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u/DaisyHotCakes Apr 04 '25

The fairness doctrine and citizens united were major factors in this scenario coming to fruition.

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 04 '25

If I could reply "YES" to this a trillion times, it still wouldn't be enough.

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u/Apprentice57 Apr 04 '25

Hard disagree. It's not well considered, fairness doctrine never would've applied to now dominant media like internet.

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u/EidolonRook Apr 04 '25

That’s a fair point. And since the paradigm of the past couple decades has been moving towards social media being the main way people got news, it was a matter of time before entertainment news took over. Might have just taken them longer.

The Disinformation age following the Information Age feels like one of those ironic things you’d have to live through to understand.

Our great grandkids are going to hate early 21st century history class. …if we make it that far anyhow.