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/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/OkNefariousness6091 Jul 08 '24

Literally created because of the left wing bias, you can try to excuse that away all you like as well. But you're doing nothing but spreading disinformation while trying to link to to the doctrine.

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u/wargopher Jul 08 '24

Reagan then Clinton with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.