Title is a little clickbaity seeing as this is specific to a local Philadelphia station. Would be nice if this was true though. There are really no consequences at all for making shit up.
There are no consequences for just about anything if you have enough money :)
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Both countries are and have been run by the same class of people. Nothing has changed.
They literally won a court case about being able to lie as a news organization, they made that possible so don’t hold you breath
AFAIK they didn’t – instead they said they were an entertainment org instead of a news org.
We’ve unfortunately decided as a society to leave consequences to the state. The state is by and for capitalists only (i.e. capital owners, not you). When Fox is a threat to capitalist’s money and power, they’ll see real consequences, until then, probably not.
Yes please. Go after OAN and RT too, these are all intelligent propaganda machines that need to be stopped. It’s really hard to believe we just let it go.
OAN and RT are not on FCC airwaves. They are on cable TV and internet. These lawsuits are for Fox affiliates that use licensed FCC tv frequencies.
Edit: I just found out that that’s not true for political broadcasts.
(a) The Commission may revoke any station license or construction permit –
(7) for willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access to or to permit purchase of reasonable amounts of time for the use of a broadcasting station, other than a non-commercial educational broadcast station, by a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office on behalf of his candidacy.
Huh, weird rules and what does “bona-fide” mean in this instance?:
Q: Does the FCC regulate the content of cable programming?
A: Cable television system operators generally make their own selection of channels and programs to be distributed to subscribers in response to consumer demands. The Commission does, however, have rules in some areas that are applicable to programming – called “origination cablecasting” in the rules – that are subject to the editorial control of the cable system operator. The rules generally do not apply to the content of broadcast channels or to access channels over which the cable system operator has no editorial control.
Q: What is the “equal opportunities” rule of political cablecasting?
A: Once a cable system allows a legally qualified candidate to use its facilities (by identifiable voice or picture), it must give “equal opportunities” to all other legally qualified candidates for that office to use its facilities. The cable system can not censor the content of the candidate’s material in any way, and can not discriminate between candidates in practices, regulations, facilities or services rendered pursuant to the equal opportunities rules.
Candidates must submit requests for equal opportunities to the cable system within one week after a rival candidate’s first use of the cable system. If the person was not a legally qualified candidate at the time of the rival’s first use, he or she may submit a request within one week of the rival’s next use of the cable system after he or she becomes a legally qualified candidate.
Q: Does a legally qualified candidate’s appearance on a newscast trigger the equal opportunities rule?
A: No. Candidate appearances that are exempt from the rules include appearances on a bona fide newscast, bona fide news interview, bona fide news documentary, or on-the-spot coverage of a bona fide news event.
My guess is that there is no set standard in law. When you deny someone else “equal opportunity “ they can challenge the denial to the FCC and in court. Whoever loses the FCC appeal files a federal lawsuit. Then it would be based on case law for the definition of bona fide in similar cases and, barring that, similar usage of the term. You duke it out with $1000/hr lawyers in federal court for 2-3 rounds until the most recent loser appeals to the Supreme Court where they turn youdown or you argue if the FCC even has the power to compel such an “equal opportunity “ based on the law which allows the rule to be written.
At least that’s my layman’s understanding of the process.
I would literally drink a gallon of pants and shit my beer if that happened 🤣
How many pants are in a gallon?
Depending on your emulsion technique I’m guessing one or two? When Fox News is off the air I’ll update you and let you know what I figured out 🤣
No it doesn’t. Be real.
Its not against the law to do what they are thanks to Reagan.
We should require PSAs at the end of all TikTok/Instagram/Youtube social media videos like they had at the end of cartoons when I was a whee PĒB.
And FOX newscasters should have to dress up as Hanna Barbera characters while on screen.
They should have to dress up like the clowns they are. Oh, and they should have to register their look/persona in the clown database (no idea what the formal name is).
Maybe a laughing track would help as well?
When George W Bush stole the election in 2000 with the Brooks Brothers Riot I knew the conservatives days were numbered.
man, I wonder what the world would look like today without a second bush presidency
But I thought Fox News sold off its channels to Disney.
There’s Fox “News” and 20c Fox/Fox Sports etc.Technically started in the same place, but the non-news side got sold off.
No, the fox news channels and fox business was not part of that acquisition. Channels like FX and National Geographic films that were made by 21st Century Fox were part of the acquisition.
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Just change the channel and lets not destroy the freedom of the press in our lifetime
And the people who don’t change the channel, believe the lies, and attack others because of it? The people who are emboldened in their racism because of Fox and those they support? The people who have an inaccurate world view because they believe the lies passed off as “entertainment” and opinion, but are called news? Tucker Carlson argued and won with the argument that no reasonable person would believe a thing he said and yet, he was one of their most popular segments. You really think we can just bury our heads in the sand with something like that?
By their own admission, they are entertainment not press. They are the television equivalent of screaming fire in a crowded theater.
