What I’m saying is a byproduct of the fairness doctrine was real-time fact checking. I’m not saying that was the intention but it would be very useful today. People sit through hour after hour of totally false narratives that mostly make people afraid and feel under attack. And, I’m not sure if there are a higher percentage of “idiot” people today so much as there is now a feedback mechanism in the Internet to confirm lies and paranoia. The media “machine” is a lot more powerful today. It’s an awful situation we are in with people just getting sucked an abyss of dark paranoia.
I would agree, something definitely needs to change. Will it? No. They'll write some bullshit bill, open to interpretation as always, largely unenforceable as always, and call it some kind of moral victory. It's political baby, lies and misinformation are the oil that lubes the system. In fact, the current system breaks down completely without it. They ain't going to let that happen. Next thing you'll be expecting them to pass term limits on themselves.
If we didn’t have so much gerrymandering you’d worry a lot less about term limits because politicians would more serve their district than their party.
I thought you cared about facts? Fact is, even if you could pass the fairness doctrine through both houses by some miracle, SCOTUS would strike it down.
Those in charge: SCOTUS, Military Generals, Federal Officials, have nothing to gain from an insurrection. Read my lips: They all want to maintain the status quo. Or, at the least, institute changes that don't diminish their current status. I suspect they would be receptive to the changes I spoke of ... as they would also be the direct beneficiaries. BTW: They also don't want clowns storming their workplaces.
Imagine Trump 2.0 wins again, and Ajit Pai 2.0 is running the FCC again and can dictate what the NYT can and cannot print based on the FCC's rules of what "facts" are.
We all can imagine. But how could Trump win ... if bullshit was disallowed? And if bullshit is banned, and Trump wins anyway, then that's the point where we're fucked, not due to subsequent FCC regulation changes.