F**e News And Ridiculous Unsupported Misinformation Has to Be Eliminated From Main Stream Media Sources
Oct 16, 2020 15:49:38 #
It's the only way to fight stupid rhetoric and unsupported facts. Theories and ridiculous things are repeated by FOX heard and believed by millions, and they then never go away.
News sources used to adhere to a standard that they refused to run something that could not be proved. Their reputations were solidly attached to 100% factual stories. We need that standard back, and the only way to get it is going to be consumer protection that protects us against fraudulent stories and rhetoric.
Nobody complains about manufacturing consumer protection, we have laws that prevents manufacturers from making any unfounded claims about their products that can't be proved, they are t***h in advertising laws. It is not that egregious a loss to know that any claim made has been vetted and can be proved. Nobody complains about manufacturers having their constitutional rights to say wh**ever misleading things they want to dupe consumers into buying products that won't do what they say they will.
Misleading the public is fraud, misrepresenting a situation is fraud, making claims that something is completely different than the reality is fraud. Nobody will miss the unsubstantiated claim they have come to believe is fact when it can be proved it is not. Contrary to Kelly Anne Conway's claim to real Americans that there is an alternative set of facts, that when enough people believe something it becomes fact...no, no matter how many times your hear the same misinformation, no matter how many people believe it, no matter that you have a right to believe wh**ever you want, that thing that many many people believes, that alternative fact as Conway called it is still BS and a lie. People cannot have intelligent conversations, dialogs, or come to solutions when so many people have a set of beliefs that is so far off from the facts and reality.
There is going to have to be clearing houses for solidly corroborated facts and reality to serve as a fact check so we can be dealing with the same reality when trying to solve problems. There isn't a single thing we need to start fixing in government that doesn't have a reality of how things are that is offset by big business corporate greed and their interests that isn't complete BS.
We need t***h in media laws, sources have to be rated as to their accuracy and integrity...something has to give on having a country that has some of the most misled people on earth. The solutions I can think of serve both sides equally, and there is no bias to the t***h underlying facts and reality that can be proved. It's the people who are most subject to believing misinformation that are the most resistant to doing anything to stop it.
Nobody should be resistant to working toward a media system that weeds out the BS and gives us t***h and facts that we can start relying on. There will always be the Breitbarts that spew wh**ever misinterpreted crap they pull out of their butts, that is what it is, but mainstream media sources need to go back to a prove it or don't publish it mode.
News sources used to adhere to a standard that they refused to run something that could not be proved. Their reputations were solidly attached to 100% factual stories. We need that standard back, and the only way to get it is going to be consumer protection that protects us against fraudulent stories and rhetoric.
Nobody complains about manufacturing consumer protection, we have laws that prevents manufacturers from making any unfounded claims about their products that can't be proved, they are t***h in advertising laws. It is not that egregious a loss to know that any claim made has been vetted and can be proved. Nobody complains about manufacturers having their constitutional rights to say wh**ever misleading things they want to dupe consumers into buying products that won't do what they say they will.
Misleading the public is fraud, misrepresenting a situation is fraud, making claims that something is completely different than the reality is fraud. Nobody will miss the unsubstantiated claim they have come to believe is fact when it can be proved it is not. Contrary to Kelly Anne Conway's claim to real Americans that there is an alternative set of facts, that when enough people believe something it becomes fact...no, no matter how many times your hear the same misinformation, no matter how many people believe it, no matter that you have a right to believe wh**ever you want, that thing that many many people believes, that alternative fact as Conway called it is still BS and a lie. People cannot have intelligent conversations, dialogs, or come to solutions when so many people have a set of beliefs that is so far off from the facts and reality.
There is going to have to be clearing houses for solidly corroborated facts and reality to serve as a fact check so we can be dealing with the same reality when trying to solve problems. There isn't a single thing we need to start fixing in government that doesn't have a reality of how things are that is offset by big business corporate greed and their interests that isn't complete BS.
We need t***h in media laws, sources have to be rated as to their accuracy and integrity...something has to give on having a country that has some of the most misled people on earth. The solutions I can think of serve both sides equally, and there is no bias to the t***h underlying facts and reality that can be proved. It's the people who are most subject to believing misinformation that are the most resistant to doing anything to stop it.
Nobody should be resistant to working toward a media system that weeds out the BS and gives us t***h and facts that we can start relying on. There will always be the Breitbarts that spew wh**ever misinterpreted crap they pull out of their butts, that is what it is, but mainstream media sources need to go back to a prove it or don't publish it mode.
Oct 16, 2020 16:06:42 #
This history of the American press from five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin is a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.
Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.
With the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and t***sparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other.
It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the supposed “objectivity of the press” first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive unt***h as to its real nature.
At Amazon, Unfreedom of the Press has received over 6,000 reader reviews, 92% of whom give it 5 stars.
Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.
With the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and t***sparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other.
It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the supposed “objectivity of the press” first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive unt***h as to its real nature.
At Amazon, Unfreedom of the Press has received over 6,000 reader reviews, 92% of whom give it 5 stars.
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