‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang
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I think a lot of people assume that had it stuck around it would have eventually been applied to cable. But cable was a big new thing at the end of the 1970s early 1980s. Specifically because it didn't have a lot of the regulation and restrictions that broadcast did.
I think a lot of people would have also assumed that the ERA would have been ratified by now. Or that a woman's right to abortion would have been enshrined in law by now. But that didn't happen either. So it's never good to assume.
And then the real rub, what actually constitutes a Viewpoint worthy of being heard. Yes the fairness Doctrine was supposed to give other viewpoints air time. And it did. But not all of them. Fox News in fact was really good with this formula. Early Fox News often tried to provide the appearance of that sort of balance. Toe-headed Sean Hannity did not have his own show for a long long time. Granted the show was his in all but name. But for a long time he was saddled with a limp wet noodle Democrat. Who was little more than a foil for Sean to stomp over. But Alan Combs did provide some token Democrat views and pushback.
The equal representation was only as good as the honesty and the sincerity of the people behind allowing it. Which was often quite dubious itself.
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If it is interpreted in malicious intent, that is indeed how a fairness doctrine can be abused.
For instance during Covid in German public broadcasters, far right politicians and conspiracy theorists were given disproportionately much screen time and often not followed by fact checking. So if you have 70% science based and 30% lies and deceptions, at the end the lies will make up 70% of what the audience receives.
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Great write up. The Fairness Doctrine on its own definitely wouldn't solve everything. It'd be a step in the right direction, but the journey would be far from over. edit: and there's probably no "perfect" solution.
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Finally some good news
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This is one of the most level headed comments on Lemmy I’ve seen.
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How can a public trial be held in secret? I can understand that any agreement can also include NDAs but I wasn't aware that any US court could adjudicate in secret.
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Never before, have I been so offended by something I agree with 100%
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I think we would have been better off had it stuck around as well. But I also think that we've somewhat arrived at the best of all situations. Where access to Media is much more democratized. You don't have to rely on a big wealthy owner Etc allowing your Viewpoint to be heard. The modern problem is AI generated fire hoses of disinformation. They can output so much more misinformation through seemingly so many more Outlets than an actual person can. So it's going to rely on a lot more word of mouth and Trust. People finding good journalists and presenters like coffee Zilla for instance and sharing them with others to help build up trusted networks of Representatives.
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The original laws were written in broadcast days. Even if we had it today, so many people get their news from privately produced videos that there'd always be a huge number of deliberately uninformed people.
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W [email protected] shared this topic
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It was family court. Meaning theres privacy to internal family matters
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It says if he lives to be 99 in 2030 when the trust expires he can then again cut the other kids out. May his health fade quickly for everyone’s sake
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And in its place Musk has his own now.
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::: spoiler Fairness Doctrine (wikipedia)
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
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You might want to look up a movie called "Network.'
It went from cutting edge satire to staid docudrama in real time.
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Reading the plot of the film on Wikipedia reminds me i might have seen it once. This film ends on : "This was the story of Howard Beale: the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."
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I wish nothing but pain for this fuckhead. May he develop dementia and circle the drain for years, living in a puddle of his own mess, then die alone and sobbing the day before he would get the power to dissolve the trust.
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A couple weeks or months would be better, that way they can't pretend that he lived just long enough to sign it over.
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Europe here, what's a family court?
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I think if it’d stayed, we’d have been talking about applying it to cable, rather than just forgetting it existed in the first place.
There’s certainly no direct link, but I think it indirectly changed the conversation around what society deemed acceptable in news media.
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I don't think that's how it works, but I am not a lawyer.
Initially, I reached the same conclusion, but by the sounds of it, once the trust expires it simply means that the kids can now sell the stocks or do whatever they want freely. I think they don't lose control of the stocks and if anything, they actually start to enjoy more control or at least freedom.
But again, I am not a lawyer.
