• @[email protected]
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      News ought to be a regulated word, if you put it on your show or paper or anything, anywhere, it means you can’t knowingly lie.

      Politicians ought to be held to that same requirement, you aren’t allowed to knowingly lie.

      You want your full first amendment rights (to lie and deceive) back? Stop being a politician or a “news” person.

      • JustEnoughDucks
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        113 months ago

        They were, before Reagan intentionally fucked it all up in his crusade of feces

      • @TrickDacy
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        73 months ago

        You are so right about this. A lot of times knowledge like that is provable. Why the fuck isn’t this a thing?

        • JustEnoughDucks
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          93 months ago

          Guess what? Just like 50% of all bad things about America, Reagan happened.

          America used to have regulations on the media. Reagan abolished them in his attempt to make the entire world a dogshit corporate dystopian hellscape.

        • @The_v
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          73 months ago

          Fraud -the crime of obtaining money or property by deceiving people:

          The business model for Fox “News”.

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        43 months ago

        Probably only something will happen when those lying are themselves blasted with so much lies that something needs to happen. It would require something like Russians propaganda machine to insinuate each republican politician had gay sex.

        • @lemonmelon
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          33 months ago

          That seems more likely to just be actual news…

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      If only. We knew lots of folks that died after refusing Covid vaccination. They’d been told batshit crazy stuff by the media they took to be gospel.