Mr. Whiton, with little to NO respect for your word-salad argument against free speech, allow me to remind you of a small detail. Every citizen, and every business, enjoys the freedoms of the First Amendment. Granted that some journalists are more blunt than others, the First does NOT add adjectives to its analysis of 'free speech.'
You are an advocate of censorship, with your trifling with words like 'left-wing progaganda' and all your other political allusions. So please don't cover your hypocrisy defending the Grand Liar himself, and all the putrid 'free speech' he has spewed, and defecated, on the nation itself.
You are an ''outlier' when it comes to revoking licences, and maybe you should be hung out to dry. But the courts are still operating, and eventually they will decide.
Apparently there are many fewer conservatives in media compared to liberals. Perhaps conservatives are too busy trying to produce necessary things rather than entertaining. Maybe the marketplace is too small to support too many mass media outlets. So we have alternatives like SubStack, blogs, YouTube, TicTok. The sad truth is the media noise drowns out truth signals.
Journalism as practiced by the big three and a half networks has bumped along to a smaller and smaller place in the American attention. It has landed just a few credibility precentage points from the supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. It accomplished this in the same way as the News: reporting hoaxes as fact. Leave them alone and let shareholders and market forces starve these entities as surely they are and will.
The Rs need to be suing these news agencies under the “like wise contribution” laws. They are no more than a mouthpiece of Democrat propaganda. That act has a monetary value that is not being shared with the other party. Sue them.
This article is not about ABC; it is a view into the enwokening of the right. One might have thought that when Trump took the wheel that leftist tendency to “cancel”, finally might be usurped by freedom of expression absent government or social pressures. Fascinating that now Republicans are in power, a column called "Capitalist Notes" has an article with a subtitle including the text "government power should be used to fix it". Reagan rolls in his grave. Consider the real point you’re making – embarrassing the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is grounds to strip back the first amendment. This is America. We ask the government hard-to-answer, often stupid, and frequently inappropriate questions. That is our birthright. Here are some better ideas than your communist one:
-Encourage more young people of right-of-center perspectives to enter the media industry and not be intimidated by existing bias.
- Reduce government power over broadcast structurally; more spectrum auctions, fewer special rents, less regulatory favoritism, not to hand even more discretionary censorship power to the state through the revocation of broadcast licenses.
-Build a conservative legal fund that is dedicated to suing media outlets when they lie to hold them accountable (which your own article posits as an effective solution).
"The First Amendment, like all of the rest, must have some limitation." What a chilling quote, straight from the apparatchiks controlling Twitter in the early 2020s. Curbing free speech is not and never will be the answer.
Iraq’s WMDs have been found!!
Fox News 😂
Mr. Whiton, with little to NO respect for your word-salad argument against free speech, allow me to remind you of a small detail. Every citizen, and every business, enjoys the freedoms of the First Amendment. Granted that some journalists are more blunt than others, the First does NOT add adjectives to its analysis of 'free speech.'
You are an advocate of censorship, with your trifling with words like 'left-wing progaganda' and all your other political allusions. So please don't cover your hypocrisy defending the Grand Liar himself, and all the putrid 'free speech' he has spewed, and defecated, on the nation itself.
You are an ''outlier' when it comes to revoking licences, and maybe you should be hung out to dry. But the courts are still operating, and eventually they will decide.
^ Chiefs fan, defending the crooked referees.
Apparently there are many fewer conservatives in media compared to liberals. Perhaps conservatives are too busy trying to produce necessary things rather than entertaining. Maybe the marketplace is too small to support too many mass media outlets. So we have alternatives like SubStack, blogs, YouTube, TicTok. The sad truth is the media noise drowns out truth signals.
Please stop whining.
Here you are reachable by the entire world complaining about having no voice.
SubStack is a very small world. But as noted is an outlet for a few folk like you and I.
Journalism as practiced by the big three and a half networks has bumped along to a smaller and smaller place in the American attention. It has landed just a few credibility precentage points from the supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. It accomplished this in the same way as the News: reporting hoaxes as fact. Leave them alone and let shareholders and market forces starve these entities as surely they are and will.
Monopoly bad, must be stopped more objective stations please
As evidenced by the Stephanopoulos slander and forthcoming BBC settlement, the 1st Amendment does not entitle the DNC propagandists to lie.
Can I start listing the Lies of Trump?
Can I prescribe something for your TDS George? I play a doctor on TV.
The Rs need to be suing these news agencies under the “like wise contribution” laws. They are no more than a mouthpiece of Democrat propaganda. That act has a monetary value that is not being shared with the other party. Sue them.
Did someone hurt the feelings of Trumplethinskin?
This article is not about ABC; it is a view into the enwokening of the right. One might have thought that when Trump took the wheel that leftist tendency to “cancel”, finally might be usurped by freedom of expression absent government or social pressures. Fascinating that now Republicans are in power, a column called "Capitalist Notes" has an article with a subtitle including the text "government power should be used to fix it". Reagan rolls in his grave. Consider the real point you’re making – embarrassing the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is grounds to strip back the first amendment. This is America. We ask the government hard-to-answer, often stupid, and frequently inappropriate questions. That is our birthright. Here are some better ideas than your communist one:
-Encourage more young people of right-of-center perspectives to enter the media industry and not be intimidated by existing bias.
- Reduce government power over broadcast structurally; more spectrum auctions, fewer special rents, less regulatory favoritism, not to hand even more discretionary censorship power to the state through the revocation of broadcast licenses.
-Build a conservative legal fund that is dedicated to suing media outlets when they lie to hold them accountable (which your own article posits as an effective solution).
"The First Amendment, like all of the rest, must have some limitation." What a chilling quote, straight from the apparatchiks controlling Twitter in the early 2020s. Curbing free speech is not and never will be the answer.