Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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He recently gave the former prime minister of japan a "key to the white house" after inviting the guy to maralago. He thinks he's still the ******* president.
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Either they think it's fine to commit crimes because getting their own is all that matters, or they don't actually care and they're just trying to piss you off by arguing. Or both. Either way, it's a waste of time to try to use logical arguments when no actual logic went into their side in the first place.
I'm glad Joe said it, but he's asking for the impossible. The media is desperate to have Trump back in office. Cable news ratings are down across the board, fewer people are doomscrolling and clicking on newspaper's websites, nobody wants to publish books about a competent administration that no one would read, and political comedians have only had the "Biden's old, lol!" joke for the last three+ years.
Michelle Wolf had the media's number when she hosted the 2018 WHCD:
Michelle Wolf had the media's number when she hosted the 2018 WHCD:
Yup, The quest for profit is killing journalism. Granted, it's always been a problem but with the way the economy works now vs 50 years ago has severely exacerbated the issue. 24 hour news cycle, giant conglomerates owning all the major news outlets(both national and local), the killing of the fairness doctrine, black-box algorithm based social media feeds..... It's just suck a mess and I don't know if anyone knows exactly how to fix it.
You tear it down, then restart. Restore the fairness mandate, then legislate that all news information organizations MUST BE not for profit. This way they entirely support themselves and are incentivized to both tell the ******* the truth, but also to grow their own infrastructure since not for profits are required to invest in themselves or invest in charities.
I maintain that there is not a single issue in our politics (not a SINGLE one) that the news media isn't actively making worse.
Tear it down. Wait a while and see if we even want to restart it.
Tear it down. Wait a while and see if we even want to restart it.
Drama and fear sell. That's all it is any more.
Didn't the Fairness Doctrine require giving equal time to both sides of the political aisle? Wouldn't that just turn horse-race reporting and both-sides-ism from something they do because it makes money to something they're actually required to do?
I think the ban on for-profit news media would be enough, and already beyond what any other country in the history of the world has attempted. Let that play out and then we'll see if we need to get even stricter from there.
I think the ban on for-profit news media would be enough, and already beyond what any other country in the history of the world has attempted. Let that play out and then we'll see if we need to get even stricter from there.
Fairness doctrine did not require equal time, but did require that organizations give time to people wishing to issue rebuttals to the narrative the broadcaster was sending out. The removal of the fairness doctrine is what led to Fox News and its nuttier kin. Reinstating it would not a magic bullet and it won't eliminate the issues associated with for-profit news organizations and it definitely won't help the current social media side of the equation, but it would be a moderating step. If Fox, Newsmax and OAN were forced to air opposing views on major issues, it would help limit the echo-chamber effect we are currently in. Heck if it were still in effect, I really don't think Trump would have won in 2016(he may have not even ended up as the republican candidate).
I hear tell that if you take the profit motive out of medicine, no one will want to be doctors anymore. Of course, that ignores all the doctors in countries with universal healthcare, but you try telling that to these rednecks.
Orange Git fined $9000 for breaking the gag order.
And apparently they're doing another "show cause" trial on thursday morning. Unless thursday comes with the open and direct threat of jail time: this is a nothing burger.
Well, he said he'd create jobs, so I guess keeping the appeals court busy counts.
Look, much as I'd love to see the Orange Shitgibbon behind bars, I get what the judge is doing and why. The very idea of incarcerating Trump is a logistical nightmare. It will cost the area millions, even if only for a day or two. There's staffing, extra security, you'll have to move the other inmates, a whole host of logistics that I can't even get into.