FCC Commissioner Bashes American Media, Laments Lack of Gov’t Oversight
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FCC Commissioner Michael Copps recently appeared on the BBC to talk about the state of the U.S. media. In the interview, he says the American media has a “bad case of substance abuse” and laments “no oversight of the media.”
Transcript and video via RightScoop:
I think American media has a bad case of substance abuse right now. We are not producing the body of news and information that democracy needs to conduct its civic dialogue. We aren’t producing as much news as we did 5 years, 10 years, 15 years ago. We have to reverse that trend or I think we are going to be pretty close to be denying our citizens the essential news and information that they need to have in order to make intelligent decisions about the future direction of their country.
Right Scoop goes on to explain the interview after the opening response (included in the video above):
He goes on from there to describe how he wants to change it, which is basically to make news more localized to communities rather than the large national entities that we have now. And yes, they do want to regulate content to some degree, as one of his gripes is that there isn’t much investigative journalism in today’s media. He seems to believe that Americans have a right to a certain type of news and it’s the government’s job to provide it.
The LA Times explains Copp‘s beef with big cable networks and the FCC’s “no oversight”:
The FCC has oversight over local TV and radio stations but not the broadcast or cable networks. Local stations get licenses from the commission to operate. Copps wants to toughen up the renewal process, which he says today is a “slam-dunk, no-questions-asked” procedure.
Copps wants stations to commit to covering more debates and issues-oriented programming during election years. He also wants stations to be more in touch with the communities they serve.
Writes Copps: “Nowadays, when stations are so often owned by mega companies and absentee owners hundreds or even thousands of miles away — frequently by private equity firms totally unschooled in public interest media — we no longer ask licensees to take the public pulse. Diversity of programming suffers, minorities are ignored, and local self-expression becomes the exception.”
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Comments (233)
Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:29amWho thinks that it is a good idea for the government to control what news is broadcast to the public? ANY government official who says that they should control the news should be removed from office IMMEDIATELY! What is frightening is that this guy believes that he knows what is best for the American people to watch since obviously we are too stupid to know what we should be watching. People like this are dangerous to our Republic.
Report Post »GrumpyCat
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:28amWho is going to oversee the overseers?
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:24amA press is tool used to squeeze a given material into a desired shape. Our overlords intend on using their press to it’s fullest potential.
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http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com
countryboy42
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:43amIt seems that the term has been changed to “All the news that’s print to fit”
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:24amWere gonna need more Rope…………………………..
Report Post »Race
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:23amAs I recall the media, ie a free press, was supposed to provide oversight on the government, not the other way round. What’s the matter, comrade, not enough propaganda on the airwaves yet? Oh, that’s right. Obama says he has a messaging problem……….
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:23amAttA boy, mr. tyranny… put forth your communist rules.. Here’s an idea, let the liberals get a station and report.. conservatives can‘t help if we actually know where the dial is to change the channel and you liberals are too stupid and say you’re forced to listen…Or is it no one will listen to you anyway so lets take off all right wing radio shows ?? As I said welcome to tyranny ,people..
Report Post »charliego
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:22amPREPARATORY statement! for takeover
Report Post »Perhaps you need to speak with George Soros and his cronies. Then address news outlets who manipulate or present articles-statements of bias otherwise known as ‘yellow journalism’
And, I am a bit confused with the closing statement”…it‘s the government’s job to provide it.” REALLY????? I always thought it was the job of the 4th estate to provide unbiased and truthful information to the public—instead news outlets have become one big OP ED. Journalism is now sensationalism -paparozzi style. Actually, forgive me true journalists out there who work hard to do right by their profession-but you need to do what you can to reclaim dignity and integrity throughout your business and professional entities. thank you
EqualJustice
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:22amAnother socialist IDIOT who wants only a STATE RUN MEDIA. Big BROTHER asks how else can we make these “intelligent decisions about the future direction of our country?“ HAHAHAHA ”MINIMAL ASSERTION”…. isn’t that how it always starts.. with that NUDGE we keep hearing about? Get ready for a federal take over of ALL MEDIA. BEND OVER (or OPEN WIDE SO WE CAN SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT) …. here it comes. It never ends with these people.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:07amTheir message has been soundly rejected by the American people and they believe that force feeding us the message will change our minds. We popularize the news outlets that give us the most trustworthy information which is something the commissioner does not have the ability to understand. The rigid, far left, ideologues appointed by Obama have a mental block to this sort of reasoning. The fascist edict handed down from the State controlled mediate is meant to be an order that we must listen to and believe their doctrine.
Report Post »The fact that these big government demands have never worked historically is completely lost on the Marxist crowd. I believe it must have something to do with that “liberal gene” disorder from which they suffer.
