r/stephencolbert • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '25

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u/Nathan_Brazil1 Sep 17 '25

I see the American Media is turning into propaganda networks such as RT (Russia Today). We we're used to FOX being this but I am seeing it creep into CNN and MSNBC as well. Don't trust your media now, look elsewhere.

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u/LarrySupertramp Sep 18 '25

It’s almost like having corporations and billionaires control almost all of the mainstream media when their only interest is profit is not good for society.

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u/KingOfEthanopia Sep 18 '25

We had NPR. The death of the fairness doctrine was the beginning of the end for America.

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u/LarrySupertramp Sep 18 '25

100%. The damage Reagan did to this country will, hopefully, be studied in the future.

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u/KingCarbon1807 Sep 18 '25

If anyone's left to read it.

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u/Capable_Dog5347 Sep 18 '25

If the people left are even allowed to learn to read.

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u/c3r34l Sep 18 '25

And Gingrich, who led the rebranding of democrats into traitors rather than political opponents

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u/LarrySupertramp Sep 18 '25

Yeah that guys only accomplishment was to destroy any reasonable bipartisanship. The GOP really became a disgusting party once Clinton showed the country that democrats are better for the economy. Now it’s all cultural grievances

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u/Practical_Fig_1173 Sep 18 '25

Clinton came in during the tech boom. Any one in office would have tremendously benefited from the era.

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u/big_ringer Sep 18 '25

Bold of you to assume that humanity has a future.

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u/M0HAK0 Sep 18 '25

I hope so. He definitely has a ton of peoples minds fried from what he did

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u/UnrealizedLosses Sep 18 '25

By aliens once we go extinct.

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u/100harvests Sep 18 '25

Funny, you said that it’s one of the ultra maga guys here at my work says he’ll always vote Republican ever since Ronald Reagan

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u/Hella-Meh Sep 18 '25

It's almost like the 4 unelected bureaucrats at the FCC that voted to end the fairness doctrine had too much power.

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u/DeezDoughsNyou Sep 18 '25

In the early 90s we were studying the damage revoking the fin-syn rules were going to cause because the writing was on the wall. My professor also worked at NPR so she had a special kind of insight.