This first allowed for rush limbaugh (rest in piss) on radio, which led to fox news, led to Bush jr, led to Palin, led to tea party, led to citizens united, led to trump, led to Jan 6, led to project 2025, led to ufc pedophile party on the front lawn of the half demolished white house and the reflecting pool filled with brawndo.
Yeah, also check out the rush limbaugh behind the bastards podcast episode
Agreed. Love Robert Evens.
Also, a podcast called, “The Master Plan”, Slow Burn’s Fox News season and a great documentary called, “Slaying the Dragon” if you have not seen.
Every decent person should be sat down and made to consume these.
I agree with you on this!
Always Remember: you don’t hate Ronald Reagan enough
Hate perturbs the mind; poisons it. What you focus on becomes what you grow to become. That’s why I look at feet so much, so I can be the princess I always wish I was!
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sidespolitical partiesAlso springs to mind, Clinton’s acceleration of Nixon’s corporate media consolidation.
Press F for fuck this guy.
This is 'Murica in a nutshell though
Reagan was voted in as president because the populace is stupid, and just saw a face they recognised
The same thing happened in CALIFORNIA, many years later, when the harm that Reagan had done was well known (to the civilised world, admittedly. Muricans ignored it, despite living through it)
America will choose hate and stupidity, if the think that there’s a tiny chance that they will personally benefit as individuals
Most of them are stupid, and stupid people are afraid, and afraid people are easy to manipulate
Daily reminder that these voter counts are still the minority of the country doing things.
There are way too many stupid people, but it’s still not the majority
Apparently it is not whether they will benefit, more so that they are afraid someone else will. Our national motto is “Fuck those guys.” Deceptively simple with it’s darker meaning where those guys is not defined, only that the slightest perception of a variance in world view will put one into that category. Divided we fell.
many years earlier*
Reagan was governor of CA before he was president of the U.S. .
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.
Ronald Reagan Ruined Everything.
It’s really true. He was packaged and sold and is now touted as some hero.
It’s a good thing he was an actor. If he hadn’t came down with Alzheimer’s he may have gone to prison for selling drugs and missiles.
One of my least favorite things about the culture I currently live in is that people believe, without a doubt, that there are two sides to every issue. Every news story, every decision, every fucking thing needs ”both sides” to weigh in. And the world gets dumber and less interesting and more myopic. There are hundreds and thousands of viewpoints on any given topic, but if we get a couple of the most inane then we’re totally covered and the world goes on being “fair.”
This has to be one of the most harmful lasting cultural effects of the internet… Every moron with an opinion deserves a platform now apparently.
I mean I get that not kicking babies in the face might seem like a clean cut issue, but have you ever discussed it with a pro baby face kicker? Obviously there’s two sides to the story here!
They never told me that was a career option in high school.
I know some babies that need to be kicked in the face.
Like Trump?
Not only that, but it gives the other side a dangerous amount of legitimacy if we treat “both sides” as equally valid.
There are a lot of beliefs and opinions that are just bad and should only be ridiculed.
“Than ever” you know we had a war where we killed each other over the right for rich jackasses to own people, right?
I know, I hate neo-confederates
And you still practice slavery. Who really won?
Both sides? Lol Fox News has Fetterman on all the time. I guess that makes them fair and balanced
Insane that Reagan died of old age (more or less) and not by lethal injection. People like that don’t get such happy endings in most of the world.
“Both sides” is horrible. Not every view point should be given equal credence. For every anti-racist talking point you should have a racist talking is ridiculous.
Removing promoting both sides isn’t the problem, promoting dishonesty and hate is.
The difference is that each media stream had to show both sides, so you couldn’t have people watching one channel living in a bubble of fiction.
Right, which means you also have to give legitimacy to factually incorrect sides.
Fuck “both sides”. The problem with US media is that it’s all for-profit corporations.
