I was only following through the occasional tweets as I was on vacation this past week, but, damn, Kessler sure blew it on this one. When I saw people sharing the factcheck, I did think "well, the story is a liberal nightmare-fantasy come true, so maybe it is made up." But, yeah, Kessler made some pretty big mistakes here that you expertly called out.
Since we are on the subject of one-sided media reporting, or at least commentary, I wonder if there isn't value in lobbying to reinstate the FCC Fairness Doctrine. It seems that that US media was at its fariest during this era, and it's been pretty much downhill since Reagan eliminated it. Thoughts?
I read something recently about the prospect of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. My instinct is that in this era, it would just become its own political football. If a Democratic administration did reinstate, it would just go back out the window the next time we had a GOP administration. And so much media is consumed off the airwaves now, that's it couldn't have the same impact anyway.
I was only following through the occasional tweets as I was on vacation this past week, but, damn, Kessler sure blew it on this one. When I saw people sharing the factcheck, I did think "well, the story is a liberal nightmare-fantasy come true, so maybe it is made up." But, yeah, Kessler made some pretty big mistakes here that you expertly called out.
Since we are on the subject of one-sided media reporting, or at least commentary, I wonder if there isn't value in lobbying to reinstate the FCC Fairness Doctrine. It seems that that US media was at its fariest during this era, and it's been pretty much downhill since Reagan eliminated it. Thoughts?
I read something recently about the prospect of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. My instinct is that in this era, it would just become its own political football. If a Democratic administration did reinstate, it would just go back out the window the next time we had a GOP administration. And so much media is consumed off the airwaves now, that's it couldn't have the same impact anyway.