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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. And when lying just will not do for " news " make stuff up about protesters chanting death threats...
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 12:38 PM
Dec 2014

Truly, why the fuck are these monsters allows to breath their venom into the public air waves?

Mendacious lies and hate and out right manufactured and purposeful deception for political purposes, or for incitement of violence, all free speech protected?

eppur_se_muova

(36,271 posts)
6. Well, technically, they don't have direct access to the public air waves ...
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:08 PM
Dec 2014

cable-only operations aren't subject to the same FCC oversight as broadcasters. But what FAUX shows on cable gets quoted, excerpted, and commented on by broadcasters who do use the public airwaves, usually without the slightest effort to fact-check it first. Oh, and of course, FAUX has its local affiliates who do broadcast over the public airwaves, and freely excerpt from News Corpse shows -- so the lies end up getting broadcast anyway.

I'd be interested to know -- is the FAUX affiliate in Baltimore cable-only ? Because if they broadcast their fabricated story about protestor's chants over the public airwaves, they most certainly can be held to legal account for that.

Calling Senator Mikulski ...

ffr

(22,671 posts)
3. The less I watch TV, the less I feel the need to waste my time watching TV
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 12:47 PM
Dec 2014

Same goes for radio. I like it for background music when I work, but when I'm in a vehicle I prefer talking to the person(s) I am with.

Gossip channels like ET & Fox News have no intrinsic value. They're there to help someone who marvels at others to pass time, to waste their life away before they die.

Waste
of
Time.

ffr

(22,671 posts)
15. Actually more to do with all the broadcast false equivalencies.
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 12:51 PM
Dec 2014

I'm over it and moving on. We know what we know and I'm not going to devote any of my time trying to convince FOXBOTS. Hearing people argue on TV doesn't settle anything, except to fatten the cats selling advertising between segments. Television needs a reboot, because it's too much about promoting discourse or fake reality. The few channels remaining with educational and insightful programming are too few to justify my voting (with $$$) towards it all.

Granted, I grew up in a period where the channels you were able to bring into your home came via antennas. So I'm able to step back and see the transformation of the medium over time. I'm done with it.

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kimbutgar

(21,164 posts)
5. Not a good way to start off at DU with a comment praising Fox
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 01:29 PM
Dec 2014

Sadly sgtdiaz you have been neuro linguistically programmed by fox and you no longer have the intellectual capacity to distinguish fact from fox fiction and lies. If you served over in the wars in the middle east fighting for oil company profits you got fed a steady dose of Fox bullshit and your brain was fried. Turn off fox, turn on your local news or read a book by Thom Hartmann. You will be a happier person by stewing in the cesspool of hate over at Fox.

I predict your days here at DU will be limited. Go back to the cesspool of duscussionist if you can't free your brain of fox lies and propaganda.

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
7. strange that MIRT bans FOXheads but not all the RT / Putin apologists
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:12 PM
Dec 2014

I wonder WTF the DU admin is thinking

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
9. lol another hit and run from you
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:05 PM
Dec 2014

so you want FOX neocons to have "free speech" and take over a progressive website, the way you RW Putin defender are trying to do?

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
12. so "free speech" is RW FOX heads and RW Putin defenders taking over DU, right?
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:14 PM
Dec 2014

just effin come out with it already

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
14. Well, yeah.
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 06:15 PM
Dec 2014

But......



- Whaddaya want? Clear and incisive news, or blondes and boobage.

You decide.

K&R

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