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- The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (SMMA), was buried in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act because it repealed the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act.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.
OUTSTANDING! Thanks. I’m only 8 minutes in and I have 3 pgs of notes...names...companies...individuals. I took a break early this am. Gotta get back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQjM7gV6mI
Now? Dunno.
MAGAKAG
Conservatives are starting to have alternatives. Newsmax, America’s Voice, OANN, Blaze, The First. All are available on the free pluto.tv although it’s OAN Encore which is yesterday’s news. Then on fox, we have Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Hannity, Dobbs, Waters, Greg Gutfeld.
The biggest problem is that a lot of people just watch their local news, ABC/NBC/CBS, who somewhat parrot their cable counterparts, albeit in a less dramatic way. It’s still propaganda and they portrait Trump in a very bad light.
TAKE names. KICK azz...azzholes..and donkeys when possible. We get the rest in subsequent elections.
Ready - Aim - Vote (early & often...where’s my ‘rat playbook?)
C’mon November
Good post.
"shelterguy: Ministry of Propaganda" Indeed!
I have noticed that our local stations present endless public service announcements. My question would be, is anyone watching this crap anymore?
Live action opinion begins NOW ... with your hosts John and Jane Globalist-Jones ... we do have some fires and traffic accidents to give an illusion of factual content in what else we say.
Here’s the lead opinion ... President Trump faces his biggest challenge yet and this time it’s real ... snicker
I’ll not that the tax-funded NPR/PBS sound like the propaganda wing of the DNC.
Once upon a time, I was in the hospital for several weeks. I would usually have the TV on some news station. Every nurse who came into the room stopped and stared at the TV for a minute or two.
I finally asked one why they all did that, and she said Every one of their patients has 'Judge So-And-So' on TV.
Sounds like your friend is on the right path. Keep dispensing red pills as needed.
What the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” did was give government control over content. Taht’s dangerous and unconstitutional.
It’s no accident that the Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987, the Rush Limbaugh Program came along in 1988, and the left has been complaining ever since.
(derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.
...The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare;smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order”.[17]
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Same as it ever was
He now understands he is being “Told a story”
From the friend: “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.”
And, if one puts the government in charge of determining what is ‘fair and balanced’, then the government can insure that only news it agrees with will be published and that’s just another name for propaganda.
OUTSTANDING post JimRob.
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John Robinson is the son of JimRob.
From the article: “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.”
As many have noted since the end of the Obama reign of terror little by little we are finding out the damage done to our Constitutional Republic by the gross error of electing the bastard to office of POTUS.
FCC rules need to cover cable. The pretense was that since cable was "piped" directly into users' homes and covered under a contract, there were no airwaves in the communications. The reality is that OUR airwaves have bandwidth tied up so the cable content provides can beam signals from cable to ground station to satellite to other ground stations.
Why is such propaganda, in defiance of political campaign laws and anti-monopoly legislation, allowed on OUR airwaves?
Why is OUR tax money subsidizing ABCCBSCNNNBCNPR?
No they absolutely should NEVER cover cable. There’s no “pretense” the FCC’s job is to lease the public airwaves. Cable does not use the public airwaves. Therefore cable is NOT covered by the FCC. And never should be. No satellite transmission does NOT use the airwaves. It’s way outside the bandwidths that are regulated. If you’re going to give the FCC control over that then they get EVERYTHING, including your cellphone and home wifi.
They aren’t. And they aren’t.
Freedom of the press means anyone can say anything. It’s up to the person reading, watching, and listening to figure it out.
I would prefer no regulation of anything concerning “the news.”
If I build my own cellular transmitter and step all over other cell connections to nearby towers (who cares as long as mine works) there's no agency or laws that have a say in that?
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