Posted on 08/15/2020 9:29:27 AM PDT by John Robinson
- The FCC fairness doctrine was disassembled in 1987. The doctrine was put in place to assure the American people are getting fair, non bias news coverage. Since then there have been no regulations on cable television with regards to children’s content and we haven’t had a non bias source of news since.
- The Clinton administration then introduced the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Which further weakened regulations as it allowed for media cross-ownership. According to the FCC, the goal of the law was to "let anyone enter any communications business – to let any communications business compete in any market against any other."The legislation's primary goal was deregulation of the converging broadcasting and telecommunications markets. However, the law's regulatory policies have been questioned, including the effects of dualistic re-regulation of the communications market.
- In 2011, law that helped to enacted the FCC fairness doctrine was removed from the federal registry entirely.
- The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (SMMA), was buried in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act because it repealed the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act. The Smith-Mundt Act aka the U.S. Information and Education Act... which authorized the State Department to engage in propagandizing foreign countries as a form of public diplomacy.
The SMA established that via the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Voice of America (VOA), and Radio Free Europe (RFE), the U.S. State Department and Office of Public Affairs were authorized to disseminate propaganda to foreign publics, but were strictly prohibited from releasing that same propaganda in America for public consumption.
This prohibition was lifted in 2012, when the SMMA was signed into law by President Obama, allowing the same propaganda disseminated by our government to foreign publics, to now be released in the U.S. for the very first time.
And yes, our government is also now allowed to create propaganda tailored specifically for U.S. public consumption, using any media as it sees fit, while remaining anonymous as the source of the material being reported.
Soon to be ex-liberal?
OUTSTANDING post JimRob. Thanks for that and Free Republic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g
Just sayin’...cool song and video.
Yes, that type.
Yeah there is nothing shocking or new about it. Msm is the equivalent of tass
Ministry of Propaganda
First rule when trying to find a job - turn off the news. It doesn’t do anyone any good. Can’t really stand it much while fully employed either.
No.
Yep...not to mentional National Socialist skidMark Zuckerberg’s book burning...er thought burning. It’s the “new normal”...neo nazi, right skidMark, Jerk Dorsey?
Berrie O Bozo...we could go on all day.
Where’s Neo...blue pill?...red pill?
I always thought the Fairness Doctrine kept news to the basic questions: who, what, where, when, and how. Opinions were stifled or completely labeled. Yet the demise of the FD allowed for greater freedom of speech, i.e. Russ Limbaugh. We need a conservative George Soros.
If we still had the “Fairness Doctrine”, never fair, with opposing viewpoints being aired at times when no one was watching, we wouldn’t have Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, or indeed Fox News at all.
There are so many better ways to get news than ‘watching’ it. I think the last time I saw ‘tv news’ was when laid up with a back injury. It happened to be when Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died. Those were the only 2 stories for a week. I can’t imagine it has much improved.
95% of so called Journalists are self admitted Democrats, Liberals, Progressives or Socialists.
Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.
...we could go on all day...WE DO...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idn50Xj_CiY
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Incredibly appropriate PG
WELL DONE!
Actually only Rush would be effected. FCC rules have nothing to do with cable. And even with Rush, if the stations had a lib show on they be fine. The rule only says both sides must be presented. Nothing about time. Doesn’t even have to be in the same show. Actually Rush could functionally market 2 shows, he could has his own rebuttal show with some dude.
Given how the Fairness Doctrine was used to keep conservative voices off the air - remember that Rush Limbaugh and the talk radio revolution was impossible until the Fairness Doctrine was repealed - I’d be very wary of anything advocating its restoration.
Without the end of the Fairness Doctrine, we never would have had conservative talk radio. You could almost say the modern conservative movement as we know it today has its very genesis in the end of the Fairness Doctrine. That’s why the Democrats were howling to bring it back not so long ago.
What they don’t want you to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HFxVvrXjCg&feature=youtu.be
Now while this is produced by InfoWars. And the “arrest” of Mille the journalist over this video is quite suspicious, it is worth a watch.
It details how the shadow government uses simple AI algorithms to influence anyone or anything. Including, especially including, our lying media.
95% of so called Journalists are self admitted Democrats, Liberals, Progressives or Socialists.
Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.
LOL! Good quip, KC. Worth repeating. Smile of the day. It’s good to smile...especially when they don’t have their mask on.
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