• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    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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      115 months ago

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

    • @TrickDacy
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      75 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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        95 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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        75 months ago

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

        The business model for Fox “News”.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      45 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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        35 months ago

        That seems more likely to just be actual news…