Please call your rep. and sens. and tell them that we need a Fairness Doctrine for the 21st century. As I understand it, cable TV was exempt under THE ONE THAT REAGAN KILLED c. 1988 (because it didn't use public airwaves), but that can no longer be the dividing line. News is still a public serviec (well, actual news is). If Fox et al. wa…
Please call your rep. and sens. and tell them that we need a Fairness Doctrine for the 21st century. As I understand it, cable TV was exempt under THE ONE THAT REAGAN KILLED c. 1988 (because it didn't use public airwaves), but that can no longer be the dividing line. News is still a public serviec (well, actual news is). If Fox et al. want to spew lies, then there needs to be some remedy, such as a contemporaneous fact-checking crawl at the bottom of the screen.
I understand that this bumps against our right to free speech, but anything that bills itself as news has to be held to account; I trust the excellent minds of our trained lawyers in our current Congress -- among them Raskin, Warren, Porter, and Whitehouse -- to figure this out.
AI is going to make Murdoch look like a pussy. It is now showing up all over and everything about it is false bullshit. We don't need any more bullshit.
Please call your rep. and sens. and tell them that we need a Fairness Doctrine for the 21st century. As I understand it, cable TV was exempt under THE ONE THAT REAGAN KILLED c. 1988 (because it didn't use public airwaves), but that can no longer be the dividing line. News is still a public serviec (well, actual news is). If Fox et al. want to spew lies, then there needs to be some remedy, such as a contemporaneous fact-checking crawl at the bottom of the screen.
I understand that this bumps against our right to free speech, but anything that bills itself as news has to be held to account; I trust the excellent minds of our trained lawyers in our current Congress -- among them Raskin, Warren, Porter, and Whitehouse -- to figure this out.
AI is going to make Murdoch look like a pussy. It is now showing up all over and everything about it is false bullshit. We don't need any more bullshit.
Agree.