There’s still time to help the rest of America break those bonds by explaining how profitable hate and fear are for these media and social media empires…
Yes! I work with people in recovery and many who never fully 'get it' cross-addict on Fox News, social media, conspiracy theories. The dopamine hit from drugs and alcohol is replaced by the media hit. One distinction; drugs/alcohol don't supplement our dopamine/gabapentin/endorphin systems, they hijack them; our natural brain chemistry dies out and the drug takes over. Media addiction does use our 'natural feel good' neurotransmitters but also completely hijacks that system as well so that the neurotransmitters are not produced without the 'hit'. 'Likes' on Facebook are addictive. You know what else is addictive? Having enough people 'like' my comments on this platform! Seriously, I could live without those 'likes' so it's not a disorder but, you see what I mean;). The only solution: treat this like any other addiction! And, a lot of people who are addicted to Fox, so to speak also have other drug/alcohol issues. We learn in 12-step programs that 'love and tolerance' is our code. I cannot be fully sober unless I live by that Tennent.
AFAIK, the Fairness Doctrine was trashed by a Reagan appointee. It also appears the supremes confirmed that the FCC could impose or remove the doctrine within its regulatory purview.
Fast forward to now. There are two democratic appointees and two republican. There is currently an open 5th seat which has been blocked by Senate filibuster since Biden took office - the latest being Gigi Sohn. Sohn was subject to a massive smear campaign and withdrew from the nomination. The FCC is generally stagnant since it requires a majority vote to pass any controversial initiative.
Appointee Brendan Carr is a Federalist Society lawyer appointed to the FCC by TFG. You may have seen him as pretty active on Faux Entertainment. Carr's term expires this 30 June 2023. Which would leave us in a month+ with a 2-1 democratic majority on the commission.
So to the real reason for this post: Is it correct that as of 1 July with the 2-1 majority could the FCC reinstate the Fairness Doctrine? If not, why not? Same applies to the tragic 'wild-west' propaganda being spread on cable and the internet. Anyone?
Maybe, because of the 1st amendment, we can’t stop their broadcasts. But couldn’t we at least force them to show a 24/7 warning label scroll or something? With cigarettes they have to put a cancer warning label on each pack. Maybe TV propaganda stations would be forced to do something similar? It probably wouldn’t help the current addicted viewers but maybe at least it would slow down the acquisition of new viewers. Murdoch, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and others like them are no different than drug cartel leaders. They don’t care who gets killed or has their lives ruined as long as the money keeps rolling in. And it seems governments are just as ineffective at stopping the propaganda media outlets as they are at stopping the cartels.
Yes, yes, and yes -- and yet . . . There's something missing in this analysis: sex. (No, I don't mean "gender." I mean *sex*.) The perps in all the incidents that have gone viral in the last week, where individuals have shot and in some instances killed people for no reason other than their fear or their cussedness, have been men. The perps in the overwhelming majority of mass shootings have been men. The majority of the insurrectionists on 1/6 were men. Are men (XY-chromosome people) that over-represented in the Fox audience? If they aren't, why are they over-represented among those so susceptible to Fox propaganda that it leads them to do violence?
“Evil “is addictive and we are seeing the results of it. Multiple reports on people who have unwittingly walked into the devils trap.
Murdoch, sponsored by Regan continues to sponsor tag team evil through Murdoch , Trump, Marjorie T Greene, Jim Jordan and yes Tucker Carlson and Fox Lies TV. The underlying and outright fractures to relationship , to society that at least at one time we attempted to overrule by seeing people w different views as maybe wrong but tolerable. Now if you disagree with this weaponized group of addicts they shoot you and ask questions later. The truth is the answer .
To continue to tolerate out and out lies as an ‘alternative fact ‘ is deadly.
And its routine in Republican politics today .
Marjorie Taylor Greene may have come to believe her own lies .
But the damage caused by them is massive as was Trumps behavior, as is Jim Jordan’ s behavior and Kevin Mc Carthys and Mitch McConnells. I think all but Trump and Marjorie TG know the truth but are grooming themselves as they groom others to take their lies as truth.
There is a a campaign by the GOP to rout out young voters .
They have admitted they’ll lose without them .
