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We live in the wild west era of social media where opinion without proof, alternative facts and populist politics without solutions have developed to be the norm.
It will prove to be a wrong path.
We live in the wild west era of social media where opinion without proof, alternative facts and populist politics without solutions have developed to be the norm.
It will prove to be a wrong path.
John Quiggin@xs4me2 @conradhackett @histodons @academicchatter @economics @phdstudents old media went down this path decades ago. Fox News
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Admittedly media bias has a long history but the present modern media technology makes it increasingly spiraling out of control. In 1987 in US, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine and that was a big influence. Fox is not news, it is Rupert Murdoch´s biased right wing polarized propaganda.toy.
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Except the Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast licenses, not cable or satellite where Fox lives. It may have slowed down the Rush Limbaughs of the airwaves, but had the doctrine been renewed, it's likely that those pundits would have gone for the friendlier shores of cable.