We’re in the find out phase of ending the Fairness Doctrine
You can thank Ronald Reagan…
Yep, this country wasn’t over when Trump got elected either time. He’s a symptom of this country’s death in its current form under the current constitution.
Reagan was the deathblow, this has just been leftover momentum, that appears to have finally waned. From Trickle down, to legalized bribery, to conversion of their former opposition party into neoliberal corporate bribe takers, to ending real news in favor of corpo serving propaganda like “climate change is a hoax to sell books, CONSUME” on and on.
Trump’s authoritarian rise is just akin to vultures helping themselves to the corpse. This country has been little more than an oligarch exploitation piggy bank for half a century.
Yes it would be painful, but we’d need to tear it down and start over, as the core constitutional mechanisms for change have been circumvented through intential propaganda to sow division and protect the sociopathy of our economy from the citizens it hurts and murders for private profit. But we won’t out of cowardice, so climate change will do what we’re too social opiate addicted and fearful to do in a couple decades when it will hardly matter anymore.
The fairness doctrine didn’t do what you think it did.
Mind adding context?
I probably should have said “wouldn’t” rather than “didn’t”. It’s grossly out-of-date and would be a gross violation of the first amendment if it were to be tried as people want it to be.
It applied only to “holders of broadcasting licenses”. That is - “old timey television and radio” that was broadcast over the airwaves. The reasoning being that the airwaves are a limited resource (there can only be so many TV and radio stations in a given area) so the government didn’t want a single entity to monopolize all of it with a single voice.
But it wouldn’t apply to the internet, cable TV, or any other modern form of communication. It wouldn’t do anything to Twitter. It wouldn’t even effect Fox News (the cable station) or NewsMax.
Does it have something to do with the rebublicanification of mainstream media?
Why watch any of the 15 choices I have if they all report the same slop in an endless loop?
Watching the news, waiting for people to step up and follow in the footsteps of a real hero.
Could it have something to do with how long the US election cycle is? It seems that basically the whole term is full campaign mode for the next election.
Compare to other countries with much shorter official election campaigns (4-6 weeks) and I wonder if they are less tiring.
That’s true. They should consider limiting it.
If you are burnt out then perhaps don’t read this, but for anyone who wants to know… https://theintercept.com/2024/12/18/trump-fisa-surveillance-spying/ - it doesn’t seem to say much of anything though still it makes me worry. Clickbait? Obviously. Merely clickbait or not though I don’t know.
I put a hard pause on any news after the election. No reason feeding into any narrative until the turd takes office.
Some of my friends have expressed a desire to do so. They’re disappointed in the country. A third of the country voted for fascism, and a third of the country didn’t give a shit. It’s a hard fight to stay motivated, even for issues that directly relate to oneself, if the process feels hopeless - not simply by the opposition of powerful elites, but by the opposition of the overwhelming mass of your fellow citizens.
This is a definitional question. A lot of shit on news shows is not actually news IMO. It’s shit, experts saying nothing about nothing, light on facts and heavy on innuendo about speculation… Of course people get tired of that. They don’t learn or understand anything by watching it.
Repealing the Fairness Doctrine was a very bad move.
Fox News views by dementia patients is still at an all time high.
Can confirm.
Source: I work in elder care.
The last eight years have been eight years too many of awful, horrible shit. I’m presently trying to decide whether I can attempt to ignore the next four or if they’ll destroy me. This will guide whether I remain in-country or flee.
Yup.
I’m done.
There’s no room left for doubt. Americans are braindead stupid and our media is an international joke. After the election I stopped watching anything political. Made the jump from Reddit to Lemmy. And I’m only seeing this post because I was browsing ALL.
On inauguration day I plan on only browsing my local subs going forward. I don’t need to be more ashamed of being American or know what clown car bullshit Donald Trump and his enablers have done that day to embarrass us on the world stage.
We’ve committed as a society to a degradation of our nation and that’s what we’re going to get. I don’t need to watch that process under a microscope.
Same here, I was already using Lemmy but I deleted the Reddit app the day of the election, and I actively avoid political news on any social media. I’m super done with it all and just focusing on myself.
Focusing on yourself is pretty much all you can do. If a society chooses to enter a downward spiral, then there’s not much an individual can do to change that. We’re just gonna have to spiral until we hit rock bottom and then hope Americans have what it takes to piece it all back together. Probably gonna be a lot of suffering and death before that happens though.
Sounds like you are fed up of the poor quality circus coverage that passes for mainstream media news.
Perhaps you can find some better quality news and consume it at a time and place of your choosing? Maybe limit it to 10 minutes a day or a week?
It is understandable that you might turn to apathy having the news equivalent of highly processed, poor quality fast food shovelled into your face all the time; especially given how powerless to change these things we can feel. But you may be able to take back some control of your media diet.
It’s not the quality of the content. I’m responsible when it comes to my sources. It’s the sheer volume of legitimate depressing news making it crystal clear that our society is amoral and uneducated and that I’m probably not going to see too much progress in my lifetime and will probably struggle as much, or more, than I currently am until I’m dead. I could be getting my news from the absolute best, most unbiased sources and still be getting overwhelmed by utterly depressing developments that add up to a really grim outlook for the future.
I’m in this camp as well. I followed the news closely the entire Trump administration and through the Biden administration, and despite knowing everything this prick had done the American electorate either shrugged it all off or didn’t follow any of it and reelected his ass.
Nothing positive came of me knowing about Trump’s every bowel movement via crappy media posts. Many voters didn’t even know Biden had dropped out of the race.
I don’t think the “Trump is good for ratings” media outlets anticipated this reaction of ours, but the nightmare scenario of a second Trump term has already arrived and the media – if they had any effect – aided him in his return to power. I’m through with clicking on the bait and pretending that “democracy dies in darkness” and subscribing to the same newspapers that help push right-wing narratives in an effort to appear unbiased.
Edit: I am, however, subscribed to a number of things via RSS to stay informed without being part of their clickbait games. I cannot recommend enough people going back to RSS.
The next four years are in part going to be about Trump and his assortment of grifters, nut jobs, and ass kissers doing all they can to troll anyone not in their club. Damn straight I’m not tuning in for that.
I know enough from the past few decades that voting for anyone in the right or center (e.g., corpo-dem) isn’t an option. I don’t want to spend 4 more years of hearing how Trump is getting the endangered species act or gutting the NLRB when there is shit I can do about it. Calling my deep blue legislators isn’t going to do anything. So yeah, tuning out is the better strategy
That is the deal: We give as much attention right up to the election as we can, then we get a break! Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are meant as a cooling off period. If we were supposed to keep paying attention, the president would be put into office the next day.
If we were supposed to keep paying attention, the president would be put into office the next day.
If we were meant to bake cakes, they’d be ready in 1 minute.
If we were meant to bake cakes the day after the 9 month ALL-CAKE-ALL-THE-TIME-athon, they would be at least good for you. We have 4 years of turd-cakes to eat come January 20th, can’t we eat something else until then?
Sounds like that’s your deal.
I think this headline is likely wrong. Political podcasts, for example, seem to be doing fairly well. It’s just the shit the large news groups are putting out that people are running from. You can only fear monger and have 24/7 outrage for so long before people tune it out for their own sanity.
