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In reply to the discussion: We are witnessing a masterpiece of Russian tradecraft. [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)political talk radio should not be considered part of the free speech spectrum, like all those others are, unless they're calling for violence, etc.
RW radio makes fact-based discussions of any major issue impossible. whenever progress is threatened, such as media demonopolization, the think tanks yawn, design a PR campaign with as much lying and distortion as they want, and pump it out 1500 radio stations for as long as needed. when millions peacefully protest for justice and police reform 1500 radio stations yell to 50M /week that we destroyed whole cities and want to defund all police. the anti attack iraq protests should have gone to the radio stations that were lying into that war.
and if we want real progress on any issue and progress with biden we have to force the ad industry to democratize that monopoly. it's a very easy target for a massive boycott now.