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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

At what point do these kind of lies, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CURTAIL HIS FURTHER EMPLOYMENT begin to count as illegal?

When does it meet the New York Times v. Sullivan requirement for "actual malice"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Iirc, either the Colbert report or John Oliver did a story on Sinclair owned stations and how anchors were forced to read prepared stories that were obviously right leaning propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was definitely a segment on Last Week Tonight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

and the echo of each news person as a new row of them was added to the chorus started to hurt my ears. was a great segment

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I noticed an uptick in anti Biden articles across my feeds today. I thought maybe there was an event, but just before I clicked a link, I saw it was Fox News and noped the fuck out. Now I've at least got confirmation it's been a targeted attack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The last two weeks or so it's been like a switched was flipped on the algorithms. Tiktok and X are now pushing right-wing stuff super hard.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I especially love how these stations, along with Fox will make these assertions of how, “lights are on but no one’s home”, then follow it immediately with how he’s the mastermind behind political prosecutions, controlling the DoJ and executing a coordinated anti-republican regime.

Schrödinger’s Biden

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I’m not voting Trump, but I wish there was a cap of 65 to run for office.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is one of the worst bills ever signed into law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thanks, Clinton

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Any time (so, all the time) conservatives talk about the dangers of misinformation from left wing media, this clip should be played.

Haven't even clicked the link yet, I know what clip it is...

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives keep talking about media manipulation from the left while this kind of thing goes on.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's projection. It's always projection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project

[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If only we enforced anti-trust laws...

Back in the day wed split up monopolies with those laws.

DOJ went after Sinclair like 5 years ago, but it was about price fixing with other stations because they were colluding to raise ad prices for billion dollar corporations.

And they just had to pay a settlement.

It's sucks the government acts to defend corporations but not people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The failure of the western political class these past 30 years can be summed up as this:

If it makes a lot of money, how can it be a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Until 1997 there were fairly strict limits over who could own what broadcast stations in given markets. Then the neoliberal bug bit everyone's ass in Congress and they passed a bipartisan bill that would let people own as many radio stations as they wanted, and way more TV stations than they should.

Suddenly every radio station became the same, and now most local news is owned by one batshit corporation.

Maybe trusting companies is a bad fucking idea.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

It's sucks the government acts to defend corporations but not people.

But corporations are people too! /s