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Related: About this forumSanders on Combating Corporate Media Dems Should Be ‘Funding the Equivalent of Fox’
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Sanders on Combating Corporate Media Dems Should Be ‘Funding the Equivalent of Fox’ (Original Post)
Bernie93
May 2016
OP
And he is right. We should be buying up small stations all over the country and be
silvershadow
May 2016
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MattP
(3,304 posts)1. So have a fake news channel for the left
No thanks
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)2. And he is right. We should be buying up small stations all over the country and be
paying to produce programming, regardless of profit or loss. Public service. Daily programming to counter the corporate narrative.
StarTrombone
(188 posts)4. So the question is
Why aren't you
Or are you waiting for wealthy "I've got mine" mostly brain-dead liberal media elite script readers to do it.
Because it isn't going to happen
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)5. You assume I am not. nt
StarTrombone
(188 posts)6. My bad, I assumed wrong
How many stations are in your network and is there 1 in Phoenix I can hear
Please post the web address
Maybe I can listen online
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)7. In due time, my friend. In due time. nt
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)3. The equivalent of Faux "News"? Why would we want to stoop to their level
of a propaganda "news" site?
BootinUp
(47,138 posts)10. I assume he means without the lies. Maybe more like what Al Gore
had in mind.
dsc
(52,155 posts)8. wasn't this considered a bad thing when Brock bought a media outlet a few months ago?
to be fair I agree with Sanders on this but I also thought Brock had done the right thing too.
BootinUp
(47,138 posts)9. It was an interesting interview and an interesting idea K&R
Tarc
(10,476 posts)11. I'd rather not replicate the USSR and Pravda, thanks
This idea is dead on arrival. The media needs to be independent of politics.