We need to oppose their tactics to keep these voters as the GOP has already removed millions of Democrats from voter roles.
Excellent article and analysis -- thank you Thom. Aside from the rush these Fox viewers get, something else that's interested me about their behavior is the way they all spoke of QAnon, like they had the inside line to top-secret, classified information. Who even knows the source? -- it could have been AI-generated, but it gave their egos something to relish, thinking they had information that noone else had, making them feel they were VIP's who were being entrusted with it.
The trick is not wasting your breath on those who found a home with the haters. This is from Google and it tracks:
"What percentage of the population has personality disorders? An estimated 9 percent of U.S. adults have at least one personality disorder. Also, a person may have more than one personality disorder." Specifically about those with anti-social disorders "....it is three times more common among men than women. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder often also have co-occurring mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or substance use disorders."
America has a built-in audience dying to hear just what the hate media preaches. And if it seems there are many more anti-social people than when you grew up, there is. The population doubled over a 30 year period. Nine percent of US adults equals 23,155,150. Also consider the internet where these folks can connect and build layer by layer their stupid, vile theories and conspiracies.
For your own safety, also try to be careful with the folks you don't know.
I witnessed the power when Michael Savage came on the air in my Mom's life. Multiple copies of "Elders of Zion" had been on display, so she could start a conversation about being "anti-Zionist" not "anti-semitic." Gone. He hadn't been on the air long, and she asked me, what did I think about Michael Savage? (Minefield alert!) I gingerly dared to note: well, he is awfully Zionist.....I got a killer look and a "Humph". All waking hours, local hate to Rush to Savage to Fox. But she was on board with the (now esteemed) Scarborough re: Iraq invasion. Kill all the Arabs! Barbarians! No culture, no art, no literature! Same lady who took me to the Alhambra reverently as a kid. Some of the Jan. 6 defendants are relating conversion, sometimes related to Covid social situations. Paging Mr. Orwell.....
Yes! I work with people in recovery and many who never fully 'get it' cross-addict on Fox News, social media, conspiracy theories. The dopamine hit from drugs and alcohol is replaced by the media hit. One distinction; drugs/alcohol don't supplement our dopamine/gabapentin/endorphin systems, they hijack them; our natural brain chemistry dies out and the drug takes over. Media addiction does use our 'natural feel good' neurotransmitters but also completely hijacks that system as well so that the neurotransmitters are not produced without the 'hit'. 'Likes' on Facebook are addictive. You know what else is addictive? Having enough people 'like' my comments on this platform! Seriously, I could live without those 'likes' so it's not a disorder but, you see what I mean;). The only solution: treat this like any other addiction! And, a lot of people who are addicted to Fox, so to speak also have other drug/alcohol issues. We learn in 12-step programs that 'love and tolerance' is our code. I cannot be fully sober unless I live by that Tennent.
Thanks Thom.
AFAIK, the Fairness Doctrine was trashed by a Reagan appointee. It also appears the supremes confirmed that the FCC could impose or remove the doctrine within its regulatory purview.
Fast forward to now. There are two democratic appointees and two republican. There is currently an open 5th seat which has been blocked by Senate filibuster since Biden took office - the latest being Gigi Sohn. Sohn was subject to a massive smear campaign and withdrew from the nomination. The FCC is generally stagnant since it requires a majority vote to pass any controversial initiative.
Appointee Brendan Carr is a Federalist Society lawyer appointed to the FCC by TFG. You may have seen him as pretty active on Faux Entertainment. Carr's term expires this 30 June 2023. Which would leave us in a month+ with a 2-1 democratic majority on the commission.
So to the real reason for this post: Is it correct that as of 1 July with the 2-1 majority could the FCC reinstate the Fairness Doctrine? If not, why not? Same applies to the tragic 'wild-west' propaganda being spread on cable and the internet. Anyone?
