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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Come now Thorn, you know common regressionists can spam all on their own.
Romney's "Binder full of women" story turns out to be bullshit.
I think I'm beyond laughter. He tells a condescending story about how he's sooooo supportive of women's rights and equal wages, hitting on many really bad stereotypes in the process (and furthermore resulting in him de facto claiming that he practices affirmative action, which a large portion of republicans hate), and it turns out to be a lie.
There was nothing in that story which will help Romney.
In the UK, Ofcom would be all over that so fast, you would hear a sonic boom. True, it doesn't have much in the way of teeth, but that allows other media arms to seriously have a field day ripping the offender to more shreds than you can make tatting out of.
Enough breaches like that, however, and the channel can get their licence to broadcast revoked.
edited 17th Oct '12 1:42:12 PM by Euodiachloris
Unfortunately, no, it's perfectly legal to falsify news in this country, mainly because we don't have a law against it. We can make a petition, but that's about it.
edited 17th Oct '12 1:47:29 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Not really. It's not illegal to lie like that on tv or radio, so long as it's not slanderous, and whenever any news group tries to call fox out, they stamp their feet and act like they're being persecuted.
CNN definitely won't help, they keep hiring fox news castoffs.
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I guess you could send emails to MSN, CNN, etc. but I doubt they'd report on it and even if they did people that actually watch Fox News wouldn't care since it's "liberal bias."
Now this is why we need some kind of government authority that regulates whether or not news organizations are telling the truth. I know, police state, but whatever. They can't be allowed to do this! Any other system we institute will have problems true but it's not like this current system doesn't have terrible ones too.
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Didn't some court give Fox News the right to lie under free speech or something?
edit: About the only thing I can think of who would have some authority to stop them is the government but we all know what Fox thinks of that.
Now this would be a lot easier if they were just some fringe news station but they're not. They have tons of people that treat their word as gospel. About the only thing we can do is make individual people realize.
edited 17th Oct '12 1:52:40 PM by Kostya
Britain has Ofcom
*, Advertising Standards Authority
, and the Press Complaints Commission
, and I'm sure other countries have other similar regulatory bodies. And that's fairly normal for quite a few industries — almost every single one has a Regulator.
edited 17th Oct '12 2:05:39 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnOur lack of governmental regulation of media is a really big cultural thing. The laws protecting it were made during a time when the government shutting down presses that opposed them was fresh in everyone's memory. And then shortly after, Adams passed the Sedition Act, which sort of proved exactly why we needed that protection.
The problem is that these days, the situation has reversed. Government documents tend to be pretty solid and open to review, but the presses are run by huge transnational entities that can't be held accountable for anything.

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They call him rude, but when he wasnt interuppting mitt, they said he was spineless...
I'm baaaaaaack