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Beerman

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Nope. It's badness


Ministries of Truth, in any form, are a horrible, awful, no good, very bad idea. That includes things like various forms of the Fairness Doctrine.

I would be in favor of making more obvious required distinctions between things claiming to be hard news and things that are merely opinions, but that only accomplishes so much. FNC could replace the chyron during Hannity's show with an endless loop of "THIS IS AN OPINION SHOW THAT DOES NOT EVEN TRY TO BE FAIR AND BALANCED" and it wouldn't stop legions of the easily led from using it as their primary source of "news". The same applies to MSNBC and Maddow.

There is no fix for stupid, and people will always naturally congregate to things they find more favorable. Seeking out multiple news sources specifically to get differing sides of issues and examining those different reports objectively and critically requires a level of effort and ability that a vanishingly small percentage of humanity is capable of. On this very board there are numerous examples of posters who are clearly very intelligent and well-educated individuals who are entirely uninterested in paying any mind to tings they disagree with. And that's people who should and DO know better!

(In response to this post by HokieDan95)

Posted: 01/14/2021 at 10:25AM



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Current Thread:
  Bring back the Fairness Doctrine! ** -- JSHoo 01/14/2021 10:59AM
  I think this may be helpful to you -- NJHoo 01/14/2021 10:27AM
  Nope. It's badness -- Beerman 01/14/2021 10:25AM
  The fairness doctrine existed from 1949 to 1987 -- TomGlansAski 01/14/2021 10:38AM
  How very Republican of you! -- Beerman 01/14/2021 11:00AM
  Weeeeee, here we goooooo! ** -- Lupos 01/14/2021 10:13AM
  But it clearly is for some ** -- Hoo TV 01/14/2021 10:50AM
  Apparently you and aoc are intellectual equals ** -- HokieDan95 01/14/2021 10:08AM
  Clearly you aren't. ** -- Chuck Taylor 01/14/2021 10:12AM
  Thankfully ** -- HokieDan95 01/14/2021 10:24AM
  Blissfully. ** -- Chuck Taylor 01/14/2021 10:34AM
  Are you in favor of seditious speech? ** -- HoosQ 01/14/2021 10:12AM
  Couldn't agree with her more on this -- wahoo138 01/14/2021 09:50AM

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