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To: bobk3
I like how you think. Many of your ideas are also mine and others ideas. The main thing is we have to wake people up to the fact that we cannot allow the media to operate as it has been operating. We must demand accountability out of it, and we must back it up with some arm twisting of some sort.

I personally thing we need to use the force of law to make the media hire conservatives. Silly me, but I thought discriminating against a creed was illegal.

203 posted on 11/21/2016 2:48:27 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

We’d get into a big morass of how do you legally define a liberal and a conservative.

Donald’s “QUITCHA LYING!” is probably as good as it gets, under classic American ideas.


214 posted on 11/21/2016 2:51:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
"I personally thing we need to use the force of law to make the media hire conservatives."

I don't. After doing my due diligence research, I know that the Founding Fathers' 1st Amendment was explicitly to protect political discourse, no matter how adverse it was to their principles, with exceptions about fire in a theater and other unrelated nonsense . That is why I never agreed with the "Fairness Doctrine" and still don't.

I don't know how to make the MSM more fair, but it's not through coercion or force. That is against everything I stand for as Constitutional advocate. I believe anyone can stand on a box, use a media outlet, peacefully assemble and say things I don't agree with. That said, slander, libel, sedition, and threats to persons are not included. There are criminal statutes and civil litigation for that.

Personally, I hope Trump did dress down those lying, embellishing, omitting, slanting, biased, manipulative prima donnas. It's been a long time coming. Just don't believe it happened as the "two" sources say.

372 posted on 11/21/2016 3:35:16 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

You can use the law, but not to directly force content. Some things we should be pushing:

-Cable freedom: allowing folks to pay only for the channels they want to subscribe to

- Using antitrust laws to break up the media conglomerates.

- Defund PBS.

- Make FCC TV and radio licenses for a limited time and resell them or lottery them off.

- Allow digital posting of legal notices instead of requiring physical publication. Sort of like how they do with tenders.


610 posted on 11/21/2016 6:50:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Right versus left is no longer as relevant as Nationalist versus globalist.)
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