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NERW: The FCC in Authoritarian Times
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Only two broadcast news organizations in modern times have admitted to lying in their reporting and paid multimillion dollar settlements as a result: FOX News and Newsmax.
You don't actually seem to have an issue with that. Your issue is with broadcasters who report things you don't like because of your political leanings. See above for actual bias leading to real consequences.
It seems the unstated purpose of Carr's investigations is to show how everyone else is just as bad as Fox and Newsmaxx, That way you discredit all of media as a whole, so the people only believe one person. You know who.
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Are man eating sharks humanitarians?
Sorry, the thread's just getting a little tense.
Not if Carr auctions off the rest of the TV spectrum.
Coming soon:
FCC’s Carr Calls for New Spectrum Auction for First Responders
New chair’s plans for first commission meeting will also address TV loudness
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The difference being that the FCC wasn't the one going after Fox and Newsmax, it was a civil lawsuit from the company they slandered. The FCC isn't supposed to regulate content because of a little thing called the First Amendment. Supposedly it still exists, but the branch that's supposed to enforce it is stocked with Trump loyalists now, so who knows?
As I've said, Carr is great at reinterpreting laws to fit his agenda. So his interpretation of the first amendment is that it's strictly aimed at congress. Why? Because that's the first word. So if he uses accepted laws to intimidate and stifle forms of speech, it's OK because all he's doing is enforcing laws passed by congress that have passed judicial evaluation. And all he's really doing is abridging the freedoms of the media, which he points out have a low level of trust anyway. So he believes the people will support him.
In less than 4 weeks? It is amazing that anyone would expect any kind of immediate change over what took 4 years to put into effect.
Yet for decades and decades they have regulated obscenity and profanity. "Lowest Unit Rate" requires FCC control over ad rates for certain campaigns. Stations must do a certain amount of public affairs and "other" programming. There are, in fact, quire a few limitations on unabridged speech.
What we are seeing now is an attempt to regulate "false" reporting. The intentional editing of a Kamala Harris interview is the hill they are attempting to attack, but the attack is being done by someone who obviously has not a single clue on how newscasts and the like are edited due to time restraints.
Heck, back in my first college journalism classes over 60 years ago we were taught how to either edit recorded interviews or extract important quotes for print media.
Except it's selective regulating. With an ideological purpose, aimed to excite the base.
You can see it in how it's being covered in the conservative media.
Great. Auctioning 3.98 - 4.2 GHz would completely eliminate all remaining C-band satellite television and radio spectrum. C-band would cease to be a thing, and all of its users would be forced to spend untold millions converting their operations over to Ku-band. There might be enough room for that in 5-10 years, after all the linear cable networks have died off and their gargantuan multiplexes, currently scattered all over C-band for the cable industry, have ceased. But not now.Coming soon:
FCC’s Carr Calls for New Spectrum Auction for First Responders
New chair’s plans for first commission meeting will also address TV loudness
Did you see how much money these auctions bring in?
Do you know how much this will cost the satellite companies?
It's premature, and I hope it doesn't come to pass until it's time.
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Right-wing caterwauling is not proof.
This nonsense never made mainstream press.
The thing that was covered repeatedly throughout the campaign while the exact same behavior in the first and now second Trump administration garners barely a notice?
Cover-up? It was daily freaking news all over the Times, Post and elsewhere. And do we really, really want to talk ignoring obvious capacity issues when the current president is a blithering moron?
Remind us which mainstream media outlets dug into Jared’s multi-billion dollar payoff from the Saudis?
Cool. Were those signatures from media outlets?
They were all reported on extensively. No one minimized a damn thing.
They have and continue to this day to downplay his abject lunacy and incoherence as at most mild and Amusing eccentricity. Making Canada a state. Taking over Gaza. The demonstrable lies they continue to tiptoe around with euphemisms like “claiming without evidence.”
The thing that doesn’t exist except in the fever dreams of the far right.
Nice try but no. I believe that facts are real. They are not conservative nor liberal. It is as the saying goes not the job of the media to present both sides of a debate over whether it’s raining. It’s to report the fact that it’s raining.
Setting aside that none of us have data on every single reporter, it does no such thing. That’s a tired old trope trotted out to obscure that facts are not political.
Imaginary
It’s entirely relevant to the imaginary story. And your imaginary story automatically assumes the exact same thing would be ignored were a supposed “favorable” politician in the same fantasy scenario. Convenient how you left that hypothetical out as if it proved something.
Congratulations. You’re hardly the only person who took that course.
By wholesale, indiscriminate firings and shutdowns of things the president and his puppet Trump dislike. Waste is real. So are the people who will die for lack of aid. So are the students with special needs and IEPs who will be left behind by the wholesale destruction of the department of education. So are the consumers who will lose protections from predatory financial institutions. And so are god knows who else will suffer from whatever fresh destruction today brings.
Remarkable how it wasn’t forensic accountants dispatched, with proper security clearances, to provide a transparent audit of alleged waste. Instead it’s a person with an axe to grind and a troop of unvetted (and at least one openly racist) inexperienced hackers who magically find “waste” that were supposed to accept at face value, overriding the supposed role of Congressional oversight.
Or, and hear this out, it’s a comparison with very strong parallels to something we’ve seen before. Sorrynotsorry those comparisons and direct analogies aren’t your favorite things to hear. You can pretend they don’t exist all you want; it makes it no less true.
Many of them hold the extremist ideology.
For damn sure. McCarthyism will look like a cakewalk by comparison.
Hmmm, will it? We’re already seeing the acquiescence of media. I’m not so sure we’ll legitimately see the full scope. There is no obvious Murrow out there who will speak truth to power like he did.
My concern is we get a glossed-over, euphemism-laden soft-pedaling of the horror show, and dutiful diminishing of those who push back.
When we’re already seeing “bothsiderism” from the press regarding the likes of RFK Jr and his dangerous lies as if they’re legitimate claims…it does not portend a vibrant, vigorous response from the press down the road. When the sitting vice president contradicts the constitutional system of oversights and checks-and-balances by flat-out lying about the role of the courts as it relates to executive power and is barely fact-checked by the press, what exactly is the reason to think they will stand firm in the face of withering pressure to call out overreach and illegal actions in the future?
At least in the midst of McCarthy’s and Hoover’s reigns of abuse, Murrow, with the resources of the network, laid bare what was going on. We’re already seeing the groundwork laid to ensure there is no repeat.
I typically tilt right on economic issues while being left of center on social concerns. I don't find much for me on talk radio or cable news. Cable news is mostly commentary, and it has almost certainly done more to divide us as a nation than any politician.
I don't think society has moved right. When you look at where we were 20 years ago and where we are now, no reasonable person could conclude we've moved right from where we were then. We may have moved right from where we were five years ago, but we're much to the left of where we were twenty years ago. Data would also seem to indicate COVID radicalized a small percentage of the population, most of which has shifted rightward, though politics is really more of a horseshoe than a line.
I was assured Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump, by his presence alone, would lower grocery prices on day 1. I had a Senator telling us daily that as soon as Saint Donald was in the White House, groceries would be affordable. So where's my $1.80 gas.
What's the definition of far left, other than anyone opposed to Trump?
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