(December 25, 2014 at 6:04 pm)RonaldReagansGhost666 Wrote: In America, six large media corporations have near-total control of all news that Americans receive. All of these corporations suck and give biased and at times false reporting, but there are certain media outlets that are worse than others.
This spectrum goes from the least bad, CNN, to what is the most terrible and tasteless excuse for journalism out there, Fox News, or as I like to call it, Fux "News."
Whenever a hateful, bigoted right-wing view is expressed on American television it is almost always from Fux. Fux News is out there to deceive the people into supporting bullshit neoliberal policies that end up making the rich even richer at the expense of America's poor, supporting America's international imperialist agenda, spewing hate speech against gays, blacks, immigrants and other minorities, and and dismissing issues like police brutality and the ineffectiveness of the War of Drugs.
This is why I think it'd be necessary to revoke Fux "News"' broadcasting license for good. Some may say that it is a violation of freedom of the press. I call bullshit. If anything, fucking corporate media is too blame for violations of press freedom due to its self-censorship and absolute reliance on the US gov't as a source. These US "news" outlets are nothing more than de-facto state media. They hinder reporting that is actually accurate.
Shutting down a state-owned Soviet radio station would be no more of a violation of press freedom than shutting down Fux "News" or any other of the big six corporate media outlets.
I am no fan of outright censorship, but I certainly am for better regulation. I think far too much of what media does is damaging to society. It isn't a matter of disagreeing but going after the buck without regards of facts. I think these guys should be sued for deliberately damaging society by ignoring facts, distorting them and flat out lying in many cases.
I have been sing a rise of crappy twitter and FB pages that compete with the Onion, but they do a horrible job making the distinction between satire and "news".
Fox is a political party machine and very little of it is actual neutrally reported news. Our freedom depends on responsible reporting much moreso than making a buck. It isn't the private sector that bothers me, it is the lack of responsibility that does. Selling fear may be good for the profit margins and shareholders, but that is short term and the long term damage to facts hurts everyone.
