F4FEver wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:15 am
DJD100 wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 12:36 am
highdesert wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:12 am
Yes, the media whether they've declared for one side or not, their reporting shows how they are aligned. Gone are the days when reporters put their opinions aside and just reported the facts, it's now an infotainment world and opinions are news.
^^^^^THIS!^^^^^
The "Media" (24 hour cable newz, social media etc...), stokes division and makes a profit doing it, which will destroy the US from within if not checked going forward.
Simple really, huge fines for broadcasting provable BS, and I mean "HUGE" fines, bankruptcy causing sized fines.
Once you hit the profit motive in the mouth, maybe they'd gain some responsibility for what they broadcast...
Thing called First Amendment, the above will never happen...people have been broadcasting lies for as long as there have been people there to listen. Unfortunately, lying isn't against the law, when 'broadcasted'.
It should be via the available mechanisms, i.e. the courts.
There should be broadcast accountability courts, where whackos like TFG/Carlson and Feax Newz, should be financially punished for something IF they continue to broadcast total untruths repeatedly, and especially after their BS has been proven wrong in courts of law and they haven't recanted etc. Note that the same laws should apply to all media.
Freedom of Speech is one thing, freedom to lie and stoke sedition/division is something else entirely, and look at the bright side, a large percentage of politicians would immediately be liable LOL!
The above would be a natural filter etc, and now more then ever we need a filter on mass broadcasting, or the whole ship is going down (due to the fact that a large percentage of US citizens are remarkably uneducated/stupid!).
Sure, it's a slippery slope which would need to be managed, but the problem now is the internet gives every whacko global reach where before they'd only have a local reach unless the networks or papers picked them up, and the vintage "journalists" typically attempted to fact check their presentations as much as possible, and quickly recanted when they got something wrong. In addition, the Clinton/Bush II led consolidation of the nation's media has left the messaging to a wealthy few with predictable results.
Heck, you're right though, ain't going to happen, so...
...the US is toast?