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12. But but but I am told by reliable sources that FOX is protected by the 1st Amendment in all their...
Wed Apr 6, 2022, 05:40 PM
Apr 2022

Last edited Thu Apr 7, 2022, 12:29 AM - Edit history (1)

…lies and all their propaganda. That no matter what’s going on — like, for instance, an ongoing coup attempt against the US government — they can continue to twist their viewers’ minds with outright lies. Forever.

I have never read a sensible response to my queries about how we make them stop. The responses all seem to come down to the marketplace: boycott sponsors, buy the station and shut it down, just don’t watch. Two of those are ineffective and the other is a pipe dream. The other notion involves suing them, individually or collectively — sure, an operation that has more money than God to devote to its legal defense,

Even in a robust democracy — which we are not — it would be stupid to ignore the impact of a multibillion dollar enterprise like FOX operating 24/7 in the country.

But we did ignore FOX and Murdoch and their ilk in that regard, and you may have noticed we are no longer a robust democracy.

ETA: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216569684
Obama: "I underestimated" disinformation's threat to democracies

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