Ah, mental masturbation. Essentially, we were living in a bubble; a horrible irony considering we were united against Bush.
What we need is to seek out the sources of misinformation and stop them with every last breath we have in us. When someone comes on and suggests there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, we need to be able to call them out instantly on their BS and we need to do it in front of the very people who just took the misinformation in. The funny thing is, this kind of thing used to be controlled and by something that's been discussed at length on TFP: the fairness doctrine.
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Originally Posted by U.S. Supreme Court, upholding the constitutionality of the Fairness Doctrine in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 1969.
license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the Government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.
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Ladies and gents, Halx is absolutely right, and the solution to his challenge is the reintroduction and constitutionally backable fairness doctrine.
Before we try to take corporations out of news, before we try to lynch Bill Orly, wqe need the fairness doctrine. Then we can lynch Bill.