A good bg on the history of the Fairness Doctrine at: https://sisyphuslitmag.org/2018/07/the-fairness-doctrine-how-we-lost-it-and-why-we-need-it-back/
Maybe, because of the 1st amendment, we can’t stop their broadcasts. But couldn’t we at least force them to show a 24/7 warning label scroll or something? With cigarettes they have to put a cancer warning label on each pack. Maybe TV propaganda stations would be forced to do something similar? It probably wouldn’t help the current addicted viewers but maybe at least it would slow down the acquisition of new viewers. Murdoch, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and others like them are no different than drug cartel leaders. They don’t care who gets killed or has their lives ruined as long as the money keeps rolling in. And it seems governments are just as ineffective at stopping the propaganda media outlets as they are at stopping the cartels.
Yes, yes, and yes -- and yet . . . There's something missing in this analysis: sex. (No, I don't mean "gender." I mean *sex*.) The perps in all the incidents that have gone viral in the last week, where individuals have shot and in some instances killed people for no reason other than their fear or their cussedness, have been men. The perps in the overwhelming majority of mass shootings have been men. The majority of the insurrectionists on 1/6 were men. Are men (XY-chromosome people) that over-represented in the Fox audience? If they aren't, why are they over-represented among those so susceptible to Fox propaganda that it leads them to do violence?
“Evil “is addictive and we are seeing the results of it. Multiple reports on people who have unwittingly walked into the devils trap.
Murdoch, sponsored by Regan continues to sponsor tag team evil through Murdoch , Trump, Marjorie T Greene, Jim Jordan and yes Tucker Carlson and Fox Lies TV. The underlying and outright fractures to relationship , to society that at least at one time we attempted to overrule by seeing people w different views as maybe wrong but tolerable. Now if you disagree with this weaponized group of addicts they shoot you and ask questions later. The truth is the answer .
To continue to tolerate out and out lies as an ‘alternative fact ‘ is deadly.
And its routine in Republican politics today .
Marjorie Taylor Greene may have come to believe her own lies .
But the damage caused by them is massive as was Trumps behavior, as is Jim Jordan’ s behavior and Kevin Mc Carthys and Mitch McConnells. I think all but Trump and Marjorie TG know the truth but are grooming themselves as they groom others to take their lies as truth.
There is a a campaign by the GOP to rout out young voters .
They have admitted they’ll lose without them .
We need to oppose their tactics to keep these voters as the GOP has already removed millions of Democrats from voter roles.
Another dank tactic from hell .
Excellent article and analysis -- thank you Thom. Aside from the rush these Fox viewers get, something else that's interested me about their behavior is the way they all spoke of QAnon, like they had the inside line to top-secret, classified information. Who even knows the source? -- it could have been AI-generated, but it gave their egos something to relish, thinking they had information that noone else had, making them feel they were VIP's who were being entrusted with it.
The trick is not wasting your breath on those who found a home with the haters. This is from Google and it tracks:
"What percentage of the population has personality disorders? An estimated 9 percent of U.S. adults have at least one personality disorder. Also, a person may have more than one personality disorder." Specifically about those with anti-social disorders "....it is three times more common among men than women. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder often also have co-occurring mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or substance use disorders."
America has a built-in audience dying to hear just what the hate media preaches. And if it seems there are many more anti-social people than when you grew up, there is. The population doubled over a 30 year period. Nine percent of US adults equals 23,155,150. Also consider the internet where these folks can connect and build layer by layer their stupid, vile theories and conspiracies.
For your own safety, also try to be careful with the folks you don't know.
Rupert the Duper is worth 29,000,000,000.
Tucker gets 6,000,000 a year. Worth = 30,000,000.
The FOX audience, ie, the "suckers and losers" (to quote Donald re: dead vets) are each worth ???
And rake in *** a year ???
I witnessed the power when Michael Savage came on the air in my Mom's life. Multiple copies of "Elders of Zion" had been on display, so she could start a conversation about being "anti-Zionist" not "anti-semitic." Gone. He hadn't been on the air long, and she asked me, what did I think about Michael Savage? (Minefield alert!) I gingerly dared to note: well, he is awfully Zionist.....I got a killer look and a "Humph". All waking hours, local hate to Rush to Savage to Fox. But she was on board with the (now esteemed) Scarborough re: Iraq invasion. Kill all the Arabs! Barbarians! No culture, no art, no literature! Same lady who took me to the Alhambra reverently as a kid. Some of the Jan. 6 defendants are relating conversion, sometimes related to Covid social situations. Paging Mr. Orwell.....