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Taiji/Bagua/Xingyi/Shaolin/Qigong instructor. US Navy Chief - Hooyah Nuke Power, it's green energy! Pagan, Science!, SciFi/Fantasy nerd, Gamer (video and table), comics fan, LGBTQIA+ ally. He/Him, pretty fly for a white guy. We're all mad here and it's ok.
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*wave* I hope you're doing well friend. I'm glad I found you on here.
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Here's the article:
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/califor...
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Messed that up in the post; Bluesky doesn't allow post editing. Intended was to say that their programming would have been affected if it were on a broadcast channel. In my ominous, the doctrine should have been expanded to cable.
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You came into this thread and made the assertion that I'm wrong. It's on you to back it up. Not gonna bother? Sounds like a bad faith argument. Just trying to create controversy for the hell of it? Go back under your bridge, troll.
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OK. Educate me.
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It did regulate news in that it required differing viewpoints to be discussed. You're right about the cable news part; I meant to say "If it applied to them"; screwed it up on edit.
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I agree. The thread is going over all media, as in "where can I get fair unbiased news?" Even the newspapers are controlled at this point.
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Those subscriptions to the AP news service (a nonprofit organization) go back over a century. Supposedly this is cost cutting to hire more journalists in house. In house sounds a bit like asserting more control of the narrative. I hope I'm wrong. 🧵 5/5 fin
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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But what about the local papers? Many aren't really local anymore - Gannett Media and McClatchy Corp are the biggest owners. Gannett owns USA Today. Both ended their agreement to publish AP stories as of March this year. 🧵 4/5
apnews.com/article/gann...
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This goes beyond cable news into local stations though, thanks to Sinclair Media Group. They own a vast majority of local broadcast stations, and they've used that influence to control narrative in a biased way. 🧵 3/5
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 by the FCC did damage we're still feeling today. It's what allows for such a skew in reporting, from either end. Fox News and MSNBC in its current form wouldn't survive if it were still a thing.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes...
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The closest I can think of is old school nobility sponsorships, which today I think is laureate work.
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Is it work? Yes. Is it less convenient? Yes. Is it cheaper? YES. There's no way you spend more money making a pizza than buying the same amount of pizza. Economy of scale and meal prepping are things too. If it's all ready to go and just needs a reheat, that's all of five minutes.
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Have your roast, use the bones for stock, make soup from some of it, use some of the stock to make sauces for the next thing, on and on. Make a big pot of rice, have some for that meal. Next meal reheat, or make fried rice.
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@medickimw.bsky.social Seen this yet?
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Oh, cool!
Ok: favorite map projection and why?