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We now live in a world in which the right-wing media sets the national agenda. The mainstream media follows. (newrepublic.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Going way back in time, we had only a mainstream media—the Times and the Post and the Associated Press and the major networks. In the 1970s, after the famous Powell Memo, wealthy conservatives began funding their own media. For most of the last 50 years, even as the right-wing media grew, it remained clear that the mainstream media set the agenda—that is, it determined what we all talked about every day.

But recently, that flipped. This transformation has been in process for several years, but I date it to January 6 for two reasons. First, before that, the right-wing media didn’t have all-consuming power when it came to crunch time. They could not, for example, elect Donald Trump. There was still enough of a shred of news-gathering honesty at Fox News that it called Arizona for Joe Biden. Second, January 6 was a moment of choosing for the American right. Conservative politicians and the right-wing media could have woken up on January 7 and decided that enough was enough and they were captaining their MAGA-ized spaceship back down to planet Earth.

But we’ve seen how both of those matters sorted themselves out. Fox forced out the two people who made that Arizona call. . . . And on the second matter, with a few notable exceptions, virtually the whole party now embraces the January 6 “uprising” (or is too cowardly to say otherwise).

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'll pitch that this is just the natural result of repealing the fairness doctrine by Reagan in 1985.

The fairness doctrine started out in 1949 as a policy to avoid having the top broadcaster's of the time (NBC, ABC, and CBS) create a biased public agenda by leveraging their audience monopoly. They were required to provide multiple contrasting view points on issues of public importance.

When Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine, the influence on media outlets to pitch left or right leaning view points only, took off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Couldn't we just jam am radio bands? Or is it too late?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There's a certain irony behind the source info being from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Soooooo, let's get that back? Maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It only applied to broadcast media. We would have better luck just waiting for the dinosaurs that watch local news and listen to am radio to die.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

"we're $orry it$ too hard"