KansasPatriot
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:20amIt is more important than ever that we get these people out of office asap. Mushroom philosophy in this quote: “he wants to make news more localized to communities rather than the large national entities that we have now” is code for keep the little people in the dark and feed them shxt! Oh well, you get the message. NEVER let them take away our First Amendment rights to communicate with one and other…
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:00amAh, but you see, how do you get a Czar out of office? They’re appointed by fiat, not elected.
Back in FDR’s days, they were called Dictators by FDR himself. Glowingly even.
This is the new reality folks. Welcome to actual real tyranny.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:18amFCC has Net Neutrality vote set for Dec. 21st…….they are going around Congress
Report Post »charliego
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:45am@EP46
Report Post »How do we combat this? EPA and other entities of the government can bypass Congress now with independent decisions—all the czars etc. We are being betrayed by our own government! GB is soooo correct. It is coming to pass and so obviously apparent now. ‘upside down, downside up, and inside out’. I just finished reading ‘The Coming Insurrection’ by the invisible committee. It made me sick to my stomach—I felt like I had fallen down the rabbit hole with projected nightmares to come.
My husband just told me a friend of his said ‘they are going to do what they want-regardless. I am to old to fight it anymore’ I told my husband I will fight to the bitter end. Another little anecdote: my husband told another of his friends about George Soros’ M.O. The guy laughed and told my husband he was full of—well, you know. My husband then said, ‘look him up-don’t take my word for it.’ ANYONE HEAR AN ECHO HERE? That is my mantra to all my friends since first absorbing those words. A week later my husband ran into this friend who stated he did some homework–I won’t repeat his assessment of his research as told to me by my husband. It wasn’t pretty—-referencing his new found information. thank you
I pray we are not too late.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:58amWho is surprised by this? We’re to be ruled by a hose of petty czars, all of whom answer directly, and only, to the head tyrant in the Oval Office. This has been done by design, and it has been pretty much openly talked about for at least the last 2 years. And now, we’ll get to see it in action.
Prior to the November elections I recall mentioning that once the Dems lost complete control, that Obama would turn to the Czar cadre.
This is a dictatorship guys. For real. Whether “they” vote on it or not is irrelevant, they are not accountable to anybody but Der Fuhrer.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:01amhose = host
Report Post »Midwest Belle
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:17amSince when is the Blaze biased? They report news that NO ONE ELSE is reporting on. Keep it up Blaze!
Report Post »justsaying
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:02pmIt is the other media outlets that are biased. They only report what they want, give it the spin they want, and ignore the rest.
Report Post »bburgdaddyo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:17am“…one of his gripes is that there isn’t much investigative journalism in today’s media.” That’s because the media as a whole is too lazy to do it right and back up anything with facts. Now, I know Glenn Beck professes not to be a journalist, but there is no one doing more factual investigation than him. And, of course, this tool has to run to the BBC in order to complain.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:15amTHE BUREAUCRACY:
When the Bureaucrat replaces the “free market” with a regulation, we all lose. Every regulation gives a political crony a windfall at the expense of the general population. Printing money is not the only cause of inflation!
If you believe that the tyrants act in the best interest of the individual, consider the following quote:
“If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? Don’t you see that they must capture the government, in order not to be restrained too much by it? Must capture the government? They have already captured it.”
The quote is from an early wannabe tyrant, Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Since then each encroachment on our individual liberty has caused problems that have been used to justify more tyranny.
Rules and regulations created and enforced by the “Fourth Branch of Government” (the bureaucracy) that restrict innovation, inhibit the creation of wealth and provide advantages to the “technologically challenged” are the root cause of our problems. Inflation, credit and failure of financial institutions are just the symptoms, an attempt to cover up the failure of “disastrous centralized planning.”
Money manipulation is simply a method of misappropriation of wealth. Wealth must be created before it can be misappropriated and the Bureaucracy inhibits the creation of wealth.
Our problems started when the bureaucracy obtained significant power during Roosevelt’s (T) Administration. About 10 years later the Fed Was created and it’s been downhill every since.
Chapter 8 (The Bureaucracy – ICC) of “21st Century Common Sense” addresses this point in detail, including a description of the “Iron Triangle” (control of the bureaucracy by special interest) and an enlighten quote by Woodrow Wilson highlighting the capture of the Bureaucracy by “special interest.”
The bibliography on my website allows you to visit the websites used for the book’s research just by “control-clicking” on the website address. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »EP46
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:15amNet Neutrality…..then all media. Then we can listen to Radio Free Iran
Report Post »To take over a country, you must control the new outlets…radio, tv, internet
They are doing it.
