Posted on 12/22/2012 11:22:20 PM PST by Kaslin
The American people wouldnt stand for it? Only an idiot would bet that way.
Duuugh the federal givernment already HAS media control..
You could very well say that the desire for media attention was the primary cause of the massacre.
Ah, to dream...
Zimmerman is suing NBC News and should win easily. But government could impose a minimum fine of, say, $1 billion for each offense. Doing so would bring about the end of the race to be first and restore the drive to be right. It also would ruin NBC News.NBC wasn’t alone in promoting the belief among a substantial population that Zimmerman - and members of his family!! - should be lynched. So that suit should allege damages in eight figures, and it should include the Associated Press and all of its members as named defendants. As well as the FCC for licensing NBC et al, and promoting the fatuous conceit that broadcast journalism functions in the public interest. And the suit should be a Civil RICO suit for treble damages. Bringing the total claim into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
BTW, it isn’t “the media” - it is wire service journalism in particular - and most especially the AP for corrupting its membership by homogenizing their coverage.
Zimmerman is suing NBC News and should win easily. But government could impose a minimum fine of, say, $1 billion for each offense. Doing so would bring about the end of the race to be first and restore the drive to be right. It also would ruin NBC News.NBC wasn’t alone in promoting the belief among a substantial population that Zimmerman - and members of his family!! - should be lynched. So that suit should allege damages in eight figures, and it should include the Associated Press and all of its members as named defendants. As well as the FCC for licensing NBC et al, and promoting the fatuous conceit that broadcast journalism functions in the public interest. And the suit should be a Civil RICO suit for treble damages. Bringing the total claim into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
BTW, it isn’t “the media” - it is wire service journalism in particular - and most especially the AP for corrupting its membership by homogenizing their coverage.
Like N.P.R.?
Neutralizing the propaganda machine should be very high on the list of first accomplishments of a second American Revolution.
I could go on all day about the negative impact they have had on our ethics, our Constitution, Morals, and the willingness to promote more violence by by giving popularity to violence and tragedy.
I gave up my satellite TV service several months ago. I urge others to do the same. If you must have a local channel, get an antenna. Cut out the cable and the satellite TV. I refuse to fund the enemy. I can get my news here,and Breitbart. I am a member of forums that I select for my entertainment and information. I have not missed the TV.
The media truly believe they can have it both ways. When it suits them they charge out and disregard any consequences of their actions. Yet on topics that hurt The Precious Leader they stiffle any reporting on matters that are far more serious - Fast and Furious and Benghazi for instance.
It is a sad thing, I served this country for 22 years in the Navy because when I was 18 (a long way back) I truly loved this country. Today I hate it and it just pisses me off so bad I don’t know what to do. I think about why or how the country changed and the answer is obvious to me but the rules of this forum prevent me from truly speaking my mind.
Liberals are practitioners of "group guilt". There is no individual in their calculus. That's why locking up all Japanese Americans made perfect "sense" to FDR; and a willing MSM of the time. Just as today the MSM applauds politicians proposing to confiscate access to arms by lab abiding citizens because of the actions of one deranged individual.
This sort of marxist pathology of "group guilt" starts early in schools when the teacher punishes the whole class for the actions of a single student.
We already have media control. It’s the media itself!
It is an absolute fact that the majority of all media (in all forms) is ultra liberal and that they take their “marching orders” from the Ministry of Propaganda directly.
We will never cure this liberal disease simply because the owners of the majority of media in the U.S. are downright socialist/Marxists.
As our government (on all levels) turns it’s back on the Constitution and states rights, whatever the majority (women, blacks, hispanics, and every other type of minority) wants is promoted by the media and any trace of conservatism is demonized and shown as a danger to free choice without responsibility.
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Yes! We all see how well that idea has worked with public broadcasting.
The media operates independently, yet their major media voices count on government control.
That is the problem.
Media controls not only their own message, they also control who their competition is.
THAT is the problem. I do not know what the solution is, but we do not currently have an open competition.
We have a closed system. That is not what the Constitution spoke of.
Making it less free is not the solution.
Making it MORE free is the solution.
How does one make media more open to free and fair competition?
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