I watched these articles appear in real time streaming Angry Cops live on Yt. There should be some way to prevent such speculative, incendiary, exploitative, under-produced garbage reporting. There was no way that anyone, especially the press had any idea what was going on and just chose to use fear to scare people into clicks. Why can’t we have a truth in reporting legislation where this national enquirer level crap cannot happen without the larger company thinking about their bottom line? Just make them give all their money they made from ads on that bad journalism plus extra to the families they hurt with it.
You know the answer. Because the lawmakers rising to power are beholden to the propaganda machine that got them there (and probably can blackmail them)
Media companies are for-profit. Their boards and executive leadership are out to make money first, and be a media company second. These days, that means leaning into dopamine-generating sensationalist headlines that elicit strong emotional reactions from readers and viewers. It’s designed, like many other things in our hyper-consumerist society, to be addictive. The truth is often a causality in that dynamic.
The answer is that the 1st amendment makes any such legislation nearly impossible. It’s unfortunate, but there are no easy fixes and that’s probably for the best. We want it to be very difficult to regulate a free press.
Free speech has significant limitations so this is kind of ridiculous. False information under the guise of news is a threat to the safety of citizens and is not a first amendment issue at all.
This pretending a document written by wealthy misogynist slaveholders hundreds of years ago trumps everything is bullocks. We have got to shut this line of thought down or we are going to be stuck with charlatans and 2nd amendment gun nutters forever.
I watched these articles appear in real time streaming Angry Cops live on Yt. There should be some way to prevent such speculative, incendiary, exploitative, under-produced garbage reporting. There was no way that anyone, especially the press had any idea what was going on and just chose to use fear to scare people into clicks. Why can’t we have a truth in reporting legislation where this national enquirer level crap cannot happen without the larger company thinking about their bottom line? Just make them give all their money they made from ads on that bad journalism plus extra to the families they hurt with it.
You know the answer. Because the lawmakers rising to power are beholden to the propaganda machine that got them there (and probably can blackmail them)
It’s simpler than that.
Media companies are for-profit. Their boards and executive leadership are out to make money first, and be a media company second. These days, that means leaning into dopamine-generating sensationalist headlines that elicit strong emotional reactions from readers and viewers. It’s designed, like many other things in our hyper-consumerist society, to be addictive. The truth is often a causality in that dynamic.
The answer is that the 1st amendment makes any such legislation nearly impossible. It’s unfortunate, but there are no easy fixes and that’s probably for the best. We want it to be very difficult to regulate a free press.
Free speech has significant limitations so this is kind of ridiculous. False information under the guise of news is a threat to the safety of citizens and is not a first amendment issue at all.
This pretending a document written by wealthy misogynist slaveholders hundreds of years ago trumps everything is bullocks. We have got to shut this line of thought down or we are going to be stuck with charlatans and 2nd amendment gun nutters forever.
Same for haters of the 2A. The Constitution is, at this time, written in stone, with no chance of changing it.
And a Constitutional Convention, the easiest path, would be a fucking nightmare in this political climate.
I got no answers. And if anyone tells you they got a simple answer? They’re an idiot, an asshole, or likely both.