• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Thats assuming the media (especially the broadcast media…) reports on what he did truthfully and with the full details.

    Which they rarely, if ever, do.

    because they have a vested financial and ratings based interest in the chaos he creates, because it drives ratings and enriches them.

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      2 months ago

      This… the media is made up of businesses with shareholders. They do and say what is best for those shareholders. Not what is best for us, or the country, or the planet, or anything else. Expecting them to do otherwise in the system they exist in is delusional.

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        2 months ago

        and you can blame the elimination of the fairness doctrine for the bulk of that.

        Because, like everything, it sucks because the Republicans fucked it up so they could manipulate it to their advantage.

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          2 months ago

          Sadly, the fairness doctrine doesn’t seem like it was particularly constitutional. I suppose you could argue that a corporation has no right to free speech. Getting into that debate would be complicated. But that seems like the only way to fix this.