There are 3 problems with our media that are fueling polarization: 1. The closing of 2,000 local papers, which are typically not very partisan; 2. Cable news maximizing audience share by adopting political stances (Fox); and 3. Social media’s supercharging of conspiracy theories.
— Andrew Yang??? (@AndrewYang) January 7, 2021
For Cable News we should revive the Fairness Doctrine which the FCC had on the books until 1985 that required that you show both sides of a political issue. It was repealed by Reagan. If there was ever a time to bring it back it’s now.
— Andrew Yang??? (@AndrewYang) January 7, 2021
His first Tweet shows why these people do not want fairness.
They always reference Fox news when they talk about media bias.
They never call out CNN for, say, having Chris Cuomo spend night after night interviewing Andrew Cuomo during the height of the COVID pandemic with the most softball questions.
If New York was a country, it would have the highest COVID death rate of any nation in the world. Andrew Cuomo is responsible for that.
Florida, despite having an older (and therefore more at-risk demographic) population than New York, had a COVID death rate below the national average. This was Ron DeSantis’ doing.
If you watched only CNN, you would be convinced that it was exactly the opposite, but that is not an indication of bias.
A study from Harvard showed that CNN spent about 65% of its time covering Trump and 90% of that coverage was negative.
But no, the problem is Fox.
The fairness doctrine won’t force CNN to be 50% positive on a future Republican president. It would only force Fox to spend half its time (or more) sounding like CNN.
That’s not fairness. It’s state-mandated Prolefeed.
Yang is wrong, beginning with his first point: “…local papers, which are typically not very partisan…”
I don’t know of a non-partisan local paper. I do know that my local paper – ‘The Huntsville Times’, was a rabidly Democrat paper (in a red city in a red county in a red state) that has thankfully mostly gone out of business (it’s now ‘AL.com’ along with several other rabidly Democrat local papers). I was happy to see those crappy ‘journalists’ go away.
Someone needs to ask Yang if that means we can reconvert one or more of the MSM outlets to conservative viewpoints, since we only have one major one (Fox) versus ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN…
FCC has no power over cable, and the removal of the “Fairness” Doctrine was what created AM talk radio. This guy’s supposed to be an intellectual heavyweight on the left?
He is, compared to the others. 🙂
“…and the removal of the ‘Fairness’ Doctrine was what created AM talk radio…”
As far as the left is concerned, if the fairness doctrine is restored, the end of AM talk radio is a feature not a bug.
Who will be the arbiter of what constitutes fair coverage of political issues? What exactly will be the standard?
Ever watch The View? There is a reason why it is not called The Views.
Compare the coverage of a President’s speech on the various networks. If the President is democrat, the speech was brilliant, inspiring, sent from the Lord himself. If the President is Republican, it is nothing but racist diatribe, full of hate and calling his followers to violence. Both Presidents could have read the same speech, and the coverage would mimic that.
Conservatives are no longer going to get a fair shake. There is no outlet to share our views that is free and open. Even if conservatives start up their own cable channels, or internet sites, what is going to force the providers to carry it? If Google is free to determine what content can pass through their servers, what are the odds a conservative news outlet will be allowed to do so? (CTH was deplatformed a short while ago. How long before GFZ gets banned?)
Let this Yang guy say or do whatever he wants. There will be no way to disagree.
It’s all propaganda garbage, just different flavors of it (and they’re not all that different when it comes to issues like warmongering or austerity). Both Fox and CNN, as well as MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, and so on and so on, are all loathsome.
And does it not perhaps occur to you that when someone gets constant overwhelmingly negative coverage, maybe, just maybe, it’s because there’s an overwhelming amount of negative things about them? Your retarded manbaby president is genuinely the worst, most incompetent leader this nation has ever had. And there’s some pretty stiff competition for that title.
Your little treason larp failed, and Il Douche will be gone in a couple weeks.
And then you’ll continue to make dozens of stupid posts a day amply demonstrating exactly why everything said about Fox and the right wing echo-chamber is correct. This is genuinely the most politically illiterate and factually ignorant corner of the internet I’ve ever come across. It’s like fractally stupid: zoom in on any specific post and it perfectly reflects in its minute stupidity the stupidity of the blog as a whole.
You don’t know anything, about anything, and have zero desire to learn, yet are fully convinced of your own brilliance and depth of knowledge.
Adding steroids to an ad hominem attack doesn’t make it any more effective or connect it any more to reality.