applegrove (62,483 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024538402
Fox's Krauthammer Very Upset FCC Wants To Study Their Propaganda Channel
Skip Intro (19,110 posts)
1. It's more than just faux, and it doesn't sound good.
In fact, it begins soon, in my home state capital of Columbia, SC, from what I've read.
I don't want the federal government in any newsroom, "monitoring" content.
I hope no one else here does either.
Skip gets it. He is one of the few, however.
applegrove (62,483 posts)
2. I'm dying to see faux exposed as a Roger Ailes behind a curtain. Don't you think
media concentration and propaganda is a problem? I mean if those 7 ceos are micromanaging all content across all media in the USA I want to know.
Skip gets that when the totalitarian state comes crashing down around us, it won't just be the right that gets crushed.
aggiesal (1,836 posts)
28. 3 liberal hosts on MSNBC . . .
along with RW Morning Joe does not mirror 24/7 Fox noise machine.
And when a Florida judge rules that Fox has the right to lie over
our airways using the FCC license that we granted them, I believe
the FCC has the authority to monitor whether these news outlets
are serving the public good
Um... Fox is a cable news network. They don't use public airwaves, genius.
azureblue (585 posts)
30. Oh BS
perhaps you should review what is what like before the fairness in broadcasting law was repealed. And perhaps you should take a little time to learn to differentiate between news based on fact (see Canada) and propaganda based on lies and half truths, reported as "fair and balanced" news. There once was a time when the news and news reporters took it upon themselves to report the full truth of a story, and took time to dig in depth and research before reporting- Cronkite, E. R Morrow, etc. Men of integrity. Fox can't even shine their shoes -Fox is a propaganda outlet for the GOP, and nothing more. Fox cares nothing about the truth, and never did. Personally I would like to see the FCC yank the license of any news station that willfully broadcasts a lie as factual news.
Oh, what a proper little facist!
Spitfire of ATJ (13,454 posts)
37. I'm dying to see the media go back to being the watchdog....
Reagan made so many false statements that fact checking him took longer than his press conferences.
The news media took a lot of flack over picking on the old man so they took the lazy way out and invited on Democrats to counter him.
The PROBLEM with that is it opened to door to the NONSENSE we have now of smash mouth politics and "the truth is somewhere in between" / "both sides do it" false equivalency crap demonstrated by the likes of CNN. The truth is the truth and the news used to tell us the truth even though it hurts sometimes.
As oppsed to Obama. Everything the dear leader spouts is lies- so it's quick to do the fact check. There are no facts or truths.
cherokeeprogressive (17,275 posts)
21. It's scary people think this is OK because... Fox! Shortsighted in the extreme.
Makes me think of the Hunt for Red October scene where the "Political Officer" asks Sean Connery if he can announce the ship's orders to the crew.
Would we hand over EVERY ****ING NEWSROOM IN THE COUNTRY to the federal government because we hate Fox News? Seriously? What does that say about how we feel about the First Amendment if we answered a resounding "YES!" to that question?
So very few of the monkiez get it.
brooklynite (15,173 posts)
47. Thank god you don't get to decide this...
First, if you think that what Fox News is doing is dangerous, or that "lying us into war" is a chargeable offense, I invite you you revisit "Yellow Journalism" and the origins of the Spanish American War.
Second, if we get to apply standards of "truth" to the media, we'd be extending the same rights to the Republicans when they're in charge.
I'll take an unfettered First Amendment if you don't mind.
BlancheSplanchnik (9,808 posts)
20. oh YES!!!! YES!!!! GO, FCC, GO!
Wow! Finally finally FINALLY!
Yes, I'm shouting.... I sure wasn't holding my breath, but I've seriously been wanting something done to expose fux spews, friend to the authoritarian conservstive, blustering, incurious, primitive-brained demographic.
It's actually happening? It's starting finally? Ohhhhhhhhh yaaaaaaaaaaay!
P.S. i dont consider deceitful indoctrination brainwashing propaganda that endangers the country (meaning, it's a threat to we individuals who make up the country) to be subject to free speech laws. "Private Ownersip", my ass. They have a transfusion needle full of poison stuck in a vein of every repuke around, and they want to own govt. i.e. own us.
This is an exemption by and for the power elites who own the network. And a political party.
Now read that. Think about what this monkie said. She doesn't consider what anyone who disagrees with her says is as 'protected free speach.'
Censorship in Nazi Germany was implemented by the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. All media—literature, music, newspapers, and public events—were censored. Attempts were also made to censor private communications, such as mail and even private conversation, with mixed results.
The aim of censorship under the Nazi regime was simple: to reinforce Nazi power and to suppress opposing viewpoints and information. Punishments ranged from banning of presentation and publishing of works to deportation, imprisonment, or even execution in a concentration camp.[citation needed]
Hitler outlined his theory of propaganda and censorship in Mein Kampf:
"The chief function of propaganda is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be given time so they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on their mind
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
Read more at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joseph_stalin.html#ROP1kYCvITEU6iWe.99
