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SmartVoter22

(639 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 05:49 AM Nov 2020

FoxNews needs more advertiser boycotts

After this election, more boycotts are needed to stop FoxNews and it's parent NewsCorp.
Boycott more advertisers, complain to cable TV operators over the misinformation they have broadcast.
Demand change to NewsCorp stockholders. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.

We can force NewsCorp, to change and start validating news as news and force them to declare opinions as opinions.
This is where they muddied reality from fiction. Cable TV is subscription entertainment service only, by legal definition. It is not news, like a newspaper or over-the-air news; ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS which by law, are required to have two credible expert source validations to broadcast a factual claim.

We did it before and we can do it again. Run that company into the ground and make it less profitable.
Make the stock worthless, make the corporate board a target of online shame and portray it's on-air personalities as Un-American.
Go after the stockholders; the institutional ones, the major owners who can end the propaganda priority.

Use the same tactics they use, create the false narrative to it's sharholders and investors.
Force NewsCorp into reorganization through the stockholders.

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FoxNews needs more advertiser boycotts (Original Post) SmartVoter22 Nov 2020 OP
Yes, Rupert Murdoch needs to be hit in his bank account. Brother Mythos Nov 2020 #1
Australia is working on doing that. nt Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #2
I don't think there is any law about having Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #3
Communications Act of 1934 & 1996 SmartVoter22 Nov 2020 #4
I worked for a newspaper. Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #5
Agree PirateRo Nov 2020 #6

Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)
3. I don't think there is any law about having
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 06:40 AM
Nov 2020

to have two credible sources. It’s good journalism but the only FCC law is they can’t “intentionally slant the news.” Not sure how Fox has gotten away with their shit for so long.

SmartVoter22

(639 posts)
4. Communications Act of 1934 & 1996
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 07:58 AM
Nov 2020

Go read them. There are laws on what can be published as declarative statements of fact.

I'm not going to educated you, as you are guessing here, you go ahead and prove me wrong.
or go ask a reporter from a printed newspaper, a TV reporter from a non-cable local TV station and ask about validation.

Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)
5. I worked for a newspaper.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:07 AM
Nov 2020

I did look and I’m not finding anything like what you’ve stated.
“The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years. The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other.”
The one on 1934 established the FCC.

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