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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Yes - that's called advertising. And just like advertising, there are nuggets of truth there, just spun in a way to make them appear to mean something different than they really do.
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Where's the nugget of truth in "fair and balanced"?
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Seriously, this is an old concept. It's called "yellow journalism". There's no contract between the press and the public, so there's nothing that can be done other than walking away. Rupert Murdoch is the modern day Hearst, only without the fantastic movie about his mistress's nether regions.
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When the public tunes in, they become consumers. The problem with "news" is that it isn't narcotics, food, health products, medical care, or insurance. It's stuff people say about stuff.
There's the First Amendment, yes. Fox News as the right to lie I guess. I just find it an odd predicament that they can lie about things but other types of companies can't.
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