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Bluenorthwest

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17. Lots of hateful crap on religious TV, don't care for that but I do support the First Amendment

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 09:13 AM

Mar 2015

This is utter bullshit you are posting. Chilling, fascistic bullshit.
It's also such a huge waste of time. People on 'our side' seem fixated on FoxNews and I think that serves FoxNews. They have a very small, niche audience with an aged and narrow demographic. If you combine the entire audience of all cable commentary programming or news, Fox, CNN and MSNBC the total viewers still don't add up to the viewership for any one of the three broadcast networks.
318 Million Americans. In their best hours around 3 million of the 318 million watch Fox. Of those 3 million, 2.5 are either too young to vote or too old to persuade.
The best sauce and swiftest cure for FoxNews is mockery.
"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."- Mel Brooks

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Fox News is not a news channel - it is a propaganda channel that should be regulated. [View all] xocet Mar 2015 OP

Two words ffr Mar 2015 #1

cable providers should move the Fox channel from the news category to the procon Mar 2015 #16

The sooner they get stripped of News from fox the better it will be for everyone. Hutzpa Mar 2015 #2

Is someone regulating FOXNews? JaneyVee Mar 2015 #3

Yes, you are correct. Murdoch is the propaganda arm of the Global Corporate Power brokers. News is sabrina 1 Mar 2015 #4

YES. They need to be classified differently. calimary Mar 2015 #43

Well, that would require a regulatory body being able to regulate Scootaloo Mar 2015 #5

This is the kind of nonsense that anything with the word Democrat in its name should be ashamed of. CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #6

That is valid only up to a point DFW Mar 2015 #9

No, Fox News didn't go to court to defend their right to lie SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #12

Internet Myth: Fox did not defend the right to call themselves News. onenote Mar 2015 #25

X+10 840high Mar 2015 #34

No. NYC Liberal Mar 2015 #7

Not regulated, just not a news channel. Rex Mar 2015 #8

Most MSM channels fit the description of propaganda channels: they call it "the narrative" Wella Mar 2015 #10

No. Should we also regulate EWTN (the Catholic Cable channel) and the 700 Club? progressoid Mar 2015 #11

Cringingly embarrassing, anti-First Amendment nonsense. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #13

There is something that should be opposed JonLP24 Mar 2015 #44

The biggest problem is no one can define exactly what is "news." Archae Mar 2015 #14

There's no way to regulate it treestar Mar 2015 #15

Fairness Doctrine. Enforce divestiture. Break up media monoliths. Orsino Mar 2015 #19

The Fairness a Doctrine only applied to broadcast channels not cable. n/t tammywammy Mar 2015 #20

Since a new one would have to be created anyway, why would we omit cable? n/t Orsino Mar 2015 #21

You'd want to expand the FCC's powers? tammywammy Mar 2015 #23

Fuck, yeah. Orsino Mar 2015 #24

Technically the media has no hold on us treestar Mar 2015 #31

I think you've just agreed that media do have an enormous hold on us. n/t Orsino Mar 2015 #32

Well, hell then. Let's include newspapers and the Internet while we're at it. onenote Mar 2015 #26

Yes. When I say to bust up media monoliths, I mean all of them. Orsino Mar 2015 #27

You seem to be contradicting yourself. progressoid Mar 2015 #30

No contradiction at all. Orsino Mar 2015 #33

I was referring to your call to impose the Fairness Doctrine on cable onenote Mar 2015 #38

DU is a customer, not an ISP, and certainly not a media monolith. Orsino Mar 2015 #39

So you are saying cable operators and ISPs should be required to transmit varying points of view onenote Mar 2015 #40

That's a fair sacrifice. Orsino Mar 2015 #42

Lots of hateful crap on religious TV, don't care for that but I do support the First Amendment Bluenorthwest Mar 2015 #17

Agreed. What's that old saying? WillowTree Mar 2015 #29

How long before people learn the difference between over the air (TV/radio) and Cable that CK_John Mar 2015 #18

Two Words: First Amendment onenote Mar 2015 #22

Not this shit again. nt Codeine Mar 2015 #28

The First Amendment is either the law of the land or it is not. MineralMan Mar 2015 #35

The First Amendment says we can't do that. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #36

Alex, I'll take "Things that make DU look stupid" for $500 Throd Mar 2015 #37

Propaganda is bad for you JonLP24 Mar 2015 #41

This authoritarian drive to silence opponents with government power is beyond scary. tritsofme Mar 2015 #45

I'm appalled by how many can't see how this might be used against us at a future date. Throd Mar 2015 #46