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Gidney N Cloyd

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48. The networks each were allowed at the time 6 Owned & Operated stations.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #29)

Thu Aug 11, 2022, 01:30 PM

Aug 2022

Not just affiliates, owned outright.

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As we hear the volume of right-wing calls for violence in "defense" of tfg, I don't believe it is [View all] Atticus Aug 2022 OP

They really should be pre-emptive about this (I imagine they are) elias7 Aug 2022 #1

What kind of legislation? MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #2

Disclaimers when non-news stations pass themselves off as news stations. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #4

That's not true at all MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #5

*Sigh.* I never said they DID say they were entertainment, now did I? Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #6

Sorry, I read your post wrong, MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #7

That's nice for you. No one is suggesting any curtailment of their right to say anything. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #8

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this issue. MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #9

Yes, but just to be clear, if your position is that this would violate the 1A and Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #10

There are exceptions, though, wnylib Aug 2022 #22

Yes, very narrow exceptions. MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #23

The 1A is being used as cover for nationally broadcasted seditious propaganda. hadEnuf Aug 2022 #36

And that's even worse... brooklynite Aug 2022 #11

Thank you. MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #14

Yes, just terrible. Because there is no way we could ever set it up to prevent that. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #16

"We never had anything like, say, a fairness doctrine, that worked reasonably well" brooklynite Aug 2022 #19

LOL. A) It applied to broadcast licenses. Networks had broadcast licenses. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #21

"Networks had broadcast licenses." brooklynite Aug 2022 #29

OK. So you ARE saying that we cannot label the destructive misinformation Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #31

Yes, I'm saying that, and that's a good thing. brooklynite Aug 2022 #32

OK. So we're back to this: I'm not suggesting anything that limits their Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #34

Here's another angle: Fox news pushed Ivermectin hard as a cure for Covid. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #39

The networks each were allowed at the time 6 Owned & Operated stations. Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2022 #48

More likely that Timothy McVeigh types will do things Effete Snob Aug 2022 #3

they will scream and yell and demand... Javaman Aug 2022 #12

+100. nt MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #15

I think that this view is either wnylib Aug 2022 #27

The hard right has never been so close to achieving dominating power in the government as they hadEnuf Aug 2022 #40

Agree. It is a grave mistake if we become complacent about them. wnylib Aug 2022 #45

As we hear LW calls for violence and "shoot to kill..." Hortensis Aug 2022 #13

Insurrectionists must be shot dead. dalton99a Aug 2022 #17

We can start by calling it terrorism IronLionZion Aug 2022 #18

I think we need to get serious about a domestic terrorism law, slightlv Aug 2022 #28

Perhaps a House Un-American Activities Committee? That worked well the last time. brooklynite Aug 2022 #33

Or perhaps a "There are fine people on both sides" committee so we don't offend Atticus Aug 2022 #37

In what way would having a law against domestic terrorism be like HUAC? Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #41

Because it gives the next Republican President the ability to tag opposition as "domestic terrorism" brooklynite Aug 2022 #42

All your arguments seem to be based on the notion that Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #44

I questioning WHY we have to "do something" brooklynite Aug 2022 #47

I thought "We don't have a domestic terrorism crisis---" was just misguided, but then you Atticus Aug 2022 #50

Wow. Again, that's bonkers. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #51

But the January 6th committee is doing alright... DemocraticPatriot Aug 2022 #57

I expect no mobs. malthaussen Aug 2022 #20

So, you'd let them burn the Capitol as long as they evacuated the building first and no Atticus Aug 2022 #38

Oh, come on, I'm not playing false dichotomy hypothetical games. n/t malthaussen Aug 2022 #54

Really? nt Atticus Aug 2022 #55

WLW radio is reporting 71 is closed Aerator Aug 2022 #24

They got lucky on their first attack. Some of their ducks lined up for them cutroot Aug 2022 #25

The venn diagram for "reasonable viewers" Danascot Aug 2022 #26

The war on terror crud Aug 2022 #30

I approve this message Traildogbob Aug 2022 #35

You want the President to announce a crisis that doesn't exist. brooklynite Aug 2022 #43

Did not say Traildogbob Aug 2022 #49

The volume you hear Baggies Aug 2022 #46

Fair enough. It doesn't hurt to have a plan in place ecstatic Aug 2022 #52

We have a new sheriff in town. Deadly force will be authorized pwb Aug 2022 #53

1/6 BidenRocks Aug 2022 #56

I completely agree. BobTheSubgenius Aug 2022 #58