Ehhh. Yes to the Fairness Doctrine… No to Reagan causing FoxNews.
What everyone doesn’t understand, or has long forgotten, is that FoxNews is subscription cable only. The entire FCC framework of equal time and information and television programming “in the public’s interest,” was predicated on broadcast TV controlled and given permission to use the public’s airwaves…
The main concern back in the late 40’s was inappropriate content on TV and of course communist propaganda and the risk that children could be exposed to both. The FCC oversees broadcasters only. Hence Brendan Carr being an absolute bootlicker for Trump and going after them - he’s even threatening to suspend the licenses of the 5 broadcast TV stations that Disney owns over ABC’s news reporting of Trump.
Cable as a subscription only service is beyond that reach since adults BUY access to it. At the point where it is a purchased product, the user - the parents - assume all risk to themsevles or their kids. Ancillary to this, it’s why as a broadcast network FoxTV has NO nightly national news programming: They would have to create TWO separate newsrooms - one following FCC standards, (such as they are…) the other - FoxNews - not… No how, no way is the Murdoch clan going to do that.
Now the cable news is another matter, corporate ownership being all settled with the outright purchase of networks like CNN and others, so now the angle that I’m seeing now is Trump putting youtube creators on his “list,” which is all the government can do to them at this point.
The loophole was that no one imagined cable TV as a thing in the 1940’s.
However, it does NOT have - as a national broadcaster with their own TV series productions - a national evening news, like ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS do. Which is an actual shame as they do have some crack news reporting from the journalists at the local TV stations.
Fox Broadcast Company (it’s original name) was created AFTER Ronald Reagan relaxed the limitations on foreign ownership of TV stations that allowed Murdoch and News Corporation to buy their first 6 channels in the US, (a decision that was called into question a decade later - in the mid 90’s - and the then FCC response was that the law wasn’t clear to begin with.) also, Rupert Murdoch immigrating to the US and being naturalized didn’t hurt.
FoxNews as an “infotainment” propaganda channel was created in 1996 with Roger Ailes and their stated goal was to “explain to working families how politics and policy affects them…” which of course, was really telling Americans to vote Billionaire.
30 years later, this current administration and the d-bag in the White House… is the result.
Ehhh. Yes to the Fairness Doctrine… No to Reagan causing FoxNews.
What everyone doesn’t understand, or has long forgotten, is that FoxNews is subscription cable only. The entire FCC framework of equal time and information and television programming “in the public’s interest,” was predicated on broadcast TV controlled and given permission to use the public’s airwaves…
The main concern back in the late 40’s was inappropriate content on TV and of course communist propaganda and the risk that children could be exposed to both. The FCC oversees broadcasters only. Hence Brendan Carr being an absolute bootlicker for Trump and going after them - he’s even threatening to suspend the licenses of the 5 broadcast TV stations that Disney owns over ABC’s news reporting of Trump.
Cable as a subscription only service is beyond that reach since adults BUY access to it. At the point where it is a purchased product, the user - the parents - assume all risk to themsevles or their kids. Ancillary to this, it’s why as a broadcast network FoxTV has NO nightly national news programming: They would have to create TWO separate newsrooms - one following FCC standards, (such as they are…) the other - FoxNews - not… No how, no way is the Murdoch clan going to do that.
Now the cable news is another matter, corporate ownership being all settled with the outright purchase of networks like CNN and others, so now the angle that I’m seeing now is Trump putting youtube creators on his “list,” which is all the government can do to them at this point.
The loophole was that no one imagined cable TV as a thing in the 1940’s.
For was a pubic OTA broadcast in the 90s
Still is.
However, it does NOT have - as a national broadcaster with their own TV series productions - a national evening news, like ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS do. Which is an actual shame as they do have some crack news reporting from the journalists at the local TV stations.
Fox Broadcast Company (it’s original name) was created AFTER Ronald Reagan relaxed the limitations on foreign ownership of TV stations that allowed Murdoch and News Corporation to buy their first 6 channels in the US, (a decision that was called into question a decade later - in the mid 90’s - and the then FCC response was that the law wasn’t clear to begin with.) also, Rupert Murdoch immigrating to the US and being naturalized didn’t hurt.
FoxNews as an “infotainment” propaganda channel was created in 1996 with Roger Ailes and their stated goal was to “explain to working families how politics and policy affects them…” which of course, was really telling Americans to vote Billionaire.
30 years later, this current administration and the d-bag in the White House… is the result.
Fuck.