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You think that’s news you’re watching?
2020-08-15 | Alanna Hutt

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- The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (SMMA), was buried in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act because it repealed the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act.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.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: fairness; media; mediabias; propaganda
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To: Responsibility2nd

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


21 posted on 08/15/2020 10:00:49 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: John Robinson

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.


22 posted on 08/15/2020 10:05:34 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: All

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


23 posted on 08/15/2020 10:06:20 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: John Robinson

Good post.


24 posted on 08/15/2020 10:06:37 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: All; Pollard; PGalt; The Pack Knight; jdege; discostu; Kickass Conservative; motor_racer; ...
Her point was made at the end, she viewed these events as allowing the State Department to run propaganda against US citizens within US boundaries.

"shelterguy: Ministry of Propaganda" Indeed!

25 posted on 08/15/2020 10:09:42 AM PDT by John Robinson
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To: John Robinson

I have noticed that our local stations present endless public service announcements. My question would be, is anyone watching this crap anymore?


26 posted on 08/15/2020 10:13:25 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: All

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


27 posted on 08/15/2020 10:17:03 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: John Robinson

I’ll not that the tax-funded NPR/PBS sound like the propaganda wing of the DNC.


28 posted on 08/15/2020 10:22:19 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: posterchild
I don't watch network news at all, but I will watch the local Denver news, just for the cute girls.

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.

29 posted on 08/15/2020 10:22:35 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.)
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To: John Robinson

Sounds like your friend is on the right path. Keep dispensing red pills as needed.


30 posted on 08/15/2020 10:31:25 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: John Robinson

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.


31 posted on 08/15/2020 10:36:29 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: John Robinson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

(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

32 posted on 08/15/2020 10:40:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: John Robinson

He now understands he is being “Told a story”


33 posted on 08/15/2020 10:43:02 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: John Robinson

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.


34 posted on 08/15/2020 10:48:56 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (A Man Hears What He Wants to Hear and Disregards the Rest)
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To: PGalt

OUTSTANDING post JimRob.

************

John Robinson is the son of JimRob.


35 posted on 08/15/2020 10:49:13 AM PDT by deport
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To: John Robinson

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.


36 posted on 08/15/2020 11:01:25 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: discostu
FCC rules have nothing to do with cable.

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?

37 posted on 08/15/2020 11:05:43 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

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.


38 posted on 08/15/2020 11:11:02 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: John Robinson

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.”


39 posted on 08/15/2020 11:22:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: discostu
So, if I build my own transmitter and splash all over the satellite link frequencies, there's no agency that would stop me?

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?

40 posted on 08/15/2020 11:37:59 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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