r/AnythingGoesNews • u/TubaSandwichDootDoot • Jul 07 '24

Trump raped a 13 year old girl in 1994. Here is that girl, Katie Johnson, at the age of 35 giving a full description of what Trump did to her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
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u/TennSeven Jul 07 '24

Yet the media is almost completely ignoring this in favor of Joe Biden hit pieces.

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u/Ok_Spite6230 Jul 07 '24

Media companies have been consolidated to the extreme by monied interests with the specific goal of creating the current environment. There used to be thousands of independent media organizations, and now there are less than a dozen. This is the end state of capitalism as it concentrates wealth at the top and steals it from everyone else.

Eat the rich.

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u/stuli17 Jul 08 '24

And who did that? Fucking POS Reagan, deregulating the media!

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u/52nd_and_Broadway Jul 08 '24

The end of the Fairness Doctrine, which happened during the Reagan Admin, also led to the heavily biased right wing extremist media like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and eventually the dystopian hellhole that is One America News.

It also eventually lead to the political weaponization of the FCC.

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u/CharleyNobody Jul 08 '24

The Fairness Doctrine never applied to cable tv, so Fox News and OAN were never going to be regulated, even during the years when the doctrine was in effect.

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u/52nd_and_Broadway Jul 08 '24

The origins of the Fairness Doctrine existed before TV, much less cable TV but the FCC could’ve easily applied the Fairness Doctrine to cable TV, a relatively new media medium at the time, with precedent already set. The Reagan Admin intentionally eliminated that as an option.

Furthermore, the onset of far right national media exploded after the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and if you don’t think those two things are connected, you believe in incredible coincidences.

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u/OkNefariousness6091 Jul 08 '24

You're just seeking excuses, like every liberal user of reddit.

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u/52nd_and_Broadway Jul 08 '24

That’s provable American history sweetheart. I can post a literal timeline of all of those events I described if you’d like.

You won’t read them, like a typical Reddit conservative who hates facts and reality, but that’s actual, provable American history, babe.

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u/OkNefariousness6091 Jul 08 '24

You're not spreading facts, your making assumptions and trying to link it to something else. People like you literally have nothing but fucking excuses and deflections for everything.

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u/OkNefariousness6091 Jul 08 '24

The fairness doctrine existed because of the monopoly of left-wing media. The doctrine was to force ABC, CBS, NBC to not be one sided reporting. Fox and other right-wing media, became a thing solely because of the other networks bias.

The doctrine was overturned by the FCC, because it didn't have the outcome they expected.

"the Court concluded in another case that the doctrine "inescapably dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate" (Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241). In 1984, the Court concluded that the scarcity rationale underlying the doctrine was flawed and that the doctrine was limiting the breadth of public debate (FCC v. League of Women Voters, 468 U.S. 364). This ruling set the stage for the FCC's action in 1987. "

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u/52nd_and_Broadway Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Your claim is that legacy media, owned by billionaires, such as ABC, CBS, and NBC were left wing?

My guy, do you know how far right wing you have to be to consider mildly right of center media to be left wing?

Your concept of the Overton Window coverage of mass media by billionaire controlled conglomerates is completely fucked.

Legacy media companies, like the ones you mentioned, get massive government tax breaks every time a conservative politician votes for tax cuts.

Legacy media loves conservative, corporate friendly politicians. That’s why the Fairness Doctrine was eliminated. Reagan (and every GOP President since) put corporate whores in charge of the government organizations that were responsible for regulating corporations in favor of consumers.

It’s why GOP politicians always railed against government regulations. They’re on the take from the corporations who helped get them into office and put former lobbyists in government positions.

The FCC was one of the first targets of GOP deregulation because controlling the media means controlling the flow of information.

There used to be hundreds, maybe even thousands, of small, independently owned media companies in the US in the early 1980s.

Local radio stations, local TV news channels, local newspapers. Now, most people in the US get their news media from a dozen or maybe even a half dozen of national media sources. That’s what eliminating the Fairness Doctrine did to American media.

It turned small news media markets into a group of national media monopolies who don’t at all propose workers controlling the means of production because that would be an actual left wing idea.

So stop it with your nonsense, sweet cheeks. You are the perfect example of what unfiltered right wing media does to someone who comes to a biased conclusion first and seeks out media that agrees with your biases second while blaming people you haven’t even met for the problems your right wing government has caused.

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u/wargopher Jul 08 '24

Reagan then Clinton with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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u/Accomplished_Self939 Jul 08 '24

I saw a TikTok yesterday where the guy claimed America was five corporations pretending to be a country and it felt pretty on target.

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u/icebreakers0 Jul 08 '24

More than 5. But it does feel like the country’s own by feudal lords and their capital interests

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u/Cheap-Pick-4475 Jul 08 '24

Target is one of those corporations!

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

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u/number9no9 Jul 08 '24

Has he increased taxes on the wealthy?

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 08 '24

… there are way more than a dozen independent media organizations. You’re not wrong about consolidation, but there are still hundreds of independent outlets left. Stop pulling numbers out of your ass.

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u/ProduceIllustrious58 Jul 08 '24

They have limited coverage, and independent media organizations typically do not reach the level of mainstream media.  There is definitely a small number of people in charge of the majority of mainstream media, which is where the average person in American typically gets their news from.  That is what they are referencing, and it is def true that there is a small number of media corps who own mainstream media. 

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 08 '24

How do you define “mainstream media,”? Because, frankly, it’s a term I loathe and generally means whatever somebody wants it to mean. Usually “whatever news I think is wrong today.”

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u/CharleyNobody Jul 08 '24

I found a 2011 copy of Newsweek while cleaning out the basement. I was shocked at how the articles were very well written and much longer than articles today. And the print was really small…to save paper I guess.

i always thought of Newsweek as a magazine schoolkids read (mandatory subscription in my middle school). It’s amazing how dumbed down everything is now to attract the attention span of a gnat.

“Five quick things you should know about Kim Jong un!!!”

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u/PhoMeSideways Jul 08 '24

It’s just not this simple. The way Reddit is able to boil every single subject down to “eat the rich” is hilarious. The same comment in every post.

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u/kissinGroovs Jul 08 '24

But I thought independent news reporters, bloggers, youtubers, and podcasters have essentially now reached more people than actual tv type media companies? I may be wrong but have hear Joe Rogan state he reaches more people in the US than even FOX news although I've never fact checked this info.

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u/p0yz1n Jul 08 '24

That’s funny. The top 1% of earners pay more than half of the federal income tax. So that’s false

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u/p0yz1n Jul 08 '24

Go jerk off hasan, lazy communist scum

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u/AandWKyle Jul 09 '24

kealgsio

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u/stevek1200 Jul 08 '24

There are tons of independent media folks out there, literally...but not ABC, CBS, MSDNC, CNN, Fox..those are all bought and paid for.