I thought Faux News was âfair and balancedâ. s/
Of course not. Last thing theyâd want is to put a human face on their symbol.
In the old days, before Reagan, we had a âFairness Doctrineâ. Wasnât a law, more of an agreement among broadcasters that if you attacked someone on-air you had to provide equal time for a defense/rebuttal.
It applied only to broadcasts, not cable, but if we had this back, if âbroadcastersâ HAD to allow someone they attacked to defend themselves weâd have a more civil discourse- and less Fox âNewsâ.
VOTE!
Well, George, you should know that FoxNews only books the âgood Jewsâ, like Shelly Adelson. You know, the ones that let them get away with their anti-Semitic conspiracy theories by not saying a word criticizing them.
In honor of George Soros, - a Holocaust survivor who should not have to endure this shit and whose batshit crazy accusers should be horsewhipped - a beautiful Hebrew song by Maurice Ravel:
Where is the Fairness Doctrine when you need it⊠OH yeah, in a prescient move the GOP had it repealed it in 1987
Thatâs because heâs a Jew-y Jew Jew Jew Jewness Jewella dâEvil. He needs to get uncircumised, swear allegiance to Fox and Trump, and crawl humbly through Jew-y Manhattan crying out his sins.
Then theyâll consider.
For years I noticed that Faux rarely showed Obama at any length, in sharp contrast to their daily role as Trumpâs megaphone. Their form of propaganda relies on reinforcing the caricature of their opponent, and it withers when exposed to the actual reasonable human.
Well OF COURSE! If they booked him and actually let him SPEAK he wouldnât be the boogy man that theyâve been ranting and railing against for decadesâŠpeople MIGHT be able to judge for themselvesâŠmaybe.
Soros has lots of money (at least thatâs what we keep hearing), so why doesnât he book himself of Faux News? In other words, why doesnât he plunk down enough to get, say, five or ten minutes of time and either make a statement or be interviewed by some well-known professional.
Indeed, if we progressives complain that the people on the other side only hear what goes out on Fix Schmooze, why donât liberals buy time on the network to speak directly to that audience? Maybe, here and there, the process of changing minds would start.
Of course they would not want to book him. If he was on set he could immediately call out their disinformation/lies for what they are, that is not how they want the narrative to play out. Even if a few hours later it means that they can conveniently forget about the rebuttal, much harder to do that if the rebuttal is contemporaneous.
You need a few more âjewsâ in there to really make the point, but seven is getting to the level of the POINT.
He should PAY for the privilege of defending himself? Thatâs a new one.
Probably a little late for this, but that would be an interesting media studies project: how many times Obama or Clinton were shown on Faux, vs. how many times Spankee was in the same period.
My guess is that the two together wouldnât equal his.
On the âjust buy timeâ thing, remember that stations can accept or reject paid content as they choose. First amendment and all that (barf).
The dreamer in me is thinking that Soros and his lawyers are setting up the predicates for âactual maliceâ.
Of course not. That would be like having Emmanuel Goldstein on to rebut the Two Minutesâ Hate.
Well, if I were advising him, I wouldnât suggest that he defend himself. Iâd take the opportunity to make his case. If that happens also to be a defense against what has been slung at him, so be it.
What I am saying is that we can reach the people who watch Fox, and whom we complain confine themselves to that network, butâyesâweâll have to pay for the privilege. Thatâs what advertisers do.
This is actually not a bad idea. If we want to change things it may be how the game needs to be played. John Oliver has been doing some of this with his catheter cowboy commercials. Maybe we need more and more serious approaches to reach a conservative audience. Would it be money well spent?
They know heâd expose them for the morons they are. They are stupid, but only to a point. They are not quite as stupid as their viewers.
Every once in a while I come up with something that is not really stupid.