
we lost everything when the first wave of SV "soothsayers" convinced and payed off the dem. gov to create section 230 and the DCMA of 1996. The second wave was the gop driven CU ,and now the final thirdwave for our endgame of america as we knew it are the Trump AI laws coming now.
Given the conditions that inspired it, I wouldn't call it stupidity. It reminds me a bit of Smith v California, or tje Wire Service defense. Bit, to each, his own I guess.
And two years ago, there was no constitutional basis to regulate a woman’s uterus. C’mon, stop trotting out this lame defense. It’s pure corporate boot licking.
You didn’t read or you did not and Dobbs. It said nothing like that. It said that the Constitutional basis of Roe was not valid. Your conclusion is not surprising given that you don’t know that we have a representative democracy and not a pure democracy. You are way out of your lane
The people are not the government. The government is people elected by us and people appointed or hired by them. We do not make laws. The people we elected make laws. The people we elected can change laws.
There is no difference. If a million people show up at the offices of congressional representatives with pitchforks demanding new laws to fix a problem, the problem is going to get fixed or that representative is going to be out on their can the next election. We need the will and the passion.
Our building admin at work has Fox playing in the lobby all day. I'm always amazed at the chyrons. The event might be Biden forgives student loans; their chyron will say "Biden slammed for forgiving student loans", every time. The "news" is their anchors' response to the actual news
I once got FNC turned off of a public-space TV by appealing to the folks behind the counter and explaining that having it on was “bad for my blood pressure”.
Golly, if only the news business could have predicted that Roger Ailes was putting together a propaganda organ rather than a legit news shop. Maybe they could have warned us, instead of welcoming Fox News to their brotherhood
nah, video games didn't exist until he was in his 20s. he didnt directly say that quote. he simply shared it a few years ago on twitter since he liked it and a meme page claimed he was the one who originally said it
Easiest filter to determine validity of any op ed piece - Any presenter of said opinion publicly making fun on the air of others, then laughing about it, is a purveyor of auditory snake oil. Change the channel! That goes for CNN as well as FOX.
Consider that the indoctrination of the magat crowd exists on dozens if not hundreds of platforms- perhaps the 'worst' is the white evangelical churches.
We may be able to debunk Fox, AON & the rest- but much of the lies, fear-baiting & subtle bigotry came from the pulpits.
Jesus H. Christ. Licensed free speech. Block me now for the love of a deity you don’t believe in who has a license to preach the true gospel under the free exercise clause.
And, as has already been pointed out, you favor giving the government, which by default means the worst of Republicans including Trump, a legal tool to determine what is and isn't legitimate journalism. What could go wrong?
Yellow journalism is nothing new. But the deregulated ownership rights are new. Chomsky was warning against consolidation of media ownership in the ‘90s, when 15 corporations owned the U.S. media. Now it’s 6 that own 90%.
Yep. Yellow journalism is a problem. And centralization of news media is a concern. So what? You think giving media giants a free pass is the solution? Please daddy, tread on me harder.
2) part of that is ensuring that those entrusted with delivering timely and accurate information to the public are protected from those who would abuse it, 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.
Oh, I think you’ll grasp it soon enough once the internet is properly licensed and regulated to stop people like you from offering your unqualified radical opinions. And we aren’t even discussing your Google proclivities for dirty pictures without appropriate age verification!
What do you mean, "again?" You literally said it should be in the hands of the FTC, an executive branch agency that the President has absolute control over per SCOTUS.
And the bar is a professional organization in each state, which simply has rules for people practicing they're profession. Each state has different rules. You think that's tenable for the whole country?
If I'm out on the street & record a crime am I not able to share it without a "media license"?
Who is going to be in charge of this professional body? Who will work there. How will it have any force in law under the 1st amendment? Are we just doing away with that?
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 don’t have to be smart if they aren’t brainwashed with propaganda. Other countries seem to avoid these problems. I live in Australia and voters are pretty well educated on the issues because we still have strong public media and don’t allow Fox News here.
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."
The whole thing is a fraud - baseless opinion and conspiracy theories passed off as "news". Even the name is a misrepresentation. As long as they operate as they do, half the country will be stuck in a double-think bubble.
Fox had to pay almost $800M for lying about voting machines, yet its vast audience still tunes in to its adjudicated fake news because they are a bunch of weenies who cannot handle the truth.
I agree. If you live in fear of everything, you not only gravitate towards people who spoon-feed you, but also spoon-feed you lies that give you an enemy to aim your repressed anger.
Yes, we don’t allow Fox News to operate in Australia, although we do get our share of bad-faith political spin via Murdoch’s other platforms, like Sky News and the Daily Telegraph. Fortunately, we still have strong public media.
The founding fathers did not anticipate mass media and ownership rules that consolidated the power of propaganda in the hands of several billionaires and mega-millionaires, or they would have written another amendment, which is what we need to do.
It’s ingenious marketing, actually. Murdoch saw an underserved market of anti-government, conspiracy theorist racists and served up the angertainment they wanted to see. However, it’s been a disaster for democracy.
in a similar fashion to firearms- all to become more effective & capable of reaching the intended targets that may have previously been too far away ..
