• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!!!

    Fox giving “news” while legally not being news has led to crimes, that’s a fact. Maybe prosecutor Kamala could go for a bite but damn it’d be nice to have the news be true again

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Another of the many sanity checks Ratass Reagan took from us after the GOP collectively shat itself over Nixon’s press reception.

      So much of our nations 4 decades of struggle have come from this moment, and no one involved will ever face justice for degrading our nation so much for so little benefit for so few.

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      The “fairness doctrine” didn’t prevent news from being crazy entertainment. Watch the 1975 movie “Network”. Faye Dunaway runs part of a TV network that tries (among other things) to present videos from a terrorist organization as a weekly program. It was ridiculous, but plausible at the time.