Vickie Dhaene
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:15amSomeone please explain to me how a non-US citizen can claim he has 1st amendment rights from our constitution to print the scum that they do. Aren’t those right reserved for US Citizens?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:35amI’ll answer your question when you explain to me why under the Obama admin enemy combatants are read Miranda rights.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:49amOk, I’ll explain it.
The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights were recognized by the Founders as rights belonging to all men. The distinction they make is that THEY erected a government to safeguard those rights. However “All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights…“ not ”All Americans/Our Countryment are created equal and endowed…”.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:54amThe Dems’ think they know what is best for all, not just Americans. They believe that since they are compassionate to the downtrodden, they can also extend their will to all Earth-bound creatures. They think they are already a ‘global government’.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:43amNo; the 4th amendment extends to pretty much everyone on US soil–as far as enemy combatants, it seems wrong they should be extended these rights unless they are on US soil at the time of the ‘combat’. Combat may have to be clarified also.
Report Post »WVdad
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:32pmThese communist are not compationate to anyone, thats just how they get the liberals to follow them
Report Post »WVdad
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:34pmThey use the good will of americans and of our constitution against us
Report Post »Gas137
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:15amWe get more useful information in The Blaze than in all the major public media and National Public Radio combined.
Report Post »abc
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:01pmthat’s a good one…
Report Post »Spiny Norman
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:22pmThat’s one of many reasons why the FCC also wants to regulate the Internet.
Report Post »the zipper
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:14amHe just not hearing/seeing what he wants to hear. I live in a mid size market. There is feverored competition for viewers of local news from the four broadcasters. We get plenty of local and state news. There is plenty of investigative reporting as well. The progressives are just throwing everything they can against the wall to move the Pemberton Windown on this issue.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:13amanother dam zcar………………….defund and ship him off with the rest of the tools
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:13amWhy don’t they regulate trash on TV that is saturated if he is so worried about it?
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:11am“PREPONDERANCE OF PROPAGANDA”!
Report Post »Another example of the “preponderance of propaganda”! The wannabe tyrants and their cronies are publicizing lies, half-truths and the irrelevant to avoid a discussion of the issues. Pay no attention to the smokescreen.
When the premise is false the only arguments that can be used are fear mongering, emotion, sarcasm, ridicule, attacking the messenger and misrepresentation of the facts (lying). Those who expect to reap huge profits from our misery caused by tyranny are experts at these tactics.
The only relevant issue is freedom or tyranny!!!! http://commonsense21c.com/
untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:37amActually I have to agree with him on one thing. There is not enough investigating journalism going on. How many news organizations investigated Obama during his run for potus. You only heard anything if you watched the opinion shows or listened to conservative talk radio the ‘news’ shows said nothing. Did anyone hear about ANY of the new laws that our lame duck congress is rushing through before January? The news does need to do some investigating, not only on republicans and the tea party but across the board. Every thing else was crap.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:13pmUntamable Kate,
Report Post »You picked up on what I also thought. Yes, we definitely need journalism to return to its investigative roots. Why haven’t the liberal/progressive news media and even FOX gone after Obama’s eligibility–and I don’t mean his birth certificate. He has dual citizenship, and that alone makes him ineligible. Why hasn’t the news media gone after George Soros, not to mention the corrupt networking of communist organizations? This guy wants to establish Kremlin-style news, where news is only what the government wants to tell the people. And, have you noticed how progressives/liberals always accuse conservatives of only listening to one side of the story, when in reality, it is they who only want to hear/read/listen to one side? Just by saying something over and over, they think it makes it true. Unfortunately, there are Americans who hear this and have come to believe it. Liberals/progressives cannot, evidently, think for themselves.
mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:09amYou know these are the ones that need to be shot.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:12amI’m kinda partial to a rope and a lamp post.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:59amPersonal preference of mine is hot tar and feathers while tied to a railpost and run out of town; with a pack of rabid squirrels dancing around him, and vultures circling about.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:13pmRope is biodegradable and re-cyclical.
Report Post »Doug
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:09amCan we vote him out too?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:12amnope he is appointed
Report Post »MGB-CPA
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:28amMaybe we can tar & feather him, or make msnbc hire him.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:38amHe should be dis-appointed, I know I am.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:08amFREEDOM OF THE PRESS! Don’t mess with OUR rights!!!
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:45amI agree.
this is shullbit.
disband the FCC.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:10pmThis is along the same line as Sen. Rockefeller’s recent lament about the cable news networks. Ultimate goal: Pravda, baby!