It's not a matter of format- it was the real concerns on bipartisan level to have folk informed of opposing views.
I think Fox News would broadcast over the air, with affiliates, like other networks currently do. They could have used the existing Fox broadcast network, or started a new one.
Had cable not been invented, I doubt there would only be ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Under current law maybe. If we can change the laws that regulate women’s uteruses, we can sure as fuck change the laws that regulate mass media. I don’t get the whole, ‘let’s defend the corporate juggernaut’ crowd. Honestly.
A) No, because the First Amendment would block such regulation. Cases like Miami Herald and last year’s Moody decision make that clear. The only reason SCOTUS permitted limited regulation of “broadcasting” was due to the “unique” nature of that medium.
Here’s the deal the Founding Fathers made:
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.
Homogenization is different from Pasturization. I suppose you can shake up raw milk so the cream spreads evenly and still call it raw, but the Listeria is still there. Misleading, even if technically true. Corporate free speech is dangerous.
Reagan tore all those guardrails down. It wasn’t an accident, it was part of the long term strategy to roll back the rules so the corporations and 1%ers could be unconstrained
As I keep saying to Americans who seem intent on licking the boot, we are the government. We make the laws. We can establish new laws that regulate business if the ones there aren’t working. Let’s stop pretending the government is something other than us. Otherwise we will have to start over.
I mean, Amendment One could be weakened to give the govt more authority over speech. But I think that could have undesirable effects. As it is now, we've already seen govt attempt to take action against political messages it doesn't like.
Please stop repeating this claim. It doesn’t help. If I report things with my opinion, it’s still news. Still 1st amendment. And it doesn’t matter if I say I’m for entertainment purposes only.
Fox's lawyers say they aren't journalists, just entertainers. No, the GOP base isn't smart enough to know the difference b/w a news show and an opinion show because of the GOP psyops on the base for nearly 50 years.
Just entertainment.
“Fake News Channel”, oozed forth from the Reagan era deregulation and elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, established after WW2 in 1949.
yes.. sadly though we had a chance at a new mediium only a decade after 1984 was "1984 with reagan" but we failed at allowed 1996s internet laws to bamboozle the Dem Gov as well.
FAUX has been blatantly LYING to the public for decades, doing irreparable harm without any consequences. Even a $787 Million fine didn't slow their destructive behavior. ALL FOR PROFITS AND GREED.
Everyone should use YouTube TV, customize their menu, and uncheck every News channel so that you don't have to subject yourself to opinions slanted as news.
Its unfortunate that there are many "news" deserts where Fox is the only channel on TV and millions watch and believe opinions as news. More unfortunate, they vote, always against their own interests.
It also means that because they aren't journalists they don't have any 1A protections. It's the GOP propaganda network. It's part of the nearly half-century of GOP psyops on the base to get us exactly here.
They have freedom of speech (that has limits too) but not journalistic protection because they aren't journalists. According to their own lawyers in court.
You just said "any" protections, which was obviously untrue. An overtly, explicitly, unashamedly nothing-but-propaganda network would still have protection from the government compelling it to say or not say something, publish or not publish something.
It represents the single most critical investment the right has made for their cause in the last 30 years. The left should pursue a similar infrastructure for message dissemination immediately.
Fox News has worked to build a base of support, shape opinion, develop messenging "talent", and systematically drag mainstream right wing opinion towards its desired target... and in a battle of ideology you want to be the quieter voice?
I'm not saying to be the quieter voice. We should be loud. We just don't need a propaganda network. Conservatives are driven by fear because they tend to have larger amygdalas. Liberals tend to have a larger anterior cingulate cortex which is the activity center for empathy. We're not the same.
You're too focused on the term "propaganda." No one is asking for a left wing "Fox News" in the sense that it manufacturers a narrative about a caravan of pension slashers every October, but you need a messenging infrastructure that drives narratives, shapes opinion, and spreads the ideology.
I've been referring to that media property as the Fox Cinematic Universe. (The Murdoch Cinematic Universe, or MCU, might get me on the wrong side of Disney lawyers, who I hear are scary, except when facing the government.)
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Fox news is them making up something, filling their opinions about it. Usually hate towards the left. Defending Trump.
it’s not far fetched but if the Dems do it to Fox that’s the door that they open and it’s kind of how we got Citizens United. One side opened the dark money door and it went tit for tat until it was institutionalized.
#endthegop
“Fox Entertainment Media”
That way, you can hear the promo "Housewives of Congress, Tuesdays at eight, on Foxnews Channel"
Wish there had been someway to shut down news media sources that traffic misinformation.
-Fox “News” Channel
-Faux News Channel
-Fox “News” & Propaganda Network
-The Real Fake News Channel
It is entertainment. For money. They keep their low information viewers entertained.
You notice the words “fair and balanced” have disappeared from their vocabulary. 😆
Fox is the maga republicans’ and trump regime’s propaganda talking faces. Brainwashing the weak minded and those seeking sensationalism.
*in a normal world. Under Trump, those magazines probably do have WH access
So now we can say it’s the COMEDY 24/7 channel!
