+1The Conservative wrote:When the press is no longer the 4th pillar, but an extension of one of the three, it is time to tare it down and rebuild it to be exactly what it was meant to be.Montegriffo wrote:Ok then, now how do we do this without the suspension of the free press and state censorship? There are already laws in place to stop incitement to violence even in the ''free world of America''. Whenever I tried to support UK rules about incitement to hate I got a lot of ''thin edge of the wedge'' arguments thrown back in my face. I still don't think ''we can't do that because it might lead to this'' is a valid argument but I never supported a crime of biased reporting law like you seem to be doing.The Conservative wrote:
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Don't forget, the media is controlled/owned by only a handful of people, it is a monopoly on a scale that should not exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cro ... ted_States
Who owns those companies? Now don't forget we also have the same issue with newspapers as well.
We need to break up this bastardization of what we call the media, they all answer to about a dozen or so people, especially the big papers and media entities...
When one paper runs a story, they all run it... it's not because they can't come up with their own story, its because they are all parroting the same thing because of ownership. Instead of doing their own research, or any at all it is easier to repeat than report.
There are stories every year that come along and shouldn't be national stories, but they are. Like the story 10 years ago where the husband killed the wife in the new fishing boat around Christmas. I still don't know why that local story became national.