Chad David Anderson

If all you know is pedantry, you are using a common way of meeting the requirements when challenged for the doctrine itself.

I would be happy to be more informed but you offer nothing.

I am sure you can tell me the cases that brought down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, NPR, VOA, etc.

Stick to one point at a time if you want all addressed. The fairness doctrine required that controversies of public interest be covered and in a fair and balanced way. The typical remedy for violations when I was young was for compensatory time to be provided for opposing viewpoints.

Tell that to the US courts.

There is no lack of access to diverse viewpoints in precisely the same way dozens of people were able to buy access to obscure viewpoints at the downtown newsstand where I grew up while tens of thousands had the conventional wisdom delivered to their door or on their TV.

A ★★ review of Into Pitch Black (2000) I saw all three of the Riddick movies in the theater and would count myself a fan of Pitch Black, the Chronicles of Riddick, and even of Riddick, though I have not seen it since the theater and would ...

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I do not think it would be a cure-all, but it quickly led to a much-worse environment with less public-interest journalism when it was removed. That increasing financial pressures on newsrooms has a long history does not mean it is not a problem that could/should be addressed.

Regulated media monopolies, and public media have been around for a long time in the United States and have withstood First Amendment challenges. The Nichols/McChesney solution for funding journalism via individual choice was designed to avoid infringing on the First Amendment.

What would?

That would be the same ways public media in the US and around the world are insulated from partisan pressures-some sort of institutional arm's length distance between ownership and management and labor. Properly fund a print equivalent to the CPB that manages PBS and NPR.

My point is not to suggest partisan state media but to suggest possible alternatives to the failed monopoly private ownership model.

I suggested regulated monopolies first, but the model of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or the CBC or the BBC applied to newspapers could work. John Nichols and Robert McChesney suggested individual newspape vouchers to cover subscription costs and induce competition.

In the context where broadcasters bid for licenses by including public interest programming and quality journalism was seen as a loss leader, the fairness doctrine incentivized more careful discussion of public issues and less blatant in-your-face partisan lying. It was not a cure-all, by any means.

The federal government needs to enforce antimonopoly law aggressively. The FCC needs to return to the fairness doctrine to encourage public interest journalism. Newspapers should be regulated monopolies or democratic state-owned entities no one can buy. Tax billionaires until they're millionaires.

Billionaires buying up every major news outlet and social media platform to turn them into right wing propaganda machines so they can keep those in power who won't tax their wealth SHOULD TERRIFY EVERY SANE PERSON.

I'm sure what the people at CATO *meant* to say was that the tariffs have "boosted US manufacturing in a way nobody has ever seen before."

Norwegian police search former PM Jagland's properties over Epstein ties Pal Lonseth, chief of the specialised Okokrim economic crimes unit, says Jagland suspected of 'aggravated corruption'.

Pal Lonseth, chief of the specialised Okokrim economic crimes unit, says Jagland suspected of 'aggravated corruption'.

A ★★★★ review of Mandala (1981) 안성기/Ahn Sungki passed away at the start of this year just a few days after his 74th birthday, leaving a big hole in the world. I liked him from the first time I saw him on film, though I unsure what I...

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When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

I was talking about the exact opposite where the 1940s-Kennedy had a top marginal tax rate (as high as 90%+) and sufficient corporate taxes to decrease inequality (the Great Compression) and forge a mass middle class. This was the system Reagan fought against.

"Now the strength of the Communist Party of China does the same for them but without the restraint of liberalism." I would be careful about drawing direct comparisons as the PRC has been under decades following marketization, reform and opening up.

The strength of the CPUSA peaked during the Depression, (plus Popular Front and CIO organizing, and later support for the war). At the same time, the people enacting the agenda had created the New Deal in part by drawing from the program of the Socialist Party of America so it was more complicated.

A ★★★★ review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) This is movie is complex to speak about because it looks very different depending on the perspective you adopt. We wanted to have a good time at the movies on a Sunday afternoon and it was that. Howev...

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This is our ticket from last May when we made it to the theater for the final Mission Impossible movie, Final Reckoning. Incongruently, it was simultaneously a disappointment (relative to its predecessor), a relief in ending the series well), and a good (not great) Mission Impossible movie.

The postwar economy featured much higher taxes, incentivizing reinvestment, which meant hiring and that created demand which created more opportunity for investment in a virtuous cycle.

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

Since Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer any questions... She should go back the Maximum Security Prison till she does!