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Deregulation destroyed objective reporting


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2021 Mar 12, 5:03pm   292 views  6 comments

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Kathleene Parker
April 14, 2019
ABC’s The View is unapologetically one-sided, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-everything but the views of the hosts. CBS journalist Margaret Brennan — with a straight face — implied that all those right of center on immigration are likely white supremacists, while Big Media irresponsibly drive an “Indianapolis 500 rush to judgment,” blithely destroying reputations absent fact-checking.

Lost on everyone is that if we still had the Federal Communications Commission’s fairness doctrine, broadcast licenses would be revoked.

Big Media, by no longer objectively informing, threatens our very democracy. As the Washington Post says, hypocritically, considering its own highly questionable reporting, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Never have we been so awash in “news” yet so lacking in trustworthy information.

Critical issues reporting — court rulings, congressional actions, the objective consequences of immigration, tariffs, globalization, failing education, failing medicine, media deregulation — in short, real news, is replaced with trivia, celebrity and bias indiscernible from indoctrination, with that depicted as news, by no definition, news. The once-broad, inclusive news cycle has narrowed to a pathetic few stories — not representative of events of the day — and the oxymoron of stories endlessly rerun on the “news.”

The public blames, according to its political bent, conservative Fox News or “liberal media,” dangerously missing the real point, that deregulation eviscerated objective reporting. Social media and the internet solve nothing. Like all media, they lack objective reporting, like major newspapers and Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America,” used to deliver, believing that well-informed news consumers should draw their own conclusions — not be told what to think.

With the 1920s dawn of radio, leaders feared — prophetically — that broadcasters might wield their huge influence in dangerous ways and thus regulated broadcasting, not by censorship (except profanity standards) but by mandating ethics until:

• Ronald Reagan’s 1987 revocation of the Fairness Doctrine, which had banned bias and forbade news blackouts. One Southern TV station, for example, lost its license for refusing to report on the civil rights movement in a time when public protests to the FCC could cost broadcast licenses. The doctrine’s absence today means hot-button issues like immigration are reported only from ludicrously left-or-right emotional extremes absent context or middle-ground options. Worse are fabrications, such as media headlining our falling birthrate while blatantly ignoring astronomical 28 million to 30 million decadal population explosions, 82 percent immigration-driven, in ours, the third-most populated and highest — by a factor of three — per capita carbon nation. News once reported spontaneously — and honestly — based solely on its own merits is replaced by topics selectively reported to artificially create specific perceptions and a false national “reality.”

• President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act removing conflict-of-interest restrictions on all major-media ownership. Once, those who owned media could only own media. Now, those manufacturing weapons can own media, and — as I believe they have — use it to encourage war. National media, in 1996 owned by 52 entities, is now 90 percent owned by six near-monopolies, using TV, internet, major newspapers and movies to their own ends.

Are “leaders” so busy with partisan mudslinging — encouraged by media — they are unaware that media, more than any other force, is tearing the nation apart?

Or, is it that Big Media — a dangerous new version of Big Brother — is ensuring that the conversation about re-regulating media never happens?

Kathleene Parker writes nationally on population, the Southwest water crisis, immigration and timber issues. She lives in White Rock.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Mar 12, 7:36pm  

And fact checkers now deem stories "untrue" because it was "more likely" that X happened than Y, even though "more likely" is a complete judgement call (ie Vans with ballots in Detroit, at first they denied the vans and the ballots entirely and called it fake news, then when video came out of the vans at 3:30AM being unloaded, they kept the "False" but amended it to be "the vans were unlikely to be carrying fraudulent ballots". Even though the fact checkers have no evidence either way as to the ballots being manufactured or not)

We have fact checkers precisely because of the Fakeness of the News.
2   Patrick   2021 Mar 12, 7:40pm  

Saw a good quote today, I think by a Congressman: "Who fact checks the fact-checkers?"
3   HeadSet   2021 Mar 13, 6:16am  

I have read Kathleen Parker's column for years. She is an establishment Republican in the manner of George Will. And like George Will, she was anti-Trump. Kathleen Parkers articles appeared in the "Right" view of the Editorial Pages, but content wise most of what she wrote should be on the "Left."

Reading between the lines here, I think Kathleen Parker's real concern is how the Internet seriously degraded the monopoly, money, and prestige of the syndicated newspaper columnist, thus, taking a direct hit on Kathleen and friend's careers. Ironic how Kathleen cites the Internet sources as without facts, when the rise of Internet news came about when people discovered that alternate news source, and saw how the traditional Press had been lying to them all along. Note how they like to source Walter Cronkite as trustworthy and objective, when the reality may be he just had no challenges to anything he wanted to put out. By the way, "Cronkite" is just an Americanized spelling of the German word for "sickness."
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Mar 13, 10:06am  

HeadSet says
I have read Kathleen Parker's column for years. She is an establishment Republican in the manner of George Will. And like George Will, she was anti-Trump. Kathleen Parkers articles appeared in the "Right" view of the Editorial Pages, but content wise most of what she wrote should be on the "Left."


Wow, she is 100% GOPe. I betcha she said Trump was ruining the country by trying to "overturn" the Fraudulent Election in 2020 and "risk our democracy" or some shit... but in 2016 she was urging unfaithful electors. Total Cato the Younger (who railed against nepotism, except when it came to his son-in-law, railed against corruption, but stole the lands of Veterans using nominees, etc.)
5   Patrick   2021 Mar 13, 10:32am  

MisdemeanorRebel says
GOPe


Didn't know that one:

GOPe
Stands for Grand Old Party Elites (or establishment) ie. the Republican old guard or Country Club Republican
6   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2024 Nov 14, 8:36am  

The View isn't a news show. So it wouldn't fall under the reporting standards of the Fairness Doctrine anyway.

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