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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI blame FOX
And their second amendment solutions.
That channel spews hate 24/7 it purposely works at riling it's base up and blaming the others. It's time to lay the blame were it belongs.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)Every day, in a thousand little ways, they are weakening America with their fear and conspiracy-mongering. This is the great existential problem that the country has to deal with, even after the GOP is driven out of power - how to break the spell that they have put their viewers under for the past 30+ years.
byronius
(7,401 posts)May yet kill us all.
Funny thing; no one who watches Fox knows what Citizens United is.
And that is a fact.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)how did people get to be so damned STUPID
diva77
(7,659 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Helped to continue, but this is much older than Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. That they have gotten very good at spewing hate is only because theres an audience that receives it willingly and does not seem to be curious enough to look beyond that which they are served up in the 24/7 breathless news cycle .
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial heckling issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that wasin the Commission's viewhonest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.
The Fairness Doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented. The demise of this FCC rule has been considered by some to be a contributing factor for the rising level of party polarization in the United States.
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of viewpoints. In 1969 the United States Supreme Court upheld the FCC's general right to enforce the Fairness Doctrine where channels were limited. But the courts did not rule that the FCC was obliged to do so. The courts reasoned that the scarcity of the broadcast spectrum, which limited the opportunity for access to the airwaves, created a need for the Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine is not the same as the equal-time rule. The Fairness Doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the equal-time rule deals only with political candidates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
I also 90% agree with this: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/612934