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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Fair enough about the honesty, but I would still like to contest that even the news stations that didn't humor the hillary scandles, still potrayed Trump as an equal to her.
If your sure the honesty clause would prevent that I can agree, but it seems like.... kind of a risk of becoming a double edged sword.
A double edged sword would still be better than what we have now, considering everything that's happening.
Even if Trump gets his parade, I'm betting that most people who attend are going to be there to protest. I don't know if anyone would try to egg or TP it, but I imagine plenty would try. I don't see the parade being a success, and I don't see Trump even being able to spin it in a positive light like with the inauguration crowd if everyone comes to boo and throw tomatoes or whatever.
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the requirement isn’t that they treat candidates as equal to each other, but that on controversial issues they provide multiple points of view and do so accurately.
And everyone covered the Hillary scandals, even Comedy Central was at times granting the premis that Hillary was close to the second coming of Nixon.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Quite, I've seen zero credible evidence that it hurt her in any meaningful way. In the end of the day the only result was that it lead to some talking heads on CNN breathlessly talking about how terrible and mean it was <rolls eyes>
edited 6th Apr '18 9:24:07 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangCommunication is a skill and politics is also a hugely elaborate system that involves skill.
So it's possible to call someone racist in an unskilled manner, and thus it's a bad thing.
Most regular folk don't have to deal with being unskilled in their words because it's not their job.
Read my stories!If you are relying on the votes of either the racists or their friends than yes.
I agree that it was pretty minimal as far as things go, though obviously with how things ended up any minimal shift might have changed things.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

Nope, the contrasting views part also applies to smears against Dems, so they’d have to have devoted time to people saying Hillary did nothing wrong and not just people saying Hillary did bad shit. That would seriously have counteracted the smears against her.
Also there’s the added thing, the fairness doctrine doesn't just require equal time, it also requires honesty, a requirement for honesty would kill Fox News dead.
edited 6th Apr '18 8:06:27 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran