Posted on Mar 21, 2021
Would you support stronger regulations for the news media in this country?
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I am not proposing direct government monitoring rather have an industry panel of partisan neutral judges determine what news pieces are advocacy journalism and thus carry a label on the TV screen as EDITORIAL CONTENT vs news pieces that are free of it and based on facts only which would be labeled NEWS CONTENT on the TV screen. So I am only advocating a return to the labeling scheme the big three networks used to use in the 1950-1960's era and thats it and as far as it would go. I think it is needed. Because on social media a lot of the folks consuming the media are confused over the news presented in what is a personal opinion or editorial comment vs what is fact. I think if we put this regime back in place it would calm a lot of people down as well as lead to more civic based discussions. The panel determining the labeling would be appointed by the various news channels with the stipulation the panel members be demonstrably neutral in their approach to politics and the news based on their past published works or fields of study. Perhaps later extend this to print journalism.
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SPC Erich Guenther The press considers the First Amendment their passport to write, report or disclose whatever they personally think. If they cannot be honest and unbiased in their reporting, the First Amendment will soon be discarded.
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SSG Brian G.
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Then perhaps you need to read it slowly so it sinks in. In essence what he is saying is that the press is biased, and they hide behind the 1st Amendment like a shield when called out on that bias and their often outright lies and twisting of facts.
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SSG Brian G.
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Then, a$$hat, perhaps you should knock YOUR condescending BS off, if you cannot deal with it being chucked back at you. And it was not condescending as too many these days skim read over what is written and fail to grasp the meaning of what is written. THINK ~BEFORE~ you post.
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No - because that's going to lead down a dangerous road of government censorship.
If people are too lazy to do research and learn the difference between editorials, op-eds, and what are legit news sources and what are basically blogs, that's on them for being lazy.
The simple fact you said "...if we put this regime back in place..." and used the word "regime" is even more telling.
If people are too lazy to do research and learn the difference between editorials, op-eds, and what are legit news sources and what are basically blogs, that's on them for being lazy.
The simple fact you said "...if we put this regime back in place..." and used the word "regime" is even more telling.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
SSG Brian G. It is telling. Just because something "worked" once doesn't mean it would now. Things have drastically changed since then. No $hit words have meaning. Thanks for that. Smh.
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SSG Brian G.
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - lol It is NOT telling except in your mind. And there is no reason it would not work now. Things have not dramatically changed since then, not in terms of news networks, unless you mean the slipping of actual creditable reporting standards and failure to remain unbiased. Well perhaps if you kept in mind that they have meaning it would not NEED to be pointed out to you. Perhaps all this "smh" you have been doing is the problem here as it does not promote clear cognition.
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Cpl Benjamin Long
Are you trying to tell us that there is a gnosis behind your definition of regime that most people lack agency to understand?
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I doubt it would be possible to find any non-partisan people to serve on a panel. Everything is hyper partisan anymore.
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SSG Brian G.
SFC Randy Hellenbrand - And you are full of your own BS. Calling you on it. Also correcting your post... the LEFT does not know any truth.
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