George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Apr 19, 2023

Hitting Fox in the pocketbook doesn't work if they earn more from their lies thru increased cable demand fees than they pay out to the companies they've smeared.

The market isn't going to self-correct here. We need to find a way to actually stop the lies.

Show threadDan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈
Bringing back the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Fairness Doctrine (abolished by Reagan's FCC in 1987), and applying it to Cable and Broadcast, would help so much with our Fox problem. Growing up, American news media was different, and opinion shows were balanced between left and right.
The Supreme Court upheld the Fairness Doctrine in 1969, but Reagan's FCC repealed it and then we got Rush Limbuagh, starting the decline to what we see today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
FCC fairness doctrine - Wikipedia

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Show threadHashApr 19, 2023
@danwentzel
WHY WE NEVER WILL BE DEMOCRACY :
1 CITIZENS UNITED
2 FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
3 ELECTORAL COLLEGE
4 ZOMBIES IN SENATE
Show threadSteven Capsuto - Alt. ChannelsApr 19, 2023
@danwentzel Does the FCC even have the authority to regulate content anywhere other than the (decreasingly relevant) "public airwaves"?
Show threadDan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈Apr 19, 2023
@StevenCapsuto I believe Congress could pass a law expanding the FCC's authority to regulate content to include cable, but there would no doubt be a fierce court battle over it.
Show threadDodgy TheoriesApr 19, 2023

@danwentzel

The fairness doctrine could be expanded to include any entity with a reach of more than say 100,000 people..... That would incorporate all social media influencers. The social media companies could keep their common carrier status....The influencers themselves would be liable.

Show threadsqncsApr 19, 2023
@danwentzel no, this is a horrible idea and about as likely to pass as restructuring our branches of government to be more egalitarian, which would be significantly more impact full and effective. Fox News would be significantly different if it couldn't focus on the minority part of minority rule and expect favorable electoral outcomes.