What happened to the Fairness Doctrine?

[VanishingPoi]

I remember when Reagan killed it. We once had real news among all the BS. Not anymore.

It is entertainment.

[Pio1980]

It was replaced by Excrement in Fraudcasting.

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[Rajoo]

Back then if a newspaper misreported a story, they printed a retraction. One cannot retract anything from the Internet; once you hit send, information goes up like a mushroom cloud. So now a news story can be spun any which way and there will be no consequences, and they are all web based. BTW, this is just my opinion.

And for TV news, only follow Fox and you will be OK.

[BlueStreak]

The news became "infotainment". Then the people foisting this farce upon us noticed that the slower witted among us believe whatever they are told, watch more thus raising ratings and profits...........and vote according to the scaremongering misinformation they are being fed. The political parties noticed this as well.

Dave

[JBS...]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

The news became "infotainment". Then the people foisting this farce upon us noticed that the slower witted among us believe whatever they are told, watch more thus raising ratings and profits...........and vote according to the scaremongering misinformation they are being fed. The political parties noticed this as well.

Dave

Yup, and that explains the last two presidential elections

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by JBS...

Yup, and that explains the last two presidential elections

My ass. The GOP has lost 5 of the last 6 popular presidential votes. And the 2004 vote the GOP won (and I suppose I have to give Dick Cheney credit) was all about a well played fear card.

The fairness doctrine has nothing to do with it. What has everything to do with it is changing demographics and the GOP's inability to realize that new blood in the electorate is rejecting their theocratic and phony moralistic bullshit. And it will be 6 out of 7 in 2012 unless they extract their heads from out their asses.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My ass. The GOP has lost 5 of the last 6 popular presidential votes. And the 2004 vote the GOP won (and I suppose I have to give Dick Cheney credit) was all about a well played fear card.

The fairness doctrine has nothing to do with it. What has everything to do with it is changing demographics and the GOP's inability to realize that new blood in the electorate is rejecting their theocratic and phony moralistic bullshit. And it will be 6 out of 7 in 2012 unless they extract their heads from out their asses.

It has for the main part nothing to do with winning or losing elections.

The right wing news propaganda machine in itself is big business. Note the amount
of people who became millionaires from it.

[VanishingPoi]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

It has for the main part nothing to do with winning or losing elections.

The right wing news propaganda machine in itself is big business. Note the amount
of people who became millionaires from it.

That is exactly why they hated and still hate the idea of a fairness doctrine.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My ass. The GOP has lost 5 of the last 6 popular presidential votes. And the 2004 vote the GOP won (and I suppose I have to give Dick Cheney credit) was all about a well played fear card.

The fairness doctrine has nothing to do with it. What has everything to do with it is changing demographics and the GOP's inability to realize that new blood in the electorate is rejecting their theocratic and phony moralistic bullshit. And it will be 6 out of 7 in 2012 unless they extract their heads from out their asses.

Which is why the Koch teapublican aim may be to wreck constitutional government altogether. A dysfunctional pass-nothing congress, and an activist militia movement both point in this direction.

Anyone remember the abortive 'tea party militia' movement of a couple of years ago, in either Kansas or OK? TPers in state government wanted to sanction semi-official paramilitaries, with the mission to 'resist federal infraingements.' Sanity prevailed and the thing was quashed, that time....

[merrylander]

In this vein;

"A lie can be half way around the world before truth can get its pants on"

W. S. Churchill