Hamlette (13,102 posts)
We must find a way to rid our society of Fox news. What to do?
The most frightening thing I heard last week was that Nixon would never have been forced from office if Fox had been around to give him cover and protect him.
Could we boycott? What else can we do? It eats people's brains.
OK, Dummy, I'll give you an answer. FoxNews is biased in one direction about as much as CNN and MSNBC are biased in the other direction. I don't watch any of them, but I respect the Constitutional right to free speech, so I hope that none of them are ever shut down by governmental overreach. Now, according to the DUmpMonkeys, I'm a Nazi fascist, so let's see what liberals think about the First Amendment.
calimary (46,582 posts)
1. I ask myself that every day.
Maybe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated?
How about bringing back the limitations on media ownership?
Their key demographic is elderly and white and slowly but surely dying off. They’ll hide behind the First Amendment and survive. Unfortunately.
Right out of the chute. First Amendment is bad and speech must be regulated. I wonder if they understand how ineffective the Fairness Doctrine was and why it was ruled unconstitutional.
LuckyCharms (2,214 posts)
43. No. What should be applied to websites is a law making
mass political propaganda illegal.
Wait just a minute, aren't you on a website dedicated to political propaganda?
Star Member Hortensis (20,234 posts)
81. Here you go. But I'd apply that to all means of communicating
mass lies and deceptions to audiences of certain sizes or other pertinent criteria (such as a percentage of residents of a single county or interest group). Normal free speech, including political and activist, would be protected scrupulously, as would speaking truth. Secessionists could still discuss their plans for armed rebellion on CSPAN (as long as it didn't proceed to the illegal active planning stage, as now). But an individual person's pernicious lies could be cut off if influence was large enough to be deemed inimical political discourse.
Special courts kept busy of course.
You're on a site that is devoted to pernicious lies. Many of your members encourage lying if there is a chance it will damage a Republican's reputation.
syringis (2,062 posts)
2. Hello Hamlette
There is only one way :
Give access to a good quality education to all kids. And learn them critic sense.
It means more taxes, more involvment of Federal institution but a great result at the end.
Insinuate that people are too stupid to know better, while typing out "learn them critic sense" and misspelling "involvement". Yeah, I want you shaping educational policy.
JohnnyRingo (11,823 posts)
7. It's not Fox News that's a problem
The problem is there's a market for that misinformation. It's the people who need their news tailored to their beliefs that are a problem, and they aren't going away soon.
This is pretty funny considering they believe any news article, Facebook post, tweet or bouncy that supports their hatred of Republicans.
SonofDonald (955 posts)
68. When I worked at joint base Lewis McChord
In the period after 2001 all the tv's in all the buildings that had them were on Faux Noise 24/7/365.
Even my local Dodge dealership has theirs tuned to it in the waiting room.
Every time I go to a place that has them on a screen, if able I find the remote and put a lock out on the station with my own code.
I've done it a few times now.
Priceless.
Is this Doug's mole?
ileus (15,368 posts)
35. Once we're firmly back in power we make opposition media illegal.
It's really that simple. Once we're back in total control (2020) we should power of the people behind us to completely crush the GOP and their media. We can pass laws basically outlawing conservative viewpoints as hate speech. Once that's accomplished we can move on to beating down religion as hate speech.
In the next 10 years the day of old white people will finally come to an end and we'll have total control of our country for the first time ever...By 2025 or so they'll be too weak to resist.
Finally, one of them spells out what they all are dancing around.
Lot's more totalitarian stupidity at the thread if you're interested in rowing over.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210194550
