Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Why lawyers?
Thinking about those lawyers who write on Quora. Why do I appreciate them? Because they’re OBJECTIVE. Other professions sometimes write ‘out of character’, but other professions never manage the same degree of objectivity. Academics never bash tenure outside the ivied walls**. Politicians never reveal real secrets. Journalists never tell the truth about the permanent idiocy…
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Good.
Earlier I was hoping that Substack would respond in a firm adult way to the attempted witch hunt by ex-Twitterites. Now founder Hamish has done exactly the right thing with this Note. He hits all the necessary points and declares all the necessary values, precisely in the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine.
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Maybe too fair
Via Eurekalert. = = = = = START QUOTE: Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found…
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How to increase trust
Spokane News posted one of our multiple daily overdose deaths, then added this explanation: Yes, this happens a lot in the area. True, we do not post them all. We posted this as it was called out as a cardiac arrest which calls for a very large response so we post to avoid the area.…
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Must be a new century
The ACLU supported an unfashionable cause exactly once in its nasty tyrannical history, and has been riding on its fake reputation as a paragon of fairness and balance ever since. Now they’re supporting an unfashionable cause again! GetReligion explores the mystery. The well-known Christian group Wallbuilders tried to sell an ad to the DC transit…
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Trying another converger
So far all the alleged “real news” providers have quickly converged to Deepstate. Most showed their true colors almost immediately. I’ll give Tucker Carlson a chance. He’s starting with the correct business model, purely subscription, no advertising. Ad-based media has NEVER been conducive to real news. Ad-based newspapers were always one-sided. When commercial radio started…
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Before the Fairness Doctrine
American Radio Library has added a long booklet written by WGN in Chicago, providing a deep portrait of the purposes and intentions of broadcasters in 1928. At that point most stations were still run by stores advertising their own products, or by colleges or tech schools using the broadcast for training and ‘extension’. The authors…
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Fairness Doctrine by accident
At various times I’ve stupidly donated to both D and R candidates. I think the most recent D was Tulsi when she was a fake D. Being on the email list of both teams provides a simulation of the Fairness Doctrine, with equal time for both campaigns. I get the same emails from random candidates…
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Reminds me…
This Brit pollster is talking about the complete loss of trust in media and politics. Also applies to every other institution, churches, schools, big business. Reminds me of an old Kingston Trio song. Every word is still precisely valid. The media side has been going on longer than the others, and SHOULD have offered a…
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Hollywood still isn’t learning
Celebrities who dare to question war are being kicked out. Dammit, ordinary people are tired of all this shit. Wars, “viruses”, “genders”, “racism”, all isms. Tired of politicians who destroy the world instead of solving problems. Hollywood, your job is ENTERTAINMENT. You’re not supposed to add more shit. You’re supposed to provide RELIEF from the…
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Master class
In this live segment Tiffany is unintentionally giving a Master Class in real journalism. She illustrates the correct characteristics and behaviors and forms of thinking. Wide open about her own biases and preferences, willing to get deeply personal with sources, always keeping the facts STRICTLY separate from all personalities and preferences. If any professional journalists…
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Another trust restorer
Sailer points to a university president who has learned the Bud Light lesson. When you’re running a business or a college or a government, your SOLE goal is serving your employees and customers. The business or college or government has specific well-defined products. Beer or research or safe neighborhoods. As long as you work SOLELY…
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FD = GS
I’ve probably written this before, but feels like a good time to write it again. The Fairness Doctrine was directly parallel to Glass-Steagall. Both New Deal laws tried to separate frauds from honest business. FD forced broadcasters to avoid partisan disputes and devote a certain amount of time to public service. GS forced banks to…
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New breed?
Random thought, probably wrong. The Sammy trial is giving birth to a new breed of journalists in the same way that Watergate and OJ caused major shifts in the field. The new breed has to get along without all their usual hardware, which is banned in the courtroom. They watch the trial, some in the…
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Auctions
Activists are constantly complaining about censorship and canceling. I’ve never been excited about those topics because I recognize that censorship is the default. Censorship is another name for editing. Publishers always choose what to publish. I realized much earlier that canceling is rarely what it appears. An executive who is fired for “political” reasons is…
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