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MSNBC’s Weissmann: Government Should ‘Step In’ to Regulate Fox News
Breitbart ^ | 04/21/2023 | Pam Key

Posted on 04/21/2023 10:56:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said Friday on “Morning Joe” that the only way to deter Fox News from “promulgating lies” is for the U.S. government to step in and regulate.

Co-host Eugene Robinson said, “A lot of people in media who were appalled at what Fox did in defaming Dominion and who were rooting for Fox to lose at the same time, who worried that an adverse ruling to Fox if they’ve gone to trial, might have an impact on libel law, might have an impact on the governing, Supreme Court decisions Sullivan v. The New York Times, that gives wide latitude to reputable news organizations, and that is kind of potentially a threat. How do we break this cycle, and how should the media be thinking about this?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foxnews; government; regulate; weissmann
Go beep yourself. I can't stand these people.
1 posted on 04/21/2023 10:56:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t Weissman the creep who was part of the Mueller team going after Trump on the Russian “collusion” set of lies? If so he should not be anywhere near a public forum.


2 posted on 04/21/2023 10:59:14 AM PDT by laconic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They want nothing less than total government control over what’s published, posted or transmitted. The government has most of the news media willingly denying freedom of thought, but not all. Twitter and Fox News are not conforming and the fascists want they controlled.


3 posted on 04/21/2023 10:59:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

General Motors went too easy on NBC.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-10-mn-1335-story.html


4 posted on 04/21/2023 10:59:58 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems like no one in the media was appalled about the lies spread related to Russian dossiers, Russian “disinformation”, etc., etc.


5 posted on 04/21/2023 11:00:05 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Andrew “Goebbels” Weissmann.

Herr Biden will consider your suggestion.


6 posted on 04/21/2023 11:00:09 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d be ok if they pulled the plug on all of cable news. It’s state sponsored propaganda.


7 posted on 04/21/2023 11:00:25 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let me get this straight.

MSNBC ISafraid of being held accounting for their chronic journalistic malpractice, but think that a government run “news” media is a better idea?


8 posted on 04/21/2023 11:01:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Arrest and Prosecute Weissman

Perjury against a President is a serious crime


9 posted on 04/21/2023 11:01:31 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since MSDNC already is.


10 posted on 04/21/2023 11:04:07 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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To: bray

I hope one of the CPAs for Enron catches up with him some day.


11 posted on 04/21/2023 11:07:58 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LOL!!! MORON!


12 posted on 04/21/2023 11:11:15 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s criminal, and part of a subculture that has long been dedicated to communism and the destruction of the republic.


13 posted on 04/21/2023 11:18:57 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Weissman should find himself a nice cozy communist country to live out his days since he’s so fond of the lifestyle. He needn’t bring anything more than the clothes on his back since that’s all he will have going forward in his commie utopia.


14 posted on 04/21/2023 11:27:19 AM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And when the tables are turned, will he think it’s OK for government to step in and regulate MSNBC news?


15 posted on 04/21/2023 11:35:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The press loses its institutional power the moment the public ceases to view it as being separate from government. If politicians aren’t worried about taking a beating in the newspapers, they won’t fear newspapers, and if the public sees that news reports are indistinguishable from party press releases, they’ll eventually skip past media and go straight to the source.

-- Matt Taibbi, The Press is Now Also the Police

16 posted on 04/21/2023 11:37:03 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Andrew Weissmann: Fascist?


17 posted on 04/21/2023 11:48:02 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They regulate all their other libtard media buddies why not fox


18 posted on 04/21/2023 12:23:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Magnatron

“ the public sees that news reports are indistinguishable from party press releases, they’ll eventually skip past media”

Watched a few minutes of SeeBS news and that’s all Nora did was spew the libtard agenda including telling us how chilling guns deaths were to her personally

That’s what libtards call news

You’re not missing a thing - it’s a freakin sham show


19 posted on 04/21/2023 12:26:10 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: laconic

Weissman destroyed Arthur Andersen with false charges, that were reversed by SCOTUS 9 to 0.

He is a liar.


20 posted on 04/21/2023 2:39:56 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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