The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.
Ronald Reagan started the fight to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Back in the Cronkite Era, if a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for opposing views.
Rush Limbaugh and his gross career owes its entire existence to that. He is someone who believes that drug dealers and smugglers need to be shot without trial… and he himself was a drug dealer when he was hard for cash.
Tells you a good deal of what kind of person we’re dealing with here.
And Clinton put the final nail in the coffin with the telecom Reform Act.
Hold my beer!
-The Telecommunications Act of 1996
There should be regulation around use of the word “news”. Many of these stations call themselves “News Radio” as if they only reported verifiable facts, but well over 50% is opinion.
Anything presented as news should be kept separate from opinion. If it’s news, you should be able to defend it like it was said under oath.
Personally, I would love it if news channels had to distinguish opinion content from news by removing the word news from the screen and replacing it with the word opinion. That or some other clear and unmistakable signal to the audience should be there to establish whether the station is going on record and asserting facts or whether this is some talking head spewing bullshit.
It’s crazy that news papers have been doing this forever. You have your news section and opinion and editorial section. TV and radio should definitely follow the format and be clear about what they are presenting.
They tried with air America and it was ok but not really all that compelling. Truth and facts just don’t sell like toxic divisive fantasies.
Isn’t that how we got the national treasure that is Rachel Maddow?
You can literally see the generational technical divide which is not clean.
I’d bet most households /car owners could have their age and political alignments rated solely on a few metrics.
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Do you watch cable? Do you stream shows? Do you pirate.
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Do you own a car? Use the radio or Bluetooth? Have a Spotify or YouTube account?
You’d easily see people’s politics fit in with where they get their content.
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Those that talk the most are usually the ones you should listen to the least.
Honestly radio is dying much like television.
Podcasting is the better space to get going.
Also tictoc.
We need to get the young folks of the incel pipeline .
US fascism arrived before radio was invented.
You’re free to leave. Because blanket statements and false accusations might work in your favor elsewhere.
The US? It’s not free to leave temporarily or permanently, no idea who lied to you. More importantly it’s conservatives like you that tend to give up instead of trying to make the world better.
I’m a conservative now? Boy, you really do like making your assumptions, don’t you? I’m going to guess that you’re no stranger to accusing people of supporting genocide, right?
Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh! Maybe check people’s comment history before making ignorant accusations and assumptions of others.
And are you seriously suggesting that I am incapable of leaving America if I chose? Man… I should cancel my vacation plans to Ireland I guess.
You’re advocating and defending a conservative party, if you’re not conservative that’s just silly.
As far as your second sentence, 2/10.
You clearly have a reading comprehension problem.
That, or you’re a typical lemmy leftist that has no fucking clue what nuance is. My guess is that it’s a little of both with the latter being a result of the former.
It’s not a conservative stance to say America isn’t fascist. It is an ignorant stance to make blanket statements about an entire country of people, its history- and its entire culture of political belief.
I started off by suggesting that if they think America is fascist, they’re welcome to leave. YOU decided to blather on. Nonsense and poorly constructed attacks on who I am and what I believe in some sad semblance of a defense.
Learn how nuance affects everything that exists. The world isn’t black or white, yes or no, with us or against us. Nuance touches everything.
And learn it quick.
And neat how you managed to get the same amount of upvotes on your response mere minutes after making it- which was two hours after I commented and had zero downvotes. That seems to happen a lot with your comments I noticed. Your sock puppets won’t unwrite your ignorance.
You’re here in bad-faith. We’re done here.
In American politics the “love it or leave it” trope you are using is undeniably right-wing rhetoric. It was first popularized in that form by McCarthy and Nixon as a response to civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests. It has since been used by Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump primary in response to either protests or immigrants that they believe have not sufficiently assimilated into American culture. It’s also probably the most unAmerican trope currently used in American political discourse. Protest and criticism of government is fundamental to America’s history and identity and is covered by 3 of the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.
I don’t care about tropes. The point is, if someone thinks it’s fascist here, they can leave. Go see if it’s better elsewhere. I’m simply pointing out that they have options.
Also, Everyone wins if they do. America loses an idiot that makes blanket falsehoods, and they find a place that isn’t fascist. But then again, if they think America is a fascist country- there will be nowhere they can go where someone like that will see anything different.
I’m not going to apologize for having little tolerance for ignorance. If that makes me a “conservative” in your eyes, then I’ll call you blind and move on and forget you existed moments later, but I’m not going to pretend to live in a word where nuanced topics don’t exist.
Don’t like being told to get the fuck out if you’re not happy? Don’t make dumbass ignorant and childish statements.
I’m right where I need to be.
Even in Canada. Most talk radio stations are right wing hate BS.
US fascism had been here for decades. Too many people don’t recognize fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny. If you’re part of the privileged group fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition. (status quo)
I don’t think there’s been one since Air America. Al Franken hung out there. Rachel Maddow.
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