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:57pmWatch for them to ram this through before the changing of the Guard in January
Report Post »REVENANT
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:07amThere’s just no enogh Communist Propaganda for his liking.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:27amThis guy is just upset that the government keeps getting it’s hand caught in the cookie-jar. Isn’t it ironic how Wikileaks was not dealt with while they were exposing the military, which Democrats would love to be rid of, but they acted only after their internal memos and cables were leaked.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:30amYeah, ratings at MSNBC and the former ‘Air America’ show just how successful Communist/Socialist propaganda programming can be. If we won’t willingly submit, they will force us…1984?
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:39amI’d like them to start a Govt sponsored program, with the understanding that funding would cease in six months, after which its survival would depend on the free market. I’m betting it would soon be history and put an end to such nonsense.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:06amYes comrade, bend over.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:16amYeah, scr*w you.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:17amNo oversight of American media?
Actually there is, it is called the people of America deciding who to watch and when to watch them, or not watch them. This man is spewing the soon to be happening implementation of the Progressives net neutrality and fairness doctrine. The “do this or we shut you down for good by force” methodology.
They seek to implement that which the people, the congress and the courts all have declared to be illegal and illegitimate across the board.
Beck is right about one thing, we are a country hooked on material possessions, and we need to be ready for a loss of the stuff not essential to our lives; my TV destructed over a year ago, and I have gottten to the point again where it honestly does not matter. I have a radio and the internet – for now.
At the very least, the no having of cable means I get to save money, and not have people wanting to watch their sports shows knocking on my door to “let you know the games are on…”
Ugh.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:19amPublic Interest Media – is this what the KGB once referred to as State Sponsored Propaganda…”You will obey, you will submit, you will comply, you will wash my car and make me a sandwich…you put poison in my sandwich…(thud)
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:23amRight On Snow! WE THE PEOPLE will decide which news is fit to read/watch/listen to.
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:31amYes, I need big bro to spoon feed me for the rest of my life because I have no ability to make decision on what I watch, eat, drink, search for on the internet… Thanks gubby, you’re my hero, without you I’d be clueless.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:41amFrom the Bill of Rights:
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”
The purpose of this law is to keep government from controlling the media, and so Net Neutrality, or the Fairness Doctrine, “oversight”, or whatever form government control of the media takes, is unConstitutional.
The People get to decide what kinds of news or non-news they want to listen to, not the government. Otherwise, you have governments telling companies what to air on their programs, which violates our unalienable right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If you want your message heard, then you go out and tell people. No one has a right to tell anyone what messages they are to air or display.
If I want to be fair and balanced, that’s my right – I’ll probably get a lot of trust, and therefore more advertising revenue. If I want to lie to the people, that is also my right – I’ll probably lose a lot of trust, especially when the right to freedom of speech allows someone else to expose my lies.
And if I want to open or close my ears to the truth, then that is also my right.
The point is, the government abandons its oath to the Constitution when it tries to pass or enforce government control/regulation of speech or the media.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:41amWhen is this guy going to be fired? the congress should pass a law that states “no regulation put forth by any bureaucrat or federal agency will be implemented by the agency without congressional approval” stop these unelected and mostly stupid people from imposing there views and beliefs on the citizens of this country.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:53amso he (they) think we are receiving too much information. Control the info flow by having the govt regulate it. Did I say that right? When the govt controls (censures) the news, it’s over.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:55amIn other words, they want the state to control what you watch, when you watch it, and how long you watch it. No thanks, I can decide for myself what to watch and what to believe after I have researched the information.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:04am“We have to reverse that trend or I think we are going to be pretty close to be denying our citizens the essential news and information that they need to have in order to make intelligent decisions about the future direction of their country.”
Nobody’s denying the citizens anything. If the People want something they’ll go get it.
Further, the media have a right to free speech as well, so the media doesn‘t have to air anything they don’t want to.
The People get to decide what is “essential”, not the government. The government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:10amAdd your comments
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:13amAll media coverage great and small; are run by the the ‘elite’ mobs, who allow certain tidbits of information to be told……their way; or no way!!
Regulations and the “actual” Police State we are currently experiencing, have been visiting us for quite some time; just itchin’ for a conflict large enough to excuse themselves for implementing martial law!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:13am“Copps wants stations to commit to covering more debates and issues-oriented programming during election years. He also wants stations to be more in touch with the communities they serve”
Who the hell do these appointed czars think they are? Its not their job to tell people what to talk about, and nobody should stand for them having any authority to do any of this.
Report Post »Compete or Lose
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:22am.
.
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He doesnt like that the people he regulates cant compete with people he doesnt regulate…..
