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Post by indecankelly on Jun 18, 2012 15:12:48 GMT -5
I love the conversation that we are having about Government Policy as it goes with elected officials, but I think there is a real opportunity to restore the "Fairness Doctrine", so we can have a wall separating "news" and "opinion", and to have a real "fair and balanced" approach to media coverage again. Too many lies happen every second of every day in our media, that no matter what we propose for change, it will probably get lost, distorted, or blatantly lied about to meet a crushing end. We need impartial media again, and the US government should hold broadcast licenses up by the balls until we get it.
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john
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Post by john on Jun 22, 2012 14:30:52 GMT -5
Allen says: "We need impartial media again, and the US government should hold broadcast licenses up by the balls until we get it."
Unfortunately the regulators are often appointed from the groups that they regulate and/or are eventually bought off. Who is to regulate the regulators?
The fairness rule was kind of good but some topics are so lopsided that the other side is a mere joke.
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Post by frankleespeaking on Jun 22, 2012 17:03:08 GMT -5
i kinda despise the word "fair"
it is way too subjective. everyone has a different definition of what is "fair"
fact? opinion? misleading information? those things are much easier to agree on.
you can't necessarily force a news organization to give both sides of the story...you can however push for more public and diverse ownership of news outlets, and more critical thinking skills taught in schools.
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