. . .to intervene in the 24/7 access of Faux News on military bases. It’s the first question I would ask the members of his cabinet and whoever advised him.

But yeah, it's difficult to fathom even with that. Not so much belief in freedom of speech as the mindlessness of the vast number of Faux News viewers who eat that stuff up.

then it’s hard to accept that there isn’t a higher responsibility to insist on some measure of exposure to other sources.

Probably why our military appears to have no problem with any of this.

If true, it’s all the more bewildering that CiC Biden looked the other way. Surely he had intelligence experts who understood and could have explained the impact of lies and propaganda on the troops. I wonder if we’ll ever know.

I monitor RWmedia - I watch, so you don't have to. I fact check RW media (particularly fauxnews and notnewsmax) on the one social media site I use.

People need to be deprogrammed from the propaganda, disinformation, and brain washing.

P.S. Fox is not news - they said so in a lawsuit. They asserted they are entertainment. That statement should be on a chiron/banner across the tv screen.

Great Substack piece. Thanks for sharing, erronis.

If they are not news.
Once more thing to do differently when we are back in power.

Why is that so hard? Free speech is fine, but I’m not allowed to hang a sign up claiming to be a Doctor, and perform surgery out of my home.

But, as others have said, it’s the viewers who allow themselves to be lied to, again and again, but still tune in every day for the “daily hate” that are the real problem.

False advertising at the very least.

Can't the licensing from the FCC have parameters? Well not now...of course...but in the future.

The radio spectrum is considered a limited public resource, and so is tightly controlled. Cable TV arrives through a contract between the cable company & its subscribers. As long as they don't violate the terms of their contract, they're pretty much OK.

But, yes, maybe the FTC (Federal TRADE Commission) could look into that false advertising thing ... when it's controlled by an administration that cares about laws ...

When one is watching a program where pundits are telling you what you want to hear or that which affirms one’s already formed world view, then one is being entertained.

And Fox should be shut down and thrown out of the country.
Lies are not news. Lies are not free thought. Lies are not free expression.
It's like having a billionaire-funded, 24/7 Nazi station on every cable system. Yeah, that would be a mess, too.

... and the story of how that happened is the story of Limbaugh and Fox, with their clear intent of ending up with the bigger half. We now live in a country where millions of people have had their critical thinking dulled by reactionary (not "conservative" ) propaganda, and now decide what to believe or disbelieve depending strictly on who says it. There is no easy solution — our ONLY recourse is to defeat them at the polls.

Fox News was created to serve ONE purpose: To advance the conservative Republican agenda, and ]ONLY the conservative Republican agenda.*

Quotes I saved:

in fact that is affirmation of their purpose.

They are a terrorist organization.

I can't comprehend why the republicants would want to recreate a NAZI (Not-See) state all over again in the United States of America.
NAZI Germany practically went bankrupt trying to build Hitler's Master Race and Hitler's War Machine.
It aided in their defeat.

That's just my guess because I can't pretend to (or want to) get inside those places.

Mass media monopolies owned by right-wing billionaires are a clear and present danger to democracy.

Their only goal is to make a profit for their owners. Changing their reporting would cost them viewers and decrease revenues.

Their viewers want more of what they have been fed in the past from the same source. In the past they tied themselves to Trump and now they are stuck promoting every insanity he vomits.

The Fairness Doctrine was for broadcast stations using public airways, it wouldn't have applied to cable, satellite or the internet, the FCC has zero content authority over these venues, there is no FCC license to operate on those venues.