What he doesnt understand is that the PEOPLE are deciding what they prefer—-it is called FREEDOM OF CHOICE—and that is what our bureacratic pinhead doesnt like.
The Obama admin seems to be upset when the media they control has to compete in the market of FREE THOUGHT–so they bash FREEDOM OF CHOICE and the BASH –WE THE PEOPLE for beind too STUPID to understand their ELITE INSIGHT into what is BEST FOR us STUPID people.
At BEST it is OFFENSIVE
At WORST it is SOCIALIST
THEY DIDNT HEAR —WE THE PEOPLE last month when we voted—–
IF THEY THINK NOVEMBER was a SHELACKING—-
Just wait until 2012
Good luck
RGS
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:22amPravda !!!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:42amAnd thats how it is supposed to be Nimrod ( Michael Copps), that our free, unhindered, unbiased media is the fourth arm of Government. But like the remained of our “Marinette government”, it is compromised by socilists.
Report Post »But the media of old has grown mold, the truth untold because to socilism sold our national soul, lets roll. Our Government, is doing precisely what histroy has shown us as the definitive start to the decline and death of a Republic, to circumnavigate the “illusionary congress” and to impliment “regulatory” restraint, arbitrary and freedom reducing “guidelines”, and to govern by mandate and not by law. We have a Unique oppertunity hear my fellows, because we have this device, the internet, we have access to truth, and discorse, and knowlege that if utilized correctly can reverse the course of the ship of State, but we must at some point act to defend her, let us choose that moment with great care, much prayer, and only after making sure our own house’s are in righteous order.
APatriotFirst
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:18pmLest we forget the last people placed on the Supreme Court?
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:12pmHey SNOW just like Venzeula?
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:19pmMr Copps is dangerous. Republicans should call him up to the hill and rake him over the coals like no one has ever been raked before. The left is way, way more political in their reporting. In fact they tend to just report opinion and out and out lies. They are the ones we need to be protected from. So be careful what you wish Mr Copps, you may not like the ultimate out came.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoEUTqhYmA
abc
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:23pmThis is a tough one. Conservatives here are correct that freedom of the press and speech were rightfully framed to avoid gov’t censorship–too bad they don’t defend it when the speech is unpopular with conservatives themselves, but that is another story–and their worries about government intrusion are well founded. However, there is something insidious going on when large groups of people selectively take their news from media that systematically lies and distorts reality to fit a particular narrative. This is especially problematic on the right, since research studies clearly show that conservatives take their news from a more limited set of sources that tend to reinforce what they already believe. This is a problem in a democracy when a large voting block has wrong information and influences policy based upon that wrong information–garbage information in, garbage policy out. I do not know what the solution is.
This touches very profound philosophical issues. The underlying assumption in America is that when people are most free they are best. However, there are many great thinkers that have warned against being utopian about freedom. Aristotle argued that virtue came from habit, which meant following an imposed discipline of what was good. He would see no problem with limiting freedoms in order to achieve virtue. Of course, his teacher Socrates did not seek authority to impose right thinking on his fellow citizens. He merely wandered around asking questions and using facts and logic to prove that most people didn’t know what they were talking about. His solution, which would seem to fit in better with an American style democracy, unfortunately does not have a promising ending. Socrates was executed by the most democratic government of ancient times, as his fellow Athenians ordered him to take his own life with hemlock. Apparently, expecting people to freely accept that their long-held beliefs and opinions are wrong when confronting them with valid but counter factual and logical evidence is rather naive. Either you force them to somehow abandon those beliefs or you suffer the bad consequences of people making bad decisions, empowering bad leaders, etc.
I do not know what the solutions. But seeing all the incorrect and factually wrong statements being made at this site–not to mention the reems of incorrect garbage uttered on Fox, MSNBC and the like–I am not encouraged at all that our democracy can function properly. It gives the moronic masses way too much credit.
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Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:48pmLet’s see if I have this right…he wants the ol style barber shop feedback so they can know exactly what the people want, thus making it easier to design and manipulate the propoganda to tell us what we want to hear, simple, forget the fact that the media, fox that is, in a market driven free enterprise.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:52pmOk, lets talk about how this all turns out. The Bible says this….”all the world will whore after him(antichrist)” It does not say that we will defeat him, It says that Christ and his army will. I’m not saying we should not resist, just that we should not think that we (men) are equipped. The whole scenario is to prove each of us worthy to stand with Christ as He defeats death, once and for all.
Report Post »These will be the darkest days in the history of the earth. The ONLY light will be God’s own.
“For lack of Knowledge my children are lost.” That is our light in these times, knowledge!
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Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:22pmhttp://www.infowars.com/arrest-assange-arrest-the-banksters-instead/
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