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(52,413 posts)i'm shocked!
shocked, i tells ya!
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)It up.
Should be a big deal, so should about 10 stories everyday. Everything gets buried in the chaos, I imagine this is by design on some level.
Mr.Bill
(24,344 posts)where Trump will actually have to shoot that person on 5th Avenue to push everything off the news.
But after watching him at CPAC and the crowd's reaction, I'm sure such an act would raise him ten points in the polls. I'm not kidding, nor is this sarcasm.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,924 posts)like Pravda is really shocking. There is no longer a dividing line between the Trump administration and Fox; Fox, more than Trump, decides government policy. Murdoch's clearly-stated motivation is money, not ideology, and he discovered years ago that fear gets people wound up and tuned in. Scary stuff and I don't know what can be done about it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but unfortunately no longer a subscription to NYer. I'll spend one of my remaining "3 free articles for this month" on this one, though.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,924 posts)If you had signed one as a condition of getting a job, for example, then witnessed a crime related to your employment, and later you reported the crime but got sued for violating the NDA, a court wouldn't enforce it.
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)bluestarone
(17,093 posts)Wishing so!
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)"We license only individual broadcast stations. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox) or other organizations with which stations have relationships (such as PBS or NPR)"
Also, one of the reasons so many campaign laws fell by the wayside was because scotus ruled that broadcast license holders were subject to laws written by congress because the airwaves belong to the people of the US, not the broadcasters. When cable tv came along and the cable lines were privately held, the ruling didn't apply.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)an actual source of "news". They are a for-profit propaganda outlet, and should be treated as such.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are very big changes needed. How about re-creating a requirement to provide a half hour of honest, public-service news every day? Cable and on-line services where people go to get news, not just broadcasts?
How about a national "no yelling fire in a crowded nation" law for the dissemination of blatant political lies?
November 3, 2020, hurry up!
am I not the least bit surprised?