As a person older than dirt, I lived during the time when the Fairness Doctrine was in practiceтАж So if you will imagine sitting in front of a grainy B&W 16тАЭ screen on a Sunday Morning at 7:30AM while a guy in a suit reads a boring statement for about 3 minutesтАж That was the heyday of that policy.
The genuine beginning of the End of Democracy was the SCOTUS decision of тАЬCitizensтАЭ United - that made money equivalent to speech
Exactly! So, new solutions must be found. We are hanging on by a thread, visa vice ill informed about equal informed electorate. Where and why did you and I learn, at least for the most part, the difference between shite and shinola?
Before Reagan, the news division was a loss leader, anyone who even mentioned a sponsor was fired.
Not news is part of the Infotainment division, and is a source of revenue, and the last thing anyone who wants to keep their paycheck and have a career wants to do is shit in their own messkit, by pissing off the egg laying goose.
Scotty, substance, Biden's story, is not getting out.
And where does that buck stop?
If we don't bring back the Fairness Doctrine, and fast, is there any hope?
As a person older than dirt, I lived during the time when the Fairness Doctrine was in practiceтАж So if you will imagine sitting in front of a grainy B&W 16тАЭ screen on a Sunday Morning at 7:30AM while a guy in a suit reads a boring statement for about 3 minutesтАж That was the heyday of that policy.
The genuine beginning of the End of Democracy was the SCOTUS decision of тАЬCitizensтАЭ United - that made money equivalent to speech
The fairness doctrine is a good start, but it only applied to broadcast. Many more people get their opinions online these days.
Exactly! So, new solutions must be found. We are hanging on by a thread, visa vice ill informed about equal informed electorate. Where and why did you and I learn, at least for the most part, the difference between shite and shinola?
There are no problems, only solutions! From the guy who wrote the song "imagine", John Lennon
No, And chance of it coming back are near zero.
Before Reagan, the news division was a loss leader, anyone who even mentioned a sponsor was fired.
Not news is part of the Infotainment division, and is a source of revenue, and the last thing anyone who wants to keep their paycheck and have a career wants to do is shit in their own messkit, by pissing off the egg laying goose.
Both works for me!