Or even the EXCRETIA channel! In which case
Good!
I might add for the braindead
Rupert Murdoch and his family are responsible for the alternate reality that 50 million Americans believe. This was a calculated take-down by Murdoch.
They put "news" in thename. But it's registered as an entertainment channel. It's a private cable channel and can say anything it wants, all the lies it wants.....
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9?op=1
That being said, you have more faith in people than I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rge17TciHfU
Because fear sells.
Family: YESITIS!
Me: Just like the National Inquirer, right?
you have to be pretty sick find that entertaining
- His junk made them look legitimate. 👁️
'entertainment' explains it all
- and why they are laughing at their audience - and whoever - the whole time #foxnews
Same for Newsmax and OANN. Those two fly under the radar and shouldn’t
#iraqwar
Many complaints but the regulatory body OFCOM reminds us it is registered as an entertainment channel. News rules dont apply.
FOX is a cable entertainment channel. Imagine the Dems had staffed their administration with the cast of Sesame St.
So Russophile that he is, Trump named his propaganda machine “Truth Social”. Правда социальная in russian..
both are registered as entertainment corporations
the only actual news programs on nightly teevee at all are the abc cbs & nbc national news at 6:30pm and 11:00pm
you’ll notice your local fox affiliate has no news programs on at these times because none are licensed to do so
they are under no more obligation to provide any accurate information about anything than the cartoon network
that’s one of slick willie’s trojan horses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
#FCC's authority over broadcast stations, cable systems, and satellite providers is so WEAK, I exploit this 24/7 and use to bamboozle low informed Americans.
The #FCC relies on “content creators” (aka, my distortion experts) and the “public” to police distorted content. 1/3
“We purchased Brendan Carr! He did our bidding in the last election, and I won!
The fact that the #FCC is useless and has EXTREMELY limited jurisdiction over online platforms and social media , I launched “Truth Social” to spread MY LIES! YOU IDIOTS JUST LET ME DO IT!”
2/3
“I spread tons of disinformation on Truth Social, X, and Papers Of Record owned by my Billionaires BFF’S like Jeffy B!
America is SO DUMB NOW that CHINA is out classing us.
Notice I’ve made no CUTS to the #FCC! Brendan Carr was promoted and paid to help me. He wears my head on his lapel! 3/3
#FoxNews
We don’t get to this point without Fox abusing the trust of their audience cosplaying journalism.
I’m here to build a new live tv streaming service that doesn’t permit journalism impersonation.
Let’s build
Once fundamental language is corrupted it seems wiser to determine the boundaries of a new one than fight the corrupt & manipulators forever, no?
They need a chyron crawl at the bottom that says "entertainment", not real news
What other TV company could pay a $715 billion dollar settlement for lying to viewers. And then go right on lying to their viewers.
Make cable television comply with the Fairness Doctrine!
Stop the lying to the people!
The monster has been lying to us a long time.
And is there any kind of similar description required in the FCC license? What do those sections say about fox and other news outlets? What you posted sounds like a self own. But we have nothing to compare it to.
nobody with a functioning brain should bother watching it.
Campaign to Take Down Fox
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Or maybe it was based on Roger Ailes' blond paradigm of female perfection. From a bottle or not.
Related, pre-Dominion ruling, don’t forget Fox won lawsuits against them with the argument that no one is supposed to believe their bs
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9?op=1
But I don’t know, man. Smoking is a choice. Fox is a cult.
and the fools who fall for it ultimately kind of WANT to be fooled by it
https://youtu.be/eUcK9jCfGjE?si=BDKzJohedyuCa6Pp
Don't Ever Read The
Fine Print.
The Rest of U.S. Know
#FoxIsLiterallyFakeNews
FNC is trash but you don’t need to make this kind of shit up.
Like people passing around *fake* stupid things Trump or Leavitt have said, as if there's some shortage of real ones.
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.
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.
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"?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://youtu.be/07JQr5W3970?si=UdPK9rSavCHNj8NS
The FCC licenses and regulates “broadcast stations” that are involved in “broadcasting.”
The statutey definitions of such terms does not include cable channels.
https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/communications-act-1934.pdf
https://youtu.be/tmaKl0Zm2c4?si=MzrEMbGZZHCYABOQ
Or do you think Disney had a solid claim here? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7r9djxj0do.amp
“Fake News Channel”, oozed forth from the Reagan era deregulation and elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, established after WW2 in 1949.
lol.
Why are you pretending to be educated where you aren’t?
Sad.
Does the 1st Amendment protect Treason?
Easy life.
FOX broadcast travels over the same airwaves as the other broadcast channels and if you can get FOX you can get all the other broadcast channels.
If you get Fox News, you have cable and get broadcast and cable channels.
I mean. It is, but...
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Am I correct on that?
When the law doesn’t work, applied the facts.
When neither of those work, bang on the table loudly.
Quote by Hillary Clinton
https://youtu.be/tmaKl0Zm2c4?si=MzrEMbGZZHCYABOQ
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/16/facebook-posts/post-fox-news-changing-entertainment-spun-old-sati/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes%3famp
Look at where that